TradeSalary

Roofer salary in Albuquerque, NM

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Albuquerque, NM area earn a median of $45,780 a year, or $22.01 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $76,600 a year. That's 1% more than the New Mexico median of $45,300.

Median yearly pay$45,780
Bottom 10% under$37,390Top 10% over$76,600
Entry-level starting pay (estimate)
$17.97/hr
Jobs in this area
710
After cost of living
$47,910
Median hourly pay
$22.01/hr
vs U.S. median
−17%
vs New Mexico median
+1%
Mean (average) pay
$49,390 a year · $23.75 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 10740, Albuquerque, NM). 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 Albuquerque, NM 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.

PercentileHourlyYearly
10th percentile$17.97$37,390
25th percentile$18.95$39,420
Median (50th)$22.01$45,780
75th percentile$27.96$58,150
90th percentile$36.83$76,600

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

How Albuquerque, NM compares

  • Albuquerque has the highest roofer median of the 4 New Mexico metro areas with published pay.
  • Roofers are more concentrated in the Albuquerque area than nationally: 1.8 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.0 times the U.S. share.

Other New Mexico metro areas

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Questions

Do roofers make more in Albuquerque or Santa Fe?
Albuquerque pays more: the median is $45,780 in Albuquerque and $45,090 in Santa Fe, a 2% 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 10740 (Albuquerque, NM). 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 (95.5, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures