Do carpenters make more in Winston or Virginia Beach?

Virginia Beach pays more: the median is $49,940 in Winston and $51,500 in Virginia Beach, a 3% difference.

Carpenter salary in Winston, NC

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Winston–Salem, NC area earn a median of $49,940 a year, or $24.01 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $69,050 a year. Statewide, carpenters earn a median of $49,100; Winston is 2% above it.

Median yearly pay$49,940

Bottom 10% under$35,600Top 10% over$69,050

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $17.11/hr
Jobs in this area: 510
After cost of living: $54,260
Median hourly pay: $24.01/hr
vs U.S. median: −18%
vs North Carolina median: +2%
Mean (average) pay: $51,100 a year · $24.57 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 49180, Winston-Salem, NC). 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 Winston, NC 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	$17.11	$35,600
25th percentile	$20.95	$43,580
Median (50th)	$24.01	$49,940
75th percentile	$27.79	$57,790
90th percentile	$33.20	$69,050

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

How Winston, NC compares

Winston ranks 7th of 16 North Carolina metro areas for carpenter pay.
Carpenters are less concentrated in the Winston area than nationally: 1.9 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.44 times the U.S. share.

Other North Carolina metro areas

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Winston or Virginia Beach?: Virginia Beach pays more: the median is $49,940 in Winston and $51,500 in Virginia Beach, a 3% 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 49180 (Winston-Salem, NC). 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 (92.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures