Statewide pay Government data
Roofers in Arizona earn a statewide median of $47,340 a year, 6% below the typical U.S. metro, ranking #39 of 50 states and DC. About 3,420 people work in the trade statewide.
Statewide pay range
States ranked near Arizona
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Pay by city Government data
BLS publishes roofer pay for 3 Arizona metros: Phoenix, Prescott Valley and Tucson.
| Metro | Median pay | Real pay | Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| PhoenixARIZONA · AZ | $47,760 | $46,227 | 2,700 |
| Prescott ValleyARIZONA · AZ | $46,030 | $46,847 | 140 |
| TucsonARIZONA · AZ | $44,040 | $45,451 | 340 |
Pay: BLS OEWS, May 2025 (metro-level). Real pay: BEA price parities, 2024. How we calculate
The job (national)
Cover roofs of structures with shingles, slate, asphalt, aluminum, wood, or related materials. May spray roofs, sidings, and walls with material to bind, seal, insulate, or soundproof sections of structures.
Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 5.3% from 2025 to 2035, with about 12,000 openings a year. Typical training: moderate-term on-the-job training.
Nationally, roofers have 162 injuries or illnesses serious enough to miss work per 10,000 full-time workers, 1.9× the rate for all jobs (87). The most common cause is falls, slips and trips.
What the work is like Government data
How often roofers deal with each condition, from surveys of workers in the job.
Getting started usually takes some preparation (high school plus months of training).
O*NET 31.0 Work Context and Job Zones (U.S. Department of Labor), national.
Serious injuries & deaths reported to OSHA Government data
Arizona runs its own workplace-safety program (an OSHA State Plan), so its injury reports aren't in the federal dataset. Nationally, in states federal OSHA covers, roofing contractors filed 1,408 severe injury reports from 2015 to 2024; the most common cause was falls, slips and trips (79%). OSHA also opened 7 fatality investigations at roofing contractors in Arizona over the same years (federal and state programs).
OSHA Severe Injury Reports, January 2015–December 2024 (states under federal OSHA only).
Fatality investigations: OSHA Fatality Inspection Data, events 2015–2024, all states.
Licensing in Arizona Official source
The main state licensing office in Arizona is the Arizona Registrar of Contractors. Licenses all trades by classification. It can point you to the right license for roofers.
Official Arizona licensing site ↗
Requirements for roofers vary by state and sometimes by city; always confirm with the official agency.
Union membership
In 2025, 4.1% of wage and salary workers in Arizona were union members, below the U.S. rate of about 10% (#45 of 51 states and D.C.), and 4.5% were covered by a union contract. These figures cover all jobs in the state, not only roofers.
BLS Union Members, 2025 (Current Population Survey), table 5.
Cities in Arizona
All trades in Arizona.