Do carpenters make more in Medford or Portland?

Portland pays more: the median is $57,930 in Medford and $73,710 in Portland, a 21% difference.

Carpenter salary in Medford, OR

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Medford, OR area earn a median of $57,930 a year, or $27.85 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $99,730. Across all of Oregon, the median is $62,870, so Medford pays 8% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$57,930

Bottom 10% under$39,790Top 10% over$99,730

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $19.13/hr
Jobs in this area: 910
After cost of living: $57,110
Median hourly pay: $27.85/hr
vs U.S. median: −4%
vs Oregon median: −8%
Mean (average) pay: $63,430 a year · $30.50 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 32780, Medford, 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 Medford, 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	$19.13	$39,790
25th percentile	$24.01	$49,940
Median (50th)	$27.85	$57,930
75th percentile	$35.12	$73,040
90th percentile	$47.95	$99,730

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

How Medford, OR compares

Medford ranks 6th of 8 Oregon metro areas for carpenter pay.
Carpenters are more concentrated in the Medford area than nationally: 10.3 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.4 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Medford or Portland?: Portland pays more: the median is $57,930 in Medford and $73,710 in Portland, a 21% 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 32780 (Medford, 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 (101.4, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures