Miami-Dade County / Parks, Recreation & Open Spcs / Carpenter
Job-title file
Carry out the duties of this position in support of the agency's public mission.
11 employees hold this title in Parks, Recreation & Open Spcs. Median total compensation for the role is $90,309, above the department median of $46,398.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 11 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL area, the median wage for Carpenters — about 10,100 people — is $51,570. Parks, Recreation & Open Spcs pays a median base salary of $90,309 for this role, 75% above that figure — above the 90th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Carpenters across every employer in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Parks, Recreation & Open Spcs’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Carpenters — about 670,090 people — is $60,580. Parks, Recreation & Open Spcs’s median base salary is 49% above that national figure, about the 84th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Parks, Recreation & Open Spcs is $90,309, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare departments
Carpenter is held in 8 Miami-Dade County departments. In Parks, Recreation & Open Spcs, the median of $90,309 ranks #2 of 8.
Median total compensation for the Carpenter role in other Miami-Dade Countydepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 30 jurisdictions. In Miami-Dade County, the median of $83,077 ranks #12 of 30. See Carpenter across all of Miami-Dade County →
Median total compensation for comparable Carpenterroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
Record list
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Carpenter/Parks, Recreation & Open Spcs
Source-specific fields
Yency Llanes Ortega is a Carpenter at Parks, Recreation & Open Spcs within Mdc. 2026 total compensation came to $80,646.