Do carpenters make more in Laredo or Austin?

Austin pays more: the median is $41,540 in Laredo and $50,260 in Austin, a 17% difference.

Carpenter salary in Laredo, TX

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Laredo, TX area earn a median of $41,540 a year, or $19.97 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $55,160 a year. Across all of Texas, the median is $48,900, so Laredo pays 15% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$41,540

Bottom 10% under$31,710Top 10% over$55,160

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $15.25/hr
Jobs in this area: 100
After cost of living: $47,770
Median hourly pay: $19.97/hr
vs U.S. median: −31%
vs Texas median: −15%
Mean (average) pay: $43,380 a year · $20.86 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 29700, Laredo, TX). 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 Laredo, TX 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	$15.25	$31,710
25th percentile	$16.93	$35,210
Median (50th)	$19.97	$41,540
75th percentile	$24.22	$50,380
90th percentile	$26.52	$55,160

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

How Laredo, TX compares

Laredo ranks 22nd of 25 Texas metro areas for carpenter pay.
Carpenters are less concentrated in the Laredo area than nationally: 0.9 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.21 times the U.S. share.

Other Texas metro areas

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Laredo or Austin?: Austin pays more: the median is $41,540 in Laredo and $50,260 in Austin, a 17% 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 29700 (Laredo, TX). 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 (87.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures