Do roofers make more in Duluth or St. Cloud?

St. Cloud pays more: the median is $72,860 in Duluth and $79,250 in St. Cloud, a 8% difference.

Roofer salary in Duluth, MN-WI

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Duluth, MN-WI area earn a median of $72,860 a year, or $35.03 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $90,040 a year. Across all of Minnesota, the median is $74,490, so Duluth pays 2% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$72,860

Bottom 10% under$47,110Top 10% over$90,040

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $22.65/hr
Jobs in this area: 240
After cost of living: $82,080
Median hourly pay: $35.03/hr
vs U.S. median: +31%
vs Minnesota median: −2%
Mean (average) pay: $71,410 a year · $34.33 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 20260, Duluth, MN-WI). 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 Duluth, MN-WI 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	$22.65	$47,110
25th percentile	$28.52	$59,320
Median (50th)	$35.03	$72,860
75th percentile	$43.29	$90,040
90th percentile	$43.29	$90,040

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

How Duluth, MN-WI compares

Duluth ranks 3rd of 8 Minnesota metro areas for roofer pay.
Roofers are more concentrated in the Duluth area than nationally: 1.9 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.2 times the U.S. share.

Other Minnesota metro areas

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Questions

Do roofers make more in Duluth or St. Cloud?: St. Cloud pays more: the median is $72,860 in Duluth and $79,250 in St. Cloud, a 8% 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 20260 (Duluth, MN-WI). 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 (88.8, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures