Do roofers make more in Portland or Bend?

Portland pays more: the median is $61,210 in Portland and $59,990 in Bend, a 2% difference.

Roofer salary in Portland, OR-WA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Portland–Vancouver–Hillsboro, OR-WA area earn a median of $61,210 a year, or $29.43 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $96,740. That's 4% more than the Oregon median of $58,970.

Median yearly pay$61,210

Bottom 10% under$48,520Top 10% over$96,740

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $23.33/hr
Jobs in this area: 2,280
After cost of living: $58,060
Median hourly pay: $29.43/hr
vs U.S. median: +10%
vs Oregon median: +4%
Mean (average) pay: $66,830 a year · $32.13 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 38900, Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA). 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 Portland, OR-WA 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	$23.33	$48,520
25th percentile	$24.33	$50,600
Median (50th)	$29.43	$61,210
75th percentile	$38.06	$79,170
90th percentile	$46.51	$96,740

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

How Portland, OR-WA compares

Portland has the highest roofer median of the 7 Oregon metro areas with published pay.
Roofers are more concentrated in the Portland area than nationally: 1.9 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.2 times the U.S. share.

Other Oregon metro areas

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Questions

Do roofers make more in Portland or Bend?: Portland pays more: the median is $61,210 in Portland and $59,990 in Bend, a 2% 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 38900 (Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA). 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 (105.4, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures