Roofer salary in Missoula, MT
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Roofers in the Missoula, MT area earn a median of $62,310 a year, or $29.96 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $69,900. Across all of Montana, the median is $59,030, so Missoula pays 6% more than the state as a whole.
- Entry-level starting pay (estimate)
- $20.61/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 60
- After cost of living
- $64,610
- Median hourly pay
- $29.96/hr
- vs U.S. median
- +12%
- vs Montana median
- +6%
- Mean (average) pay
- $57,190 a year · $27.49 an hour
Pay by percentile
What roofers in Missoula, MT 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 | $20.61 | $42,870 |
| 25th percentile | $22.78 | $47,390 |
| Median (50th) | $29.96 | $62,310 |
| 75th percentile | $32.14 | $66,840 |
| 90th percentile | $33.61 | $69,900 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Missoula, MT compares
- Missoula ranks 2nd of 4 Montana metro areas for roofer pay.
- Roofers hold about the same share of jobs in the Missoula area as nationally: 0.8 of every 1,000 jobs.
Other Montana metro areas
Other trades in Missoula, MT
Questions
- Do roofers make more in Missoula or Billings?
- Missoula pays more: the median is $62,310 in Missoula and $51,980 in Billings, a 20% 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 33540 (Missoula, MT). 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 (96.4, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures