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Carpenter salary in Glens Falls, NY

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Glens Falls, NY area earn a median of $58,560 a year, or $28.16 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $77,740. Across all of New York, the median is $72,330, so Glens Falls pays 19% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$58,560
Bottom 10% under$43,870Top 10% over$77,740
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$21.09/hr
Jobs in this area
300
After cost of living
$61,730
Median hourly pay
$28.16/hr
vs U.S. median
−3%
vs New York median
−19%
Mean (average) pay
$62,880 a year · $30.23 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 24020, Glens Falls, NY). 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 Glens Falls, NY 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.

PercentileHourlyYearly
10th percentile$21.09$43,870
25th percentile$24.17$50,280
Median (50th)$28.16$58,560
75th percentile$36.72$76,380
90th percentile$37.37$77,740

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

How Glens Falls, NY compares

  • Glens Falls ranks 12th of 13 New York metro areas for carpenter pay.
  • Carpenters are more concentrated in the Glens Falls area than nationally: 6.0 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.4 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Glens Falls or New York?
New York pays more: the median is $58,560 in Glens Falls and $74,300 in New York, a 21% 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 24020 (Glens Falls, NY). 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 (94.9, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures