Do carpenters make more in Tulsa or Lawton?

Lawton pays more: the median is $46,810 in Tulsa and $50,400 in Lawton, a 7% difference.

Carpenter salary in Tulsa, OK

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Tulsa, OK area earn a median of $46,810 a year, or $22.51 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $60,350. Across all of Oklahoma, the median is $46,910, so Tulsa pays about the same as the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$46,810

Bottom 10% under$37,770Top 10% over$60,350

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $18.16/hr
Jobs in this area: 1,320
After cost of living: $52,470
Median hourly pay: $22.51/hr
vs U.S. median: −23%
vs Oklahoma median: 0%
Mean (average) pay: $48,610 a year · $23.37 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 46140, Tulsa, OK). 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 Tulsa, 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	$18.16	$37,770
25th percentile	$20.30	$42,230
Median (50th)	$22.51	$46,810
75th percentile	$25.03	$52,060
90th percentile	$29.02	$60,350

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

How Tulsa, OK compares

Tulsa ranks 3rd of 4 Oklahoma metro areas for carpenter pay.
Carpenters are less concentrated in the Tulsa area than nationally: 2.9 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.67 times the U.S. share.

Other Oklahoma metro areas

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Tulsa or Lawton?: Lawton pays more: the median is $46,810 in Tulsa and $50,400 in Lawton, a 7% 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 46140 (Tulsa, 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 (89.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures