Do roofers make more in Tulsa or Fort Smith?

Tulsa pays more: the median is $49,350 in Tulsa and $44,230 in Fort Smith, a 12% difference.

Roofer salary in Tulsa, OK

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Tulsa, OK area earn a median of $49,350 a year, or $23.72 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $81,720. Across all of Oklahoma, the median is $43,680, so Tulsa pays 13% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$49,350

Bottom 10% under$32,050Top 10% over$81,720

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $15.41/hr
Jobs in this area: 350
After cost of living: $55,320
Median hourly pay: $23.72/hr
vs U.S. median: −11%
vs Oklahoma median: +13%
Mean (average) pay: $57,750 a year · $27.76 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 46140, Tulsa, 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 Tulsa, 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.

Percentile	Hourly	Yearly
10th percentile	$15.41	$32,050
25th percentile	$18.60	$38,680
Median (50th)	$23.72	$49,350
75th percentile	$39.29	$81,720
90th percentile	$39.29	$81,720

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

How Tulsa, OK compares

Tulsa has the highest roofer median of the 3 Oklahoma metro areas with published pay.
Roofers are less concentrated in the Tulsa area than nationally: 0.8 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.88 times the U.S. share.

Other Oklahoma metro areas

Other trades in Tulsa, OK

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Questions

Do roofers make more in Tulsa or Fort Smith?: Tulsa pays more: the median is $49,350 in Tulsa and $44,230 in Fort Smith, a 12% 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 46140 (Tulsa, 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 (89.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures