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Roofer salary in Sioux City, IA-NE-SD

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Sioux City, IA-NE-SD area earn a median of $47,050 a year, or $22.62 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $64,720 a year. Across all of Iowa, the median is $48,660, so Sioux City pays 3% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$47,050
Bottom 10% under$38,400Top 10% over$64,720
Entry-level starting pay (estimate)
$18.46/hr
Jobs in this area
90
After cost of living
$54,420
Median hourly pay
$22.62/hr
vs U.S. median
−15%
vs Iowa median
−3%
Mean (average) pay
$48,730 a year · $23.43 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 43580, Sioux City, IA-NE-SD). 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 Sioux City, IA-NE-SD 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.

PercentileHourlyYearly
10th percentile$18.46$38,400
25th percentile$18.46$38,400
Median (50th)$22.62$47,050
75th percentile$27.56$57,330
90th percentile$31.11$64,720

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

How Sioux City, IA-NE-SD compares

  • Sioux City ranks 4th of 5 Iowa metro areas for roofer pay.
  • Roofers are more concentrated in the Sioux City area than nationally: 1.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.4 times the U.S. share.

Other Iowa metro areas

Other trades in Sioux City, IA-NE-SD

Questions

Do roofers make more in Sioux City or Des Moines?
Des Moines pays more: the median is $47,050 in Sioux City and $49,510 in Des Moines, 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 43580 (Sioux City, IA-NE-SD). 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 (86.5, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures