Do roofers make more in Kennewick or Seattle?

Seattle pays more: the median is $59,760 in Kennewick and $64,090 in Seattle, a 7% difference.

Roofer salary in Kennewick, WA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Kennewick–Richland, WA area earn a median of $59,760 a year, or $28.73 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $95,930 a year. That's 1% less than the Washington median of $60,640.

Median yearly pay$59,760

Bottom 10% under$48,860Top 10% over$95,930

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $23.49/hr
Jobs in this area: 210
After cost of living: $59,710
Median hourly pay: $28.73/hr
vs U.S. median: +8%
vs Washington median: −1%
Mean (average) pay: $64,500 a year · $31.01 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 28420, Kennewick-Richland, 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 Kennewick, 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	$23.49	$48,860
25th percentile	$24.61	$51,200
Median (50th)	$28.73	$59,760
75th percentile	$36.65	$76,240
90th percentile	$46.12	$95,930

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

How Kennewick, WA compares

Kennewick ranks 4th of 12 Washington metro areas for roofer pay.
Roofers are more concentrated in the Kennewick area than nationally: 1.6 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.8 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do roofers make more in Kennewick or Seattle?: Seattle pays more: the median is $59,760 in Kennewick 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 28420 (Kennewick-Richland, 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 (100.1, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures