Construction Trades
Carpenters
Prepares you to apply technical knowledge and skills to lay out, cut, fabricate, erect, install, and repair wooden structures and fixtures, using hand and power tools. Covers technical mathematics, framing, construction materials and selection, job estimating, blueprint reading, foundations and roughing-in, finish carpentry techniques, and applicable codes and standards.
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- Carpentry/Carpenter
- Prepares you to apply technical knowledge and skills to lay out, cut, fabricate, erect, install, and repair wooden structures and fixtures, using hand and power tools. Covers technical mathematics, framing, construction materials and selection, job estimating, blueprint reading, foundations and roughing-in, finish carpentry techniques, and applicable codes and standards.
Also called General Carpenter
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First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers
- Median pay
- $79,920
- Hiring change through 2035
- 5.0%
- Job openings a year
- 67,000
To get hiredHigh school diploma or equivalent
Explore this career Growing with the economyCarpenters
- Median pay
- $60,580
- Hiring change through 2035
- 3.9%
- Job openings a year
- 62,800
To get hiredHigh school diploma or equivalent
Explore this careerAll work is projected to grow 3.5% between 2025 and 2035; read every hiring-change figure against it.
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This field leads to a mix of in-person and computer-based work. About 48 of every 100 openings require working close to other people or spending time on your feet.