Do roofers make more in Yakima or Seattle?

Seattle pays more: the median is $56,660 in Yakima and $64,090 in Seattle, a 12% difference.

Roofer salary in Yakima, WA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Roofers in the Yakima, WA area earn a median of $56,660 a year, or $27.24 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $90,830. Across all of Washington, the median is $60,640, so Yakima pays 7% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$56,660

Bottom 10% under$47,750Top 10% over$90,830

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $22.96/hr
Jobs in this area: 160
After cost of living: $59,300
Median hourly pay: $27.24/hr
vs U.S. median: +2%
vs Washington median: −7%
Mean (average) pay: $61,930 a year · $29.78 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 49420, Yakima, 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 Yakima, 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	$22.96	$47,750
25th percentile	$26.89	$55,920
Median (50th)	$27.24	$56,660
75th percentile	$36.14	$75,170
90th percentile	$43.67	$90,830

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

How Yakima, WA compares

Yakima ranks 11th of 12 Washington metro areas for roofer pay.
Roofers are more concentrated in the Yakima area than nationally: 1.6 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.9 times the U.S. share.

Other Washington metro areas

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Questions

Do roofers make more in Yakima or Seattle?: Seattle pays more: the median is $56,660 in Yakima and $64,090 in Seattle, a 12% 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 49420 (Yakima, 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 (95.5, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures