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Roofer salary in Visalia, CA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Visalia, CA area earn a median of $59,160 a year, or $28.44 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $76,810 a year. That's 7% less than the California median of $63,600.

Median yearly pay$59,160
Bottom 10% under$48,710Top 10% over$76,810
Entry-level starting pay (estimate)
$23.42/hr
Jobs in this area
90
After cost of living
$59,260
Median hourly pay
$28.44/hr
vs U.S. median
+7%
vs California median
−7%
Mean (average) pay
$62,510 a year · $30.05 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 47300, Visalia, 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 Visalia, 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$23.42$48,710
25th percentile$28.18$58,610
Median (50th)$28.44$59,160
75th percentile$35.05$72,900
90th percentile$36.93$76,810

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

How Visalia, CA compares

  • Visalia has the lowest roofer median of the 22 California metro areas with published pay.
  • Roofers are less concentrated in the Visalia area than nationally: 0.5 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.59 times the U.S. share.

Other California metro areas

Other trades in Visalia, CA

Questions

Do roofers make more in Visalia or San Francisco?
San Francisco pays more: the median is $59,160 in Visalia and $74,340 in San Francisco, a 20% 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 47300 (Visalia, 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 (99.8, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures