Do roofers make more in Corpus Christi or Waco?

Waco pays more: the median is $37,600 in Corpus Christi and $49,000 in Waco, a 23% difference.

Roofer salary in Corpus Christi, TX

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Corpus Christi, TX area earn a median of $37,600 a year, or $18.08 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $59,070. That's 18% less than the Texas median of $46,030.

Median yearly pay$37,600

Bottom 10% under$29,060Top 10% over$59,070

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $13.97/hr
Jobs in this area: 50
After cost of living: $40,570
Median hourly pay: $18.08/hr
vs U.S. median: −32%
vs Texas median: −18%
Mean (average) pay: $41,580 a year · $19.99 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 18580, Corpus Christi, TX). 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 Corpus Christi, TX 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	$13.97	$29,060
25th percentile	$16.60	$34,520
Median (50th)	$18.08	$37,600
75th percentile	$22.03	$45,820
90th percentile	$28.40	$59,070

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

How Corpus Christi, TX compares

Corpus Christi ranks 8th of 10 Texas metro areas for roofer pay.
Roofers are less concentrated in the Corpus Christi area than nationally: 0.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.29 times the U.S. share.

Other Texas metro areas

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Questions

Do roofers make more in Corpus Christi or Waco?: Waco pays more: the median is $37,600 in Corpus Christi and $49,000 in Waco, a 23% 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 18580 (Corpus Christi, TX). 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 (92.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures