Do roofers make more in Lincoln or Sioux City?

Lincoln pays more: the median is $47,360 in Lincoln and $47,050 in Sioux City, a 1% difference.

Roofer salary in Lincoln, NE

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Lincoln, NE area earn a median of $47,360 a year, or $22.77 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $60,240 a year. Across all of Nebraska, the median is $46,460, so Lincoln pays 2% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$47,360

Bottom 10% under$38,770Top 10% over$60,240

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $18.64/hr
Jobs in this area: 400
After cost of living: $51,710
Median hourly pay: $22.77/hr
vs U.S. median: −15%
vs Nebraska median: +2%
Mean (average) pay: $48,770 a year · $23.45 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 30700, Lincoln, NE). 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 Lincoln, NE 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	$18.64	$38,770
25th percentile	$19.06	$39,640
Median (50th)	$22.77	$47,360
75th percentile	$25.00	$52,000
90th percentile	$28.96	$60,240

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

How Lincoln, NE compares

Lincoln has the highest roofer median of the 4 Nebraska metro areas with published pay.
Roofers are more concentrated in the Lincoln area than nationally: 2.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.5 times the U.S. share.

Other Nebraska metro areas

Other trades in Lincoln, NE

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Questions

Do roofers make more in Lincoln or Sioux City?: Lincoln pays more: the median is $47,360 in Lincoln and $47,050 in Sioux City, a 1% 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 30700 (Lincoln, NE). 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 (91.6, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures