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Roofer salary in Boulder, CO

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Boulder, CO area earn a median of $56,140 a year, or $26.99 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $75,970. That's 8% more than the Colorado median of $51,750.

Median yearly pay$56,140
Bottom 10% under$47,820Top 10% over$75,970
Entry-level starting pay (estimate)
$22.99/hr
Jobs in this area
140
After cost of living
$53,360
Median hourly pay
$26.99/hr
vs U.S. median
+1%
vs Colorado median
+8%
Mean (average) pay
$56,850 a year · $27.33 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 14500, Boulder, CO). 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 Boulder, CO 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$22.99$47,820
25th percentile$23.08$48,010
Median (50th)$26.99$56,140
75th percentile$29.26$60,860
90th percentile$36.53$75,970

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

How Boulder, CO compares

  • Boulder has the highest roofer median of the 7 Colorado metro areas with published pay.
  • Roofers are less concentrated in the Boulder area than nationally: 0.7 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.85 times the U.S. share.

Other Colorado metro areas

Other trades in Boulder, CO

Questions

Do roofers make more in Boulder or Denver?
Boulder pays more: the median is $56,140 in Boulder and $55,830 in Denver, a 1% 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 14500 (Boulder, CO). 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 (105.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures