Do carpenters make more in Provo or Salt Lake City?

Salt Lake City pays more: the median is $53,230 in Provo and $59,870 in Salt Lake City, a 11% difference.

Carpenter salary in Provo, UT

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Provo–Orem–Lehi, UT area earn a median of $53,230 a year, or $25.59 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $74,600 a year. That's 2% more than the Utah median of $52,360.

Median yearly pay$53,230

Bottom 10% under$37,190Top 10% over$74,600

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $17.88/hr
Jobs in this area: 3,080
After cost of living: $54,190
Median hourly pay: $25.59/hr
vs U.S. median: −12%
vs Utah median: +2%
Mean (average) pay: $54,220 a year · $26.07 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 39340, Provo-Orem-Lehi, 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 Provo, 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	$17.88	$37,190
25th percentile	$21.92	$45,590
Median (50th)	$25.59	$53,230
75th percentile	$29.39	$61,120
90th percentile	$35.86	$74,600

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

How Provo, UT compares

Provo ranks 2nd of 5 Utah metro areas for carpenter pay.
Carpenters are more concentrated in the Provo area than nationally: 10.1 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.4 times the U.S. share.

Other Utah metro areas

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Provo or Salt Lake City?: Salt Lake City pays more: the median is $53,230 in Provo and $59,870 in Salt Lake City, a 11% 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 39340 (Provo-Orem-Lehi, 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 (98.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures