Carpenter salary in New York, NY-NJ
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Carpenters in the New York–Newark–Jersey City, NY-NJ area earn a median of $74,300 a year, or $35.72 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $123,810. That's 3% more than the New York median of $72,330.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $22.53/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 34,210
- After cost of living
- $66,010
- Median hourly pay
- $35.72/hr
- vs U.S. median
- +23%
- vs New York median
- +3%
- Mean (average) pay
- $80,560 a year · $38.73 an hour
Pay by percentile
What carpenters in New York, NY-NJ 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 | $22.53 | $46,860 |
| 25th percentile | $28.92 | $60,160 |
| Median (50th) | $35.72 | $74,300 |
| 75th percentile | $47.15 | $98,080 |
| 90th percentile | $59.52 | $123,810 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How New York, NY-NJ compares
- New York has the highest carpenter median of the 13 New York metro areas with published pay.
- Carpenters are less concentrated in the New York area than nationally: 3.6 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.84 times the U.S. share.
Other New York metro areas
Other trades in New York, NY-NJ
Questions
- Do carpenters make more in New York or Kiryas Joel?
- New York pays more: the median is $74,300 in New York and $63,540 in Kiryas Joel, a 17% 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 35620 (New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ). 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 (112.6, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures