Carpenter salary in Lawton, OK
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Carpenters in the Lawton, OK area earn a median of $50,400 a year, or $24.23 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $124,130. Across all of Oklahoma, the median is $46,910, so Lawton pays 7% more than the state as a whole.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $17.05/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 80
- After cost of living
- $58,640
- Median hourly pay
- $24.23/hr
- vs U.S. median
- −17%
- vs Oklahoma median
- +7%
- Mean (average) pay
- $61,110 a year · $29.38 an hour
Pay by percentile
What carpenters in Lawton, OK 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 | $17.05 | $35,460 |
| 25th percentile | $21.32 | $44,350 |
| Median (50th) | $24.23 | $50,400 |
| 75th percentile | $29.41 | $61,170 |
| 90th percentile | $59.68 | $124,130 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Lawton, OK compares
- Lawton has the highest carpenter median of the 4 Oklahoma metro areas with published pay.
- Carpenters are less concentrated in the Lawton area than nationally: 1.9 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.45 times the U.S. share.
Other Oklahoma metro areas
Other trades in Lawton, OK
Questions
- Do carpenters make more in Lawton or Oklahoma City?
- Lawton pays more: the median is $50,400 in Lawton and $48,940 in Oklahoma City, 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 30020 (Lawton, OK). 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 (85.9, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures