Helpers--Roofers salary

SOC 47-3016 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$44,160

per year, nationally

Middle half

$37,030–$48,970

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

6,030

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+5.7%

600 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$30,140$62,400

10th: $30,140
25th: $37,030
Median: $44,160
75th: $48,970
90th: $62,400

Getting in

Typical education to enter: No formal educational credential
Related work experience: None
On-the-job training: Short-term on-the-job training

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where helpers--roofers earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Utah	$72,860	98.9	120	1.85×
2	Colorado	$55,860	103.1	—	—
3	California	$55,470	110.7	1,200	1.70×
4	Georgia	$47,610	96.3	—	—
5	Ohio	$46,600	92.8	490	2.29×
6	Virginia	$46,030	101.1	110	0.71×
7	Washington	$44,520	107.0	110	0.76×
8	Oregon	$44,330	103.4	70	0.97×
9	North Carolina	$44,120	94.3	270	1.41×
10	Louisiana	$43,680	88.2	70	0.95×
11	New Jersey	$42,670	108.8	—	—
12	Iowa	$42,650	87.8	—	—
13	Michigan	$41,750	96.2	—	—
14	Pennsylvania	$41,320	97.6	70	0.29×
15	Oklahoma	$38,950	87.8	70	0.99×
16	Texas	$38,430	97.1	590	1.09×
17	Tennessee	$38,380	91.9	160	1.23×
18	Florida	$38,350	103.4	1,240	3.21×
19	South Carolina	$37,860	93.7	40	0.50×
20	Alabama	$37,670	88.8	60	0.79×
21	New Mexico	$37,640	92.2	130	3.76×
22	Nevada	$37,430	100.0	30	0.52×
23	Arkansas	$35,950	86.9	110	2.27×
24	Missouri	$35,800	90.8	—	—
25	Maryland	$34,830	105.0	—	—
26	Mississippi	$31,090	87.0	—	—

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where helpers--roofers wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for helpers--roofers

The 17 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$58,090	110.4	100	2.37×
2	Salinas, CA	$55,470	109.0	30	4.19×
3	Fresno, CA	$51,170	102.2	50	2.89×
4	Canton-Massillon, OH	$50,430	89.4	30	5.11×
5	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$47,610	100.1	—	—
6	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$47,090	108.9	90	0.74×
7	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$46,780	112.6	130	0.36×
8	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$45,150	102.6	50	0.41×
9	Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC	$44,380	97.3	90	1.65×
10	Raleigh-Cary, NC	$44,130	98.2	70	2.33×
11	Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL	$41,690	114.2	330	2.99×
12	Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	$39,850	103.1	240	1.52×
13	Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL	$39,620	102.3	140	11.84×
14	Albuquerque, NM	$38,610	95.5	60	3.96×
15	Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX	$38,090	98.6	150	1.19×
16	Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL	$37,030	97.1	70	6.84×
17	Baton Rouge, LA	$36,560	90.8	30	1.98×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where helpers--roofers wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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