Do carpenters make more in Lubbock or Austin?

Austin pays more: the median is $43,500 in Lubbock and $50,260 in Austin, a 13% difference.

Carpenter salary in Lubbock, TX

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Lubbock, TX area earn a median of $43,500 a year, or $20.91 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $59,970 a year. Across all of Texas, the median is $48,900, so Lubbock pays 11% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$43,500

Bottom 10% under$30,670Top 10% over$59,970

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $14.74/hr
Jobs in this area: 280
After cost of living: $47,640
Median hourly pay: $20.91/hr
vs U.S. median: −28%
vs Texas median: −11%
Mean (average) pay: $44,570 a year · $21.43 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 31180, Lubbock, 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 Lubbock, 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	$14.74	$30,670
25th percentile	$17.42	$36,230
Median (50th)	$20.91	$43,500
75th percentile	$23.78	$49,460
90th percentile	$28.83	$59,970

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

How Lubbock, TX compares

Lubbock ranks 17th of 25 Texas metro areas for carpenter pay.
Carpenters are less concentrated in the Lubbock area than nationally: 1.7 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.39 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Lubbock or Austin?: Austin pays more: the median is $43,500 in Lubbock and $50,260 in Austin, a 13% 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 31180 (Lubbock, 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 (91.3, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures