Do roofers make more in Worcester or Springfield?

Worcester pays more: the median is $105,270 in Worcester and $76,300 in Springfield, a 38% difference.

Roofer salary in Worcester, MA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Worcester, MA area earn a median of $105,270 a year, or $50.61 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $106,290. That's 45% more than the Massachusetts median of $72,750.

Median yearly pay$105,270

Bottom 10% under$53,380Top 10% over$106,290

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $25.66/hr
Jobs in this area: 350
After cost of living: $102,680
Median hourly pay: $50.61/hr
vs U.S. median: +90%
vs Massachusetts median: +45%
Mean (average) pay: $85,350 a year · $41.04 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 49340, Worcester, 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 Worcester, 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	$25.66	$53,380
25th percentile	$28.54	$59,360
Median (50th)	$50.61	$105,270
75th percentile	$51.10	$106,290
90th percentile	$51.10	$106,290

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

How Worcester, MA compares

Worcester has the highest roofer median of the 5 Massachusetts metro areas with published pay.
Roofers are more concentrated in the Worcester area than nationally: 1.0 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.1 times the U.S. share.

Other Massachusetts metro areas

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Questions

Do roofers make more in Worcester or Springfield?: Worcester pays more: the median is $105,270 in Worcester and $76,300 in Springfield, a 38% 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 49340 (Worcester, 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 (102.5, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures