Do roofers make more in Trenton or Atlantic City?

Trenton pays more: the median is $82,100 in Trenton and $77,990 in Atlantic City, a 5% difference.

Roofer salary in Trenton, NJ

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Trenton–Princeton, NJ area earn a median of $82,100 a year, or $39.47 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $96,490 a year. That's 7% more than the New Jersey median of $76,600.

Median yearly pay$82,100

Bottom 10% under$45,230Top 10% over$96,490

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $21.75/hr
Jobs in this area: 140
After cost of living: $79,570
Median hourly pay: $39.47/hr
vs U.S. median: +48%
vs New Jersey median: +7%
Mean (average) pay: $76,630 a year · $36.84 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 45940, Trenton-Princeton, NJ). 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 Trenton, NJ 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	$21.75	$45,230
25th percentile	$26.89	$55,920
Median (50th)	$39.47	$82,100
75th percentile	$45.35	$94,330
90th percentile	$46.39	$96,490

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

How Trenton, NJ compares

Trenton has the highest roofer median of the 5 New Jersey metro areas with published pay.
Roofers are less concentrated in the Trenton area than nationally: 0.6 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.66 times the U.S. share.

Other New Jersey metro areas

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Questions

Do roofers make more in Trenton or Atlantic City?: Trenton pays more: the median is $82,100 in Trenton and $77,990 in Atlantic City, a 5% 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 45940 (Trenton-Princeton, NJ). 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 (103.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures