Do carpenters make more in Utica or New York?

New York pays more: the median is $59,540 in Utica and $74,300 in New York, a 20% difference.

Carpenter salary in Utica, NY

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Utica–Rome, NY area earn a median of $59,540 a year, or $28.62 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $79,990. Statewide, carpenters earn a median of $72,330; Utica is 18% below it.

Median yearly pay$59,540

Bottom 10% under$44,440Top 10% over$79,990

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $21.37/hr
Jobs in this area: 380
After cost of living: $64,240
Median hourly pay: $28.62/hr
vs U.S. median: −2%
vs New York median: −18%
Mean (average) pay: $61,140 a year · $29.39 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 46540, Utica-Rome, 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 Utica, 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	$21.37	$44,440
25th percentile	$24.07	$50,060
Median (50th)	$28.62	$59,540
75th percentile	$34.34	$71,420
90th percentile	$38.46	$79,990

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

How Utica, NY compares

Utica ranks 10th of 13 New York metro areas for carpenter pay.
Carpenters are less concentrated in the Utica area than nationally: 3.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.74 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Utica or New York?: New York pays more: the median is $59,540 in Utica and $74,300 in New York, a 20% 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 46540 (Utica-Rome, 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 (92.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures