Do roofers make more in Gainesville or North Port?

North Port pays more: the median is $46,660 in Gainesville and $48,860 in North Port, a 5% difference.

Roofer salary in Gainesville, FL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Gainesville, FL area earn a median of $46,660 a year, or $22.43 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $61,680. That's 2% less than the Florida median of $47,590.

Median yearly pay$46,660

Bottom 10% under$30,950Top 10% over$61,680

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $14.88/hr
Jobs in this area: 340
After cost of living: $48,240
Median hourly pay: $22.43/hr
vs U.S. median: −16%
vs Florida median: −2%
Mean (average) pay: $46,640 a year · $22.42 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 23540, Gainesville, FL). 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 Gainesville, FL 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	$14.88	$30,950
25th percentile	$17.54	$36,480
Median (50th)	$22.43	$46,660
75th percentile	$26.91	$55,980
90th percentile	$29.66	$61,680

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

How Gainesville, FL compares

Gainesville ranks 14th of 18 Florida metro areas for roofer pay.
Roofers are more concentrated in the Gainesville area than nationally: 2.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.6 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do roofers make more in Gainesville or North Port?: North Port pays more: the median is $46,660 in Gainesville and $48,860 in North Port, a 5% 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 23540 (Gainesville, FL). 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 (96.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures