Do carpenters make more in Reno or Carson City?

Carson City pays more: the median is $62,350 in Reno and $63,660 in Carson City, a 2% difference.

Carpenter salary in Reno, NV

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Reno, NV area earn a median of $62,350 a year, or $29.98 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $96,900 a year. That's about the same as the Nevada median of $62,380.

Median yearly pay$62,350

Bottom 10% under$44,920Top 10% over$96,900

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $21.59/hr
Jobs in this area: 2,750
After cost of living: $61,720
Median hourly pay: $29.98/hr
vs U.S. median: +3%
vs Nevada median: 0%
Mean (average) pay: $67,270 a year · $32.34 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 39900, Reno, NV). Excludes self-employed carpenters. Cost of living: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024. *Starting pay is estimated from the 10th percentile; BLS does not report pay by license level.

Pay by percentile

What carpenters in Reno, 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	$21.59	$44,920
25th percentile	$24.10	$50,130
Median (50th)	$29.98	$62,350
75th percentile	$37.41	$77,810
90th percentile	$46.59	$96,900

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.

How Reno, NV compares

Reno has the lowest carpenter median of the 3 Nevada metro areas with published pay.
Carpenters are more concentrated in the Reno area than nationally: 10.0 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.3 times the U.S. share.

Other Nevada metro areas

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Reno or Carson City?: Carson City pays more: the median is $62,350 in Reno 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 39900 (Reno, 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 (101.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures