Do roofers make more in Bremerton or Seattle?

Seattle pays more: the median is $59,470 in Bremerton and $64,090 in Seattle, a 7% difference.

Roofer salary in Bremerton, WA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Bremerton–Silverdale–Port Orchard, WA area earn a median of $59,470 a year, or $28.59 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $98,680. That's 2% less than the Washington median of $60,640.

Median yearly pay$59,470

Bottom 10% under$47,430Top 10% over$98,680

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $22.80/hr
Jobs in this area: 170
After cost of living: $56,310
Median hourly pay: $28.59/hr
vs U.S. median: +7%
vs Washington median: −2%
Mean (average) pay: $65,640 a year · $31.56 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 14740, Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, 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 Bremerton, 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	$22.80	$47,430
25th percentile	$23.88	$49,680
Median (50th)	$28.59	$59,470
75th percentile	$38.19	$79,440
90th percentile	$47.44	$98,680

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

How Bremerton, WA compares

Bremerton ranks 6th of 12 Washington metro areas for roofer pay.
Roofers are more concentrated in the Bremerton area than nationally: 1.8 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.1 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do roofers make more in Bremerton or Seattle?: Seattle pays more: the median is $59,470 in Bremerton and $64,090 in Seattle, 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 14740 (Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, 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 (105.6, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures