Do carpenters make more in Kingston or New York?

New York pays more: the median is $61,140 in Kingston and $74,300 in New York, a 18% difference.

Carpenter salary in Kingston, NY

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Kingston, NY area earn a median of $61,140 a year, or $29.40 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $89,100. Across all of New York, the median is $72,330, so Kingston pays 15% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$61,140

Bottom 10% under$45,690Top 10% over$89,100

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $21.96/hr
Jobs in this area: 280
After cost of living: $60,710
Median hourly pay: $29.40/hr
vs U.S. median: +1%
vs New York median: −15%
Mean (average) pay: $65,540 a year · $31.51 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 28740, Kingston, 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 Kingston, 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.

Percentile	Hourly	Yearly
10th percentile	$21.96	$45,690
25th percentile	$26.05	$54,180
Median (50th)	$29.40	$61,140
75th percentile	$36.33	$75,570
90th percentile	$42.84	$89,100

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

How Kingston, NY compares

Kingston ranks 7th of 13 New York metro areas for carpenter pay.
Carpenters hold about the same share of jobs in the Kingston area as nationally: 4.7 of every 1,000 jobs.

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Kingston or New York?: New York pays more: the median is $61,140 in Kingston and $74,300 in New York, a 18% 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 28740 (Kingston, 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 (100.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures