Do carpenters make more in Albany or Portland?

Portland pays more: the median is $57,080 in Albany and $73,710 in Portland, a 23% difference.

Carpenter salary in Albany, OR

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Albany, OR area earn a median of $57,080 a year, or $27.44 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $97,780. Statewide, carpenters earn a median of $62,870; Albany is 9% below it.

Median yearly pay$57,080

Bottom 10% under$45,690Top 10% over$97,780

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $21.97/hr
Jobs in this area: 340
After cost of living: $55,910
Median hourly pay: $27.44/hr
vs U.S. median: −6%
vs Oregon median: −9%
Mean (average) pay: $63,080 a year · $30.33 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 10540, Albany, OR). 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 Albany, OR 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	$21.97	$45,690
25th percentile	$23.75	$49,400
Median (50th)	$27.44	$57,080
75th percentile	$35.36	$73,550
90th percentile	$47.01	$97,780

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

How Albany, OR compares

Albany has the lowest carpenter median of the 8 Oregon metro areas with published pay.
Carpenters are more concentrated in the Albany area than nationally: 7.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.7 times the U.S. share.

Other Oregon metro areas

Other trades in Albany, OR

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Albany or Portland?: Portland pays more: the median is $57,080 in Albany and $73,710 in Portland, a 23% 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 10540 (Albany, OR). 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 (102.1, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures