Do roofers make more in Pueblo or Boulder?

Boulder pays more: the median is $46,490 in Pueblo and $56,140 in Boulder, a 17% difference.

Roofer salary in Pueblo, CO

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Pueblo, CO area earn a median of $46,490 a year, or $22.35 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $61,710. Across all of Colorado, the median is $51,750, so Pueblo pays 10% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$46,490

Bottom 10% under$43,140Top 10% over$61,710

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $20.74/hr
Jobs in this area: 50
After cost of living: $50,660
Median hourly pay: $22.35/hr
vs U.S. median: −16%
vs Colorado median: −10%
Mean (average) pay: $50,560 a year · $24.31 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 39380, Pueblo, 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 Pueblo, 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.

Percentile	Hourly	Yearly
10th percentile	$20.74	$43,140
25th percentile	$22.22	$46,210
Median (50th)	$22.35	$46,490
75th percentile	$24.34	$50,640
90th percentile	$29.67	$61,710

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

How Pueblo, CO compares

Pueblo has the lowest roofer median of the 7 Colorado metro areas with published pay.
Roofers are less concentrated in the Pueblo area than nationally: 0.8 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.87 times the U.S. share.

Other Colorado metro areas

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Questions

Do roofers make more in Pueblo or Boulder?: Boulder pays more: the median is $46,490 in Pueblo and $56,140 in Boulder, a 17% 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 39380 (Pueblo, 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 (91.8, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures