Do roofers make more in Ogden or St. George?

Ogden pays more: the median is $51,700 in Ogden and $49,620 in St. George, a 4% difference.

Roofer salary in Ogden, UT

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Ogden, UT area earn a median of $51,700 a year, or $24.86 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $64,520. Across all of Utah, the median is $48,680, so Ogden pays 6% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$51,700

Bottom 10% under$34,840Top 10% over$64,520

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $16.75/hr
Jobs in this area: 510
After cost of living: $51,520
Median hourly pay: $24.86/hr
vs U.S. median: −7%
vs Utah median: +6%
Mean (average) pay: $52,020 a year · $25.01 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 36260, Ogden, UT). 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 Ogden, UT 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	$16.75	$34,840
25th percentile	$21.64	$45,020
Median (50th)	$24.86	$51,700
75th percentile	$29.96	$62,310
90th percentile	$31.02	$64,520

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

How Ogden, UT compares

Ogden has the highest roofer median of the 5 Utah metro areas with published pay.
Roofers are more concentrated in the Ogden area than nationally: 1.9 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.1 times the U.S. share.

Other Utah metro areas

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Questions

Do roofers make more in Ogden or St. George?: Ogden pays more: the median is $51,700 in Ogden and $49,620 in St. George, a 4% 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 36260 (Ogden, UT). 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 (100.3, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures