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This guide uses the latest wage data for Carpenters, SOC 47-2031, along with North Dakota contractor requirements, registered apprenticeship information, state training programs, and construction safety credentials.
Last updated October 22, 2026. Rates are market estimates, not guarantees.
Hiring guide · North Dakota
Find qualified carpenters, verify contractor requirements, and connect with skilled candidates.
North Dakota carpenters build, repair, install, and finish framing, floors, doors, cabinets, forms, and trim. Strong candidates combine accurate measuring, blueprint reading, tool control, material knowledge, and safety. Use this guide to assess experience, verify requirements, find trained candidates, and compare hiring pathways statewide.
Candidate availability moves week to week. What does not move is the screening: the certifications below are what decide whether someone can be badged onto your site at all.
The levels are separated by what the state allows a person to do unsupervised, not by how good they are. Hiring the wrong level is the most common and most expensive mistake on a trade requisition.
Productive under supervision and cheap, but they cannot be left on a task the state licenses, and they need someone qualified with them.
Works unsupervised and can carry a helper. This is the level almost every requisition is actually describing.
Runs crews across sites, owns compliance outcomes, and where the trade allows, pulls permits and qualifies the work.
Budget $26.47 an hour for a qualified carpenter in North Dakota, from $23.47 at entry level to $36.90 at the top. Add a quarter to a third on top for payroll taxes, insurance and equipment, and price overtime at time and a half.
See the full carpenter salary guide →Check project value, contractor status, insurance, worker coverage, and jobsite requirements. For covered projects, keep license, insurance, WSI, and permit records accessible for project administration and inspection before crews mobilize or subcontractors begin work on site as needed.
Use these programs to connect with trained candidates.
Certificates get a candidate past the first filter. These are the questions that separate the ones who can do the work from the ones who have the paperwork, and they change by level.
Certifications listed with no issuing body or date
A licence described as 'in progress'
No supervisor anyone can call
Three or four employers inside a year
Long gaps with no explanation offered
Cards that lapsed and were never renewed
A realistic schedule for a certified carpenter, from writing the requisition to a badged start. The screening steps are where time is actually lost.
Use state market wages and project-specific prevailing wages.
Statewide carpenter median.
Statewide median benchmark.
Davis-Bacon carpenter base rate for specified counties.
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