Do carpenters make more in Sandusky or Columbus?

Columbus pays more: the median is $57,560 in Sandusky and $66,480 in Columbus, a 13% difference.

Carpenter salary in Sandusky, OH

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Sandusky, OH area earn a median of $57,560 a year, or $27.67 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $74,450. Across all of Ohio, the median is $60,810, so Sandusky pays 5% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$57,560

Bottom 10% under$37,810Top 10% over$74,450

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $18.18/hr
Jobs in this area: 140
After cost of living: $64,470
Median hourly pay: $27.67/hr
vs U.S. median: −5%
vs Ohio median: −5%
Mean (average) pay: $57,420 a year · $27.61 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 41780, Sandusky, OH). 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 Sandusky, OH 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	$18.18	$37,810
25th percentile	$22.68	$47,180
Median (50th)	$27.67	$57,560
75th percentile	$32.94	$68,520
90th percentile	$35.79	$74,450

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

How Sandusky, OH compares

Sandusky ranks 9th of 15 Ohio metro areas for carpenter pay.
Carpenters are less concentrated in the Sandusky area than nationally: 2.8 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.65 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Sandusky or Columbus?: Columbus pays more: the median is $57,560 in Sandusky and $66,480 in Columbus, a 13% 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 41780 (Sandusky, OH). 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 (89.3, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures