Carpenter salary in Las Vegas, NV
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Carpenters in the Las Vegas–Henderson–North Las Vegas, NV area earn a median of $62,380 a year, or $29.99 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $102,910 a year. Across all of Nevada, the median is $62,380, so Las Vegas pays about the same as the state as a whole.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $19.92/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 9,310
- After cost of living
- $62,250
- Median hourly pay
- $29.99/hr
- vs U.S. median
- +3%
- vs Nevada median
- 0%
- Mean (average) pay
- $69,690 a year · $33.51 an hour
Pay by percentile
What carpenters in Las Vegas, NV earn at each point of the pay range, May 2025: 10% earn less than the 10th percentile, half earn less than the median, and 10% earn more than the 90th.
| Percentile | Hourly | Yearly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $19.92 | $41,430 |
| 25th percentile | $24.25 | $50,440 |
| Median (50th) | $29.99 | $62,380 |
| 75th percentile | $39.81 | $82,800 |
| 90th percentile | $49.47 | $102,910 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Las Vegas, NV compares
- Las Vegas ranks 2nd of 3 Nevada metro areas for carpenter pay.
- Carpenters are more concentrated in the Las Vegas area than nationally: 8.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.9 times the U.S. share.
Other Nevada metro areas
Other trades in Las Vegas, NV
Questions
- Do carpenters make more in Las Vegas or Carson City?
- Carson City pays more: the median is $62,380 in Las Vegas and $63,660 in Carson City, a 2% difference.
About this data
Wages are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for May 2025, occupation 47-2031 (Carpenters), area code 29820 (Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed carpenters and business owners aren't included. The cost-of-living figure divides the median by the Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Price Parity for 2024 (100.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures