Do carpenters make more in Farmington or Albuquerque?

Albuquerque pays more: the median is $59,720 in Farmington and $60,080 in Albuquerque, a 1% difference.

Carpenter salary in Farmington, NM

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Farmington, NM area earn a median of $59,720 a year, or $28.71 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $71,870 a year. That's about the same as the New Mexico median of $59,720.

Median yearly pay$59,720

Bottom 10% under$42,430Top 10% over$71,870

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $20.40/hr
Jobs in this area: 390
After cost of living: $68,090
Median hourly pay: $28.71/hr
vs U.S. median: −1%
vs New Mexico median: 0%
Mean (average) pay: $56,390 a year · $27.11 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 22140, Farmington, NM). 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 Farmington, NM 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	$20.40	$42,430
25th percentile	$24.30	$50,550
Median (50th)	$28.71	$59,720
75th percentile	$29.42	$61,200
90th percentile	$34.55	$71,870

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

How Farmington, NM compares

Farmington ranks 2nd of 4 New Mexico metro areas for carpenter pay.
Carpenters are more concentrated in the Farmington area than nationally: 8.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.9 times the U.S. share.

Other New Mexico metro areas

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Farmington or Albuquerque?: Albuquerque pays more: the median is $59,720 in Farmington and $60,080 in Albuquerque, a 1% 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 22140 (Farmington, NM). 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 (87.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures