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Roofer salary in Binghamton, NY

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Binghamton, NY area earn a median of $59,810 a year, or $28.75 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $79,010 a year. That's 9% less than the New York median of $66,020.

Median yearly pay$59,810
Bottom 10% under$36,610Top 10% over$79,010
Entry-level starting pay (estimate)
$17.60/hr
Jobs in this area
80
After cost of living
$64,410
Median hourly pay
$28.75/hr
vs U.S. median
+8%
vs New York median
−9%
Mean (average) pay
$58,930 a year · $28.33 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 13780, Binghamton, NY). 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 Binghamton, NY 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$17.60$36,610
25th percentile$23.14$48,140
Median (50th)$28.75$59,810
75th percentile$32.16$66,890
90th percentile$37.99$79,010

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

How Binghamton, NY compares

  • Binghamton ranks 9th of 10 New York metro areas for roofer pay.
  • Roofers hold about the same share of jobs in the Binghamton area as nationally: 0.8 of every 1,000 jobs.

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Questions

Do roofers make more in Binghamton or New York?
New York pays more: the median is $59,810 in Binghamton and $76,400 in New York, a 22% 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 13780 (Binghamton, NY). 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 (92.9, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures