Do roofers make more in Jackson or Flint?

Flint pays more: the median is $58,320 in Jackson and $70,760 in Flint, a 18% difference.

Roofer salary in Jackson, MI

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Jackson, MI area earn a median of $58,320 a year, or $28.04 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $75,900 a year. Across all of Michigan, the median is $59,530, so Jackson pays 2% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$58,320

Bottom 10% under$45,390Top 10% over$75,900

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $21.82/hr
Jobs in this area: 80
After cost of living: $63,540
Median hourly pay: $28.04/hr
vs U.S. median: +5%
vs Michigan median: −2%
Mean (average) pay: $60,030 a year · $28.86 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 27100, Jackson, MI). 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 Jackson, 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	$21.82	$45,390
25th percentile	$21.82	$45,390
Median (50th)	$28.04	$58,320
75th percentile	$36.49	$75,900
90th percentile	$36.49	$75,900

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

How Jackson, MI compares

Jackson ranks 6th of 11 Michigan metro areas for roofer pay.
Roofers are more concentrated in the Jackson area than nationally: 1.4 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.6 times the U.S. share.

Other Michigan metro areas

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Questions

Do roofers make more in Jackson or Flint?: Flint pays more: the median is $58,320 in Jackson and $70,760 in Flint, a 18% 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 27100 (Jackson, 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 (91.8, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures