Do roofers make more in Rochester or St. Cloud?

St. Cloud pays more: the median is $61,940 in Rochester and $79,250 in St. Cloud, a 22% difference.

Roofer salary in Rochester, MN

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Rochester, MN area earn a median of $61,940 a year, or $29.78 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $93,780 a year. That's 17% less than the Minnesota median of $74,490.

Median yearly pay$61,940

Bottom 10% under$40,970Top 10% over$93,780

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $19.70/hr
Jobs in this area: 90
After cost of living: $68,200
Median hourly pay: $29.78/hr
vs U.S. median: +12%
vs Minnesota median: −17%
Mean (average) pay: $66,690 a year · $32.06 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 40340, Rochester, MN). 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 Rochester, MN 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	$19.70	$40,970
25th percentile	$22.82	$47,470
Median (50th)	$29.78	$61,940
75th percentile	$41.27	$85,850
90th percentile	$45.09	$93,780

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

How Rochester, MN compares

Rochester ranks 4th of 8 Minnesota metro areas for roofer pay.
Roofers are less concentrated in the Rochester area than nationally: 0.7 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.82 times the U.S. share.

Other Minnesota metro areas

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Questions

Do roofers make more in Rochester or St. Cloud?: St. Cloud pays more: the median is $61,940 in Rochester and $79,250 in St. Cloud, a 22% 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 40340 (Rochester, MN). 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 (90.8, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures