Do roofers make more in Lafayette or Baton Rouge?

Baton Rouge pays more: the median is $47,890 in Lafayette and $49,300 in Baton Rouge, a 3% difference.

Roofer salary in Lafayette, LA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Lafayette, LA area earn a median of $47,890 a year, or $23.03 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $79,040. That's 2% less than the Louisiana median of $48,760.

Median yearly pay$47,890

Bottom 10% under$36,660Top 10% over$79,040

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $17.62/hr
Jobs in this area: 80
After cost of living: $54,910
Median hourly pay: $23.03/hr
vs U.S. median: −14%
vs Louisiana median: −2%
Mean (average) pay: $52,630 a year · $25.30 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 29180, Lafayette, LA). 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 Lafayette, LA 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	$17.62	$36,660
25th percentile	$18.30	$38,060
Median (50th)	$23.03	$47,890
75th percentile	$27.38	$56,950
90th percentile	$38.00	$79,040

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

How Lafayette, LA compares

Lafayette has the lowest roofer median of the 4 Louisiana metro areas with published pay.
Roofers are less concentrated in the Lafayette area than nationally: 0.4 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.50 times the U.S. share.

Other Louisiana metro areas

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Questions

Do roofers make more in Lafayette or Baton Rouge?: Baton Rouge pays more: the median is $47,890 in Lafayette and $49,300 in Baton Rouge, 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 29180 (Lafayette, LA). 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 (87.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures