Precision Production
Woodworking
Prepares you to apply technical knowledge and skills to lay out and shape stock; assemble wooden articles or subassemblies; mark, bind, saw, carve, and sand wooden products; repair wooden articles, and use a variety of hand and power tools.
Inside the major
Programs within this field
Colleges may offer this field under 5 more specific program names. The program you choose affects the courses you take.
- Woodworking, General
- Prepares you to apply technical knowledge and skills to lay out and shape stock; assemble wooden articles or subassemblies; mark, bind, saw, carve, and sand wooden products; repair wooden articles, and use a variety of hand and power tools.
- Furniture Design and Manufacturing
- Prepares you to apply technical knowledge and skills to prepare and execute furniture design projects, assemble and finish furniture articles or subassemblies, repair furniture, and use a variety of hand and power tools.
- Cabinetmaking and Millwork
- Prepares you to apply technical knowledge and skills to set up, operate and repair industrial woodworking machinery, and to use such machinery to design and fabricate wooden components and complete articles.
- Wooden Boatbuilding Technology/Technician
- Prepares you to apply technical knowledge and skills to construct and repair traditional and modern wooden boats. Covers budgeting, drafting, fairing, lofting, joinery, planking, spars and rigging, and woodworking.
- Woodworking, Other
- Woodworking not listed above.
Also called Cabinetmaker, Joiner
Where it can lead
Careers this field can lead to
Explore related careers, starting with the closest connections and the occupations hiring the most people.
Woodworkers, All Other
- Median pay
- $44,530
- Hiring change through 2035
- −2.3%
- Job openings a year
- 1,700
To get hiredHigh school diploma or equivalent
Explore this career ShrinkingWoodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
- Median pay
- $43,380
- Hiring change through 2035
- −2.5%
- Job openings a year
- 5,300
To get hiredHigh school diploma or equivalent
Explore this career ShrinkingCabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters
- Median pay
- $46,680
- Hiring change through 2035
- −2.9%
- Job openings a year
- 6,900
To get hiredHigh school diploma or equivalent
Explore this career ShrinkingSawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood
- Median pay
- $42,770
- Hiring change through 2035
- −1.0%
- Job openings a year
- 4,500
To get hiredHigh school diploma or equivalent
Explore this career ShrinkingFurniture Finishers
- Median pay
- $44,540
- Hiring change through 2035
- −3.5%
- Job openings a year
- 1,500
To get hiredHigh school diploma or equivalent
Explore this career ShrinkingModel Makers, Wood
- Median pay
- $56,550
- Hiring change through 2035
- −3.3%
- Job openings a year
- 100
To get hiredHigh school diploma or equivalent
Explore this career ShrinkingPatternmakers, Wood
- Median pay
- $49,630
- Hiring change through 2035
- −2.0%
- Job openings a year
- 100
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.
Working style
How and where the work happens
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Most careers connected to this field involve in-person work. About 92 of every 100 openings require working close to other people or spending time on your feet.
College options
Where to study it
Ordered by how many degrees each college awards in this field. Sort by any numbered column.
| College | Degrees a year | Admit rate | Average annual cost after aid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island School of Design RI | 29 | 14% | — |
| SUNY Buffalo State University NY | 6 | 76% | $15,000 |