Do roofers make more in Springfield or Worcester?

Worcester pays more: the median is $76,300 in Springfield and $105,270 in Worcester, a 28% difference.

Roofer salary in Springfield, MA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Springfield, MA area earn a median of $76,300 a year, or $36.68 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $101,360 a year. Statewide, roofers earn a median of $72,750; Springfield is 5% above it.

Median yearly pay$76,300

Bottom 10% under$50,470Top 10% over$101,360

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $24.26/hr
Jobs in this area: 290
After cost of living: $79,430
Median hourly pay: $36.68/hr
vs U.S. median: +38%
vs Massachusetts median: +5%
Mean (average) pay: $74,950 a year · $36.03 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 44140, Springfield, MA). 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 Springfield, MA 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	$24.26	$50,470
25th percentile	$30.44	$63,320
Median (50th)	$36.68	$76,300
75th percentile	$39.95	$83,100
90th percentile	$48.73	$101,360

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

How Springfield, MA compares

Springfield ranks 2nd of 5 Massachusetts metro areas for roofer pay.
Roofers are more concentrated in the Springfield area than nationally: 1.4 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.6 times the U.S. share.

Other Massachusetts metro areas

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Questions

Do roofers make more in Springfield or Worcester?: Worcester pays more: the median is $76,300 in Springfield and $105,270 in Worcester, a 28% 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 44140 (Springfield, MA). 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 (96.1, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures