Do carpenters make more in Corvallis or Portland?

Portland pays more: the median is $63,290 in Corvallis and $73,710 in Portland, a 14% difference.

Carpenter salary in Corvallis, OR

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Corvallis, OR area earn a median of $63,290 a year, or $30.43 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $107,260. Statewide, carpenters earn a median of $62,870; Corvallis is 1% above it.

Median yearly pay$63,290

Bottom 10% under$48,610Top 10% over$107,260

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $23.37/hr
Jobs in this area: 260
After cost of living: $60,850
Median hourly pay: $30.43/hr
vs U.S. median: +4%
vs Oregon median: +1%
Mean (average) pay: $71,770 a year · $34.51 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 18700, Corvallis, 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 Corvallis, 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	$23.37	$48,610
25th percentile	$24.86	$51,700
Median (50th)	$30.43	$63,290
75th percentile	$47.58	$98,970
90th percentile	$51.57	$107,260

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

How Corvallis, OR compares

Corvallis ranks 2nd of 8 Oregon metro areas for carpenter pay.
Carpenters are more concentrated in the Corvallis area than nationally: 6.6 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.5 times the U.S. share.

Other Oregon metro areas

Other trades in Corvallis, OR

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Corvallis or Portland?: Portland pays more: the median is $63,290 in Corvallis and $73,710 in Portland, a 14% 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 18700 (Corvallis, 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 (104.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures