Do roofers make more in Atlanta or Savannah?

Atlanta pays more: the median is $49,100 in Atlanta and $48,740 in Savannah, a 1% difference.

Roofer salary in Atlanta, GA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Roswell, GA area earn a median of $49,100 a year, or $23.61 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $64,110. That's 5% more than the Georgia median of $46,940.

Median yearly pay$49,100

Bottom 10% under$33,560Top 10% over$64,110

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $16.13/hr
Jobs in this area: 1,440
After cost of living: $49,070
Median hourly pay: $23.61/hr
vs U.S. median: −11%
vs Georgia median: +5%
Mean (average) pay: $49,790 a year · $23.94 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 12060, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA). 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 Atlanta, GA 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	$16.13	$33,560
25th percentile	$19.19	$39,900
Median (50th)	$23.61	$49,100
75th percentile	$26.97	$56,090
90th percentile	$30.82	$64,110

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

How Atlanta, GA compares

Atlanta has the highest roofer median of the 6 Georgia metro areas with published pay.
Roofers are less concentrated in the Atlanta area than nationally: 0.5 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.57 times the U.S. share.

Other Georgia metro areas

Other trades in Atlanta, GA

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Questions

Do roofers make more in Atlanta or Savannah?: Atlanta pays more: the median is $49,100 in Atlanta and $48,740 in Savannah, 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 12060 (Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA). 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 (100.1, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures