Do carpenters make more in Roanoke or Washington?

Washington pays more: the median is $47,050 in Roanoke and $60,800 in Washington, a 23% difference.

Carpenter salary in Roanoke, VA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Roanoke, VA area earn a median of $47,050 a year, or $22.62 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $62,320. That's 16% less than the Virginia median of $55,690.

Median yearly pay$47,050

Bottom 10% under$32,280Top 10% over$62,320

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $15.52/hr
Jobs in this area: 830
After cost of living: $50,260
Median hourly pay: $22.62/hr
vs U.S. median: −22%
vs Virginia median: −16%
Mean (average) pay: $47,980 a year · $23.07 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 40220, Roanoke, VA). 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 Roanoke, VA 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	$15.52	$32,280
25th percentile	$19.19	$39,920
Median (50th)	$22.62	$47,050
75th percentile	$26.78	$55,700
90th percentile	$29.96	$62,320

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

How Roanoke, VA compares

Roanoke has the lowest carpenter median of the 11 Virginia metro areas with published pay.
Carpenters are more concentrated in the Roanoke area than nationally: 5.4 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.3 times the U.S. share.

Other Virginia metro areas

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Roanoke or Washington?: Washington pays more: the median is $47,050 in Roanoke and $60,800 in Washington, a 23% 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 40220 (Roanoke, VA). 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 (93.6, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures