Do carpenters make more in Eugene or Portland?

Portland pays more: the median is $62,590 in Eugene and $73,710 in Portland, a 15% difference.

Carpenter salary in Eugene, OR

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Eugene–Springfield, OR area earn a median of $62,590 a year, or $30.09 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $98,840. Across all of Oregon, the median is $62,870, so Eugene pays about the same as the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$62,590

Bottom 10% under$44,650Top 10% over$98,840

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $21.47/hr
Jobs in this area: 710
After cost of living: $61,620
Median hourly pay: $30.09/hr
vs U.S. median: +3%
vs Oregon median: 0%
Mean (average) pay: $65,630 a year · $31.55 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 21660, Eugene-Springfield, 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 Eugene, 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	$21.47	$44,650
25th percentile	$24.10	$50,140
Median (50th)	$30.09	$62,590
75th percentile	$35.05	$72,900
90th percentile	$47.52	$98,840

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

How Eugene, OR compares

Eugene ranks 3rd of 8 Oregon metro areas for carpenter pay.
Carpenters hold about the same share of jobs in the Eugene area as nationally: 4.5 of every 1,000 jobs.

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Eugene or Portland?: Portland pays more: the median is $62,590 in Eugene and $73,710 in Portland, a 15% 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 21660 (Eugene-Springfield, 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 (101.6, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures