Do roofers make more in Syracuse or New York?

New York pays more: the median is $61,480 in Syracuse and $76,400 in New York, a 20% difference.

Roofer salary in Syracuse, NY

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Syracuse, NY area earn a median of $61,480 a year, or $29.56 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $76,940. Across all of New York, the median is $66,020, so Syracuse pays 7% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$61,480

Bottom 10% under$48,510Top 10% over$76,940

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $23.32/hr
Jobs in this area: 270
After cost of living: $64,210
Median hourly pay: $29.56/hr
vs U.S. median: +11%
vs New York median: −7%
Mean (average) pay: $64,590 a year · $31.05 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 45060, Syracuse, 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 Syracuse, 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.

Percentile	Hourly	Yearly
10th percentile	$23.32	$48,510
25th percentile	$29.06	$60,450
Median (50th)	$29.56	$61,480
75th percentile	$35.80	$74,460
90th percentile	$36.99	$76,940

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

How Syracuse, NY compares

Syracuse ranks 5th of 10 New York metro areas for roofer pay.
Roofers hold about the same share of jobs in the Syracuse area as nationally: 0.9 of every 1,000 jobs.

Other New York metro areas

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Questions

Do roofers make more in Syracuse or New York?: New York pays more: the median is $61,480 in Syracuse and $76,400 in New York, a 20% 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 45060 (Syracuse, 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 (95.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures