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Roofer salary in Oklahoma City, OK

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Oklahoma City, OK area earn a median of $43,680 a year, or $21.00 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $60,800. That's about the same as the Oklahoma median of $43,680.

Median yearly pay$43,680
Bottom 10% under$30,800Top 10% over$60,800
Entry-level starting pay (estimate)
$14.81/hr
Jobs in this area
710
After cost of living
$48,310
Median hourly pay
$21.00/hr
vs U.S. median
−21%
vs Oklahoma median
0%
Mean (average) pay
$46,010 a year · $22.12 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 36420, Oklahoma City, OK). 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 Oklahoma City, OK 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$14.81$30,800
25th percentile$18.40$38,270
Median (50th)$21.00$43,680
75th percentile$23.74$49,380
90th percentile$29.23$60,800

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

How Oklahoma City, OK compares

  • Oklahoma City has the lowest roofer median of the 3 Oklahoma metro areas with published pay.
  • Roofers are more concentrated in the Oklahoma City area than nationally: 1.0 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.2 times the U.S. share.

Other Oklahoma metro areas

Other trades in Oklahoma City, OK

Questions

Do roofers make more in Oklahoma City or Tulsa?
Tulsa pays more: the median is $43,680 in Oklahoma City and $49,350 in Tulsa, a 11% 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 36420 (Oklahoma City, OK). 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 (90.4, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures