Do carpenters make more in Minot or Fargo?

Pay is about the same: the median is $58,950 in Minot and $58,940 in Fargo.

Carpenter salary in Minot, ND

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Minot, ND area earn a median of $58,950 a year, or $28.34 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $76,960. Across all of North Dakota, the median is $57,890, so Minot pays 2% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$58,950

Bottom 10% under$36,730Top 10% over$76,960

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $17.66/hr
Jobs in this area: 160
After cost of living: $67,740
Median hourly pay: $28.34/hr
vs U.S. median: −3%
vs North Dakota median: +2%
Mean (average) pay: $56,990 a year · $27.40 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 33500, Minot, ND). 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 Minot, ND 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	$17.66	$36,730
25th percentile	$23.36	$48,580
Median (50th)	$28.34	$58,950
75th percentile	$30.29	$62,990
90th percentile	$37.00	$76,960

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

How Minot, ND compares

Minot has the highest carpenter median of the 4 North Dakota metro areas with published pay.
Carpenters are more concentrated in the Minot area than nationally: 4.7 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.1 times the U.S. share.

Other North Dakota metro areas

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Minot or Fargo?: Pay is about the same: the median is $58,950 in Minot and $58,940 in Fargo.

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 33500 (Minot, ND). 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 (87.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures