Woodworkers Pay Salary

The median hourly wage of woodworkers was $13.47 in May 2010. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $8.94, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $20.56.

Median hourly wages for woodworker occupations in May 2010 were the following:

• $14.48 for cabinetmakers and bench carpenter
• $13.37 for furniture finishers
• $12.75 for woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing
• $12.59 for sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood
• $11.79 for all other woodworkers

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2012-13 Edition