Exactly 2,910 of the 8,720 carpentry professionals employed in Kentucky, work in Louisville. The number of carpentry professionals in Louisville has shrunk by 26% from 2006 to 2010. As the employment for carpentry professionals in Louisville has decreased, overall employment in Louisville has increased.

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As the number of carpentry professionals in Louisville has shrunk, salaries for carpentry professionals have increased. In 2010 Louisville carpentry professionals earned an average yearly salary of $52,920. Carpentry professionals in Louisville made a yearly average salary of $43,980, four years earlier in 2006. The growth in the salary of carpentry professionals in Louisville is faster than the salary trend for all careers in the city.

Carpentry professionals make a median salary of $49,105 per year in Louisville. The difference in pay between the carpentry professionals in the lowest pay bracket and those in the highest pay bracket is approximately 167%. Those in the lowest 10% of the pay bracket earn less than $30,760 per year, while those in the highest 10% of the pay bracket earn more than $82,205 per year.

On average carpentry professionals in Louisville earn salaries that are lower than the salaries earned by other professionals in Louisville.

There is only one accredited carpentry school in the city. Many of Louisville's carpentry professionals are graduates of this school.

Louisville's carpentry schools offer 2 carpentry degree and certificate programs.

Approximately 334 students completed carpentry courses in 2010.