Roofer salary in Flint, MI
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Roofers in the Flint, MI area earn a median of $70,760 a year, or $34.02 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $73,690. Statewide, roofers earn a median of $59,530; Flint is 19% above it.
- Entry-level starting pay (estimate)
- $22.00/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 120
- After cost of living
- $76,060
- Median hourly pay
- $34.02/hr
- vs U.S. median
- +28%
- vs Michigan median
- +19%
- Mean (average) pay
- $61,500 a year · $29.57 an hour
Pay by percentile
What roofers in Flint, MI 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 | $22.00 | $45,760 |
| 25th percentile | $22.00 | $45,760 |
| Median (50th) | $34.02 | $70,760 |
| 75th percentile | $34.02 | $70,760 |
| 90th percentile | $35.43 | $73,690 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Flint, MI compares
- Flint has the highest roofer median of the 11 Michigan metro areas with published pay.
- Roofers hold about the same share of jobs in the Flint area as nationally: 0.9 of every 1,000 jobs.
Other Michigan metro areas
Other trades in Flint, MI
Questions
- Do roofers make more in Flint or Detroit?
- Flint pays more: the median is $70,760 in Flint and $63,390 in Detroit, a 12% 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 22420 (Flint, MI). 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 (93.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures