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Roofer salary in Santa Rosa, CA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Santa Rosa–Petaluma, CA area earn a median of $64,020 a year, or $30.78 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $105,950. That's 1% more than the California median of $63,600.

Median yearly pay$64,020
Bottom 10% under$49,130Top 10% over$105,950
Entry-level starting pay (estimate)
$23.62/hr
Jobs in this area
430
After cost of living
$59,400
Median hourly pay
$30.78/hr
vs U.S. median
+15%
vs California median
+1%
Mean (average) pay
$69,890 a year · $33.60 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 42220, Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA). 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 Santa Rosa, CA 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$23.62$49,130
25th percentile$29.84$62,060
Median (50th)$30.78$64,020
75th percentile$36.51$75,940
90th percentile$50.94$105,950

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

How Santa Rosa, CA compares

  • Santa Rosa ranks 3rd of 22 California metro areas for roofer pay.
  • Roofers are more concentrated in the Santa Rosa area than nationally: 2.1 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.4 times the U.S. share.

Other California metro areas

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Questions

Do roofers make more in Santa Rosa or San Francisco?
San Francisco pays more: the median is $64,020 in Santa Rosa and $74,340 in San Francisco, a 14% 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 42220 (Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA). 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 (107.8, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures