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Roofer salary in Mobile, AL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Mobile, AL area earn a median of $45,540 a year, or $21.90 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $58,700. That's about the same as the Alabama median of $45,670.

Median yearly pay$45,540
Bottom 10% under$36,680Top 10% over$58,700
Entry-level starting pay (estimate)
$17.64/hr
Jobs in this area
120
After cost of living
$51,690
Median hourly pay
$21.90/hr
vs U.S. median
−18%
vs Alabama median
0%
Mean (average) pay
$46,350 a year · $22.29 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 33660, Mobile, AL). Excludes self-employed roofers. Cost of living: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024. *Starting pay is estimated from the 10th percentile; BLS does not report pay by license level.

Pay by percentile

What roofers in Mobile, AL earn at each point of the pay range, May 2025: 10% earn less than the 10th percentile, half earn less than the median, and 10% earn more than the 90th.

PercentileHourlyYearly
10th percentile$17.64$36,680
25th percentile$18.90$39,320
Median (50th)$21.90$45,540
75th percentile$22.23$46,230
90th percentile$28.22$58,700

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.

How Mobile, AL compares

  • Mobile ranks 3rd of 4 Alabama metro areas for roofer pay.
  • Roofers are less concentrated in the Mobile area than nationally: 0.7 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.83 times the U.S. share.

Other Alabama metro areas

Other trades in Mobile, AL

Questions

Do roofers make more in Mobile or Birmingham?
Birmingham pays more: the median is $45,540 in Mobile and $46,600 in Birmingham, a 2% difference.

About this data

Wages are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for May 2025, occupation 47-2181 (Roofers), area code 33660 (Mobile, AL). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed roofers and business owners aren't included. The cost-of-living figure divides the median by the Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Price Parity for 2024 (88.1, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures