Do roofers make more in Pocatello or Boise City?

Boise City pays more: the median is $58,480 in Pocatello and $60,100 in Boise City, a 3% difference.

Roofer salary in Pocatello, ID

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Pocatello, ID area earn a median of $58,480 a year, or $28.12 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $62,680. Across all of Idaho, the median is $57,790, so Pocatello pays 1% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$58,480

Bottom 10% under$35,390Top 10% over$62,680

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $17.02/hr
Jobs in this area: 50
After cost of living: $65,780
Median hourly pay: $28.12/hr
vs U.S. median: +5%
vs Idaho median: +1%
Mean (average) pay: $52,680 a year · $25.33 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 38540, Pocatello, 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 Pocatello, 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	$17.02	$35,390
25th percentile	$21.50	$44,710
Median (50th)	$28.12	$58,480
75th percentile	$29.68	$61,720
90th percentile	$30.13	$62,680

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

How Pocatello, ID compares

Pocatello ranks 2nd of 5 Idaho metro areas for roofer pay.
Roofers are more concentrated in the Pocatello area than nationally: 1.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.4 times the U.S. share.

Other Idaho metro areas

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Questions

Do roofers make more in Pocatello or Boise City?: Boise City pays more: the median is $58,480 in Pocatello and $60,100 in Boise City, a 3% 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 38540 (Pocatello, 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 (88.9, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures