Do roofers make more in Houston or Waco?

Waco pays more: the median is $45,500 in Houston and $49,000 in Waco, a 7% difference.

Roofer salary in Houston, TX

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Houston–Pasadena–The Woodlands, TX area earn a median of $45,500 a year, or $21.87 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $59,080 a year. Statewide, roofers earn a median of $46,030; Houston is 1% below it.

Median yearly pay$45,500

Bottom 10% under$34,070Top 10% over$59,080

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $16.38/hr
Jobs in this area: 1,230
After cost of living: $46,130
Median hourly pay: $21.87/hr
vs U.S. median: −18%
vs Texas median: −1%
Mean (average) pay: $46,130 a year · $22.18 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 26420, Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, 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 Houston, 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	$16.38	$34,070
25th percentile	$17.84	$37,100
Median (50th)	$21.87	$45,500
75th percentile	$24.37	$50,690
90th percentile	$28.41	$59,080

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

How Houston, TX compares

Houston ranks 5th of 10 Texas metro areas for roofer pay.
Roofers are less concentrated in the Houston area than nationally: 0.4 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.43 times the U.S. share.

Other Texas metro areas

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Questions

Do roofers make more in Houston or Waco?: Waco pays more: the median is $45,500 in Houston and $49,000 in Waco, a 7% 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 26420 (Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, 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 (98.6, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures