TradeSalary

Roofer salary in Las Cruces, NM

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Las Cruces, NM area earn a median of $39,070 a year, or $18.78 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $55,760 a year. Across all of New Mexico, the median is $45,300, so Las Cruces pays 14% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$39,070
Bottom 10% under$29,260Top 10% over$55,760
Entry-level starting pay (estimate)
$14.07/hr
Jobs in this area
50
After cost of living
$43,310
Median hourly pay
$18.78/hr
vs U.S. median
−30%
vs New Mexico median
−14%
Mean (average) pay
$41,160 a year · $19.79 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 29740, Las Cruces, 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 Las Cruces, 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$14.07$29,260
25th percentile$18.08$37,600
Median (50th)$18.78$39,070
75th percentile$20.94$43,540
90th percentile$26.81$55,760

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

How Las Cruces, NM compares

  • Las Cruces has the lowest roofer median of the 4 New Mexico metro areas with published pay.
  • Roofers are less concentrated in the Las Cruces area than nationally: 0.6 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.69 times the U.S. share.

Other New Mexico metro areas

Other trades in Las Cruces, NM

Questions

Do roofers make more in Las Cruces or Albuquerque?
Albuquerque pays more: the median is $39,070 in Las Cruces and $45,780 in Albuquerque, a 15% 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 29740 (Las Cruces, 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 (90.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures