Do roofers make more in Idaho Falls or Boise City?

Boise City pays more: the median is $55,690 in Idaho Falls and $60,100 in Boise City, a 7% difference.

Roofer salary in Idaho Falls, ID

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Idaho Falls, ID area earn a median of $55,690 a year, or $26.77 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $65,440. Across all of Idaho, the median is $57,790, so Idaho Falls pays 4% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$55,690

Bottom 10% under$35,780Top 10% over$65,440

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $17.20/hr
Jobs in this area: 130
After cost of living: $58,990
Median hourly pay: $26.77/hr
vs U.S. median: 0%
vs Idaho median: −4%
Mean (average) pay: $52,260 a year · $25.13 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 26820, Idaho Falls, ID). 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 Idaho Falls, ID 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	$17.20	$35,780
25th percentile	$19.28	$40,100
Median (50th)	$26.77	$55,690
75th percentile	$29.65	$61,670
90th percentile	$31.46	$65,440

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

How Idaho Falls, ID compares

Idaho Falls ranks 3rd of 5 Idaho metro areas for roofer pay.
Roofers are more concentrated in the Idaho Falls area than nationally: 1.6 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.9 times the U.S. share.

Other Idaho metro areas

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Questions

Do roofers make more in Idaho Falls or Boise City?: Boise City pays more: the median is $55,690 in Idaho Falls and $60,100 in Boise City, a 7% 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 26820 (Idaho Falls, ID). 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 (94.4, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures