Do roofers make more in Lexington or Cincinnati?

Cincinnati pays more: the median is $46,630 in Lexington and $49,210 in Cincinnati, a 5% difference.

Roofer salary in Lexington, KY

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Lexington–Fayette, KY area earn a median of $46,630 a year, or $22.42 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $65,090 a year. That's 1% less than the Kentucky median of $46,940.

Median yearly pay$46,630

Bottom 10% under$39,160Top 10% over$65,090

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $18.83/hr
Jobs in this area: 230
After cost of living: $50,200
Median hourly pay: $22.42/hr
vs U.S. median: −16%
vs Kentucky median: −1%
Mean (average) pay: $51,060 a year · $24.55 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 30460, Lexington-Fayette, KY). 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 Lexington, KY 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	$18.83	$39,160
25th percentile	$21.57	$44,860
Median (50th)	$22.42	$46,630
75th percentile	$26.49	$55,110
90th percentile	$31.29	$65,090

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

How Lexington, KY compares

Lexington has the lowest roofer median of the 5 Kentucky metro areas with published pay.
Roofers hold about the same share of jobs in the Lexington area as nationally: 0.8 of every 1,000 jobs.

Other Kentucky metro areas

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Questions

Do roofers make more in Lexington or Cincinnati?: Cincinnati pays more: the median is $46,630 in Lexington and $49,210 in Cincinnati, 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 30460 (Lexington-Fayette, KY). 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 (92.9, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures