Do roofers make more in Las Vegas or Reno?

Reno pays more: the median is $49,800 in Las Vegas and $52,000 in Reno, a 4% difference.

Roofer salary in Las Vegas, NV

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Las Vegas–Henderson–North Las Vegas, NV area earn a median of $49,800 a year, or $23.94 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $78,370. Across all of Nevada, the median is $51,090, so Las Vegas pays 3% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$49,800

Bottom 10% under$36,050Top 10% over$78,370

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $17.33/hr
Jobs in this area: 1,350
After cost of living: $49,690
Median hourly pay: $23.94/hr
vs U.S. median: −10%
vs Nevada median: −3%
Mean (average) pay: $55,910 a year · $26.88 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 29820, Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV). 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 Las Vegas, NV 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	$17.33	$36,050
25th percentile	$23.06	$47,970
Median (50th)	$23.94	$49,800
75th percentile	$30.58	$63,600
90th percentile	$37.68	$78,370

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

How Las Vegas, NV compares

Roofers are more concentrated in the Las Vegas area than nationally: 1.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.4 times the U.S. share.

Other Nevada metro areas

Reno$52,000

Other trades in Las Vegas, NV

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Questions

Do roofers make more in Las Vegas or Reno?: Reno pays more: the median is $49,800 in Las Vegas and $52,000 in Reno, a 4% 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 29820 (Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV). 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 (100.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures