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Roofer salary in Salt Lake City, UT

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Salt Lake City–Murray, UT area earn a median of $48,220 a year, or $23.18 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $72,070 a year. Across all of Utah, the median is $48,680, so Salt Lake City pays 1% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$48,220
Bottom 10% under$35,090Top 10% over$72,070
Entry-level starting pay (estimate)
$16.87/hr
Jobs in this area
1,330
After cost of living
$47,810
Median hourly pay
$23.18/hr
vs U.S. median
−13%
vs Utah median
−1%
Mean (average) pay
$52,810 a year · $25.39 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 41620, Salt Lake City-Murray, 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 Salt Lake City, 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.

PercentileHourlyYearly
10th percentile$16.87$35,090
25th percentile$21.94$45,640
Median (50th)$23.18$48,220
75th percentile$29.71$61,790
90th percentile$34.65$72,070

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

How Salt Lake City, UT compares

  • Salt Lake City ranks 3rd of 5 Utah metro areas for roofer pay.
  • Roofers are more concentrated in the Salt Lake City area than nationally: 1.6 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.9 times the U.S. share.

Other Utah metro areas

Other trades in Salt Lake City, UT

Questions

Do roofers make more in Salt Lake City or Ogden?
Ogden pays more: the median is $48,220 in Salt Lake City and $51,700 in Ogden, 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 41620 (Salt Lake City-Murray, 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 (100.9, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures