Do carpenters make more in Ogden or Salt Lake City?

Salt Lake City pays more: the median is $48,270 in Ogden and $59,870 in Salt Lake City, a 19% difference.

Carpenter salary in Ogden, UT

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Ogden, UT area earn a median of $48,270 a year, or $23.21 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $75,430. Across all of Utah, the median is $52,360, so Ogden pays 8% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$48,270

Bottom 10% under$33,860Top 10% over$75,430

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $16.28/hr
Jobs in this area: 2,150
After cost of living: $48,100
Median hourly pay: $23.21/hr
vs U.S. median: −20%
vs Utah median: −8%
Mean (average) pay: $53,150 a year · $25.55 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 36260, Ogden, UT). 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 Ogden, UT 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	$16.28	$33,860
25th percentile	$21.46	$44,630
Median (50th)	$23.21	$48,270
75th percentile	$29.31	$60,960
90th percentile	$36.27	$75,430

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

How Ogden, UT compares

Ogden ranks 4th of 5 Utah metro areas for carpenter pay.
Carpenters are more concentrated in the Ogden area than nationally: 7.9 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.8 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Ogden or Salt Lake City?: Salt Lake City pays more: the median is $48,270 in Ogden and $59,870 in Salt Lake City, a 19% 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 36260 (Ogden, UT). 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 (100.3, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures