How much does roof replacement labor cost in Phoenix?

Working from BLS Phoenix wage data with a 2x to 3x contractor overhead multiplier, a typical tear-off-and-reroof crew's labor bill runs roughly $2,900 to $9,200, depending on crew size, hours on the roof, and how the contractor prices overhead. This is labor only — materials, permits, and disposal are separate.

Are Phoenix roofers paid more or less than the national average?

Less. The median Phoenix roofer wage is $22.96/hr against a $26.65/hr national median, a gap of $3.69/hr or 13.8%. Statewide Arizona sits close behind Phoenix at $22.76/hr median, so the gap is regional, not just metro-specific.

Why isn't the material cost in this article a dollar figure?

The only material data available here is the BLS Producer Price Index for roofing products, which tracks an index level (1982=100), not a retail dollar price. The index was up 3.6% year over year in July 2026, which tells you direction and speed of change, not a price you can pay a supplier.

What's the single question that exposes a padded roofing quote?

Ask the contractor to break out labor hours and crew size separately from materials and markup. A contractor who can't or won't state hours × crew × hourly rate as its own line, distinct from material cost and profit margin, is pricing off a gut number rather than a calculation you can check.

What Roof Replacement Labor Actually Costs in Phoenix

Based on BLS wage data for Phoenix roofers, run through a standard 2x-to-3x contractor overhead multiplier, labor on a typical residential tear-off-and-reroof runs roughly $2,900 to $9,200. That figure is labor only. Materials, permits, disposal, and any roof-specific difficulty are not in it, and are addressed separately below.

The wage data this is built on

This is not a survey of what contractors charge. It’s the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics for Roofers (SOC 47-2181), which reports what roofers are actually paid, by percentile, in the Phoenix metro area for 2025.

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Geography	25th pct	Median	75th pct	Mean	Employed
United States	$22.24/hr	$26.65/hr	$31.44/hr	$27.95/hr	135,490
Arizona statewide	$19.16/hr	$22.76/hr	$28.43/hr	$24.33/hr	3,420
Phoenix, AZ	$21.74/hr	$22.96/hr	$28.80/hr	$24.86/hr	2,700

Crew supervision runs separately. First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers in Phoenix earn a median $38.38/hr, per the same BLS OEWS series. A reroof crew big enough to need a foreman is paying that rate for at least part of the job.

Wage is not price

The numbers above are what a worker takes home per hour, not what shows up on your invoice. A contractor billing you the bare median wage would be losing money on payroll taxes, workers’ comp, general liability insurance, vehicles, fuel, tools, office overhead, warranty reserve, and profit before the crew even climbs the ladder.

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The standard working assumption for small residential contractors is a 2x to 3x burden multiplier on the base wage to cover all of that. This is an industry rule of thumb, not a measured BLS figure — flag it as an assumption every time you see it, including here. The calculation below shows both ends of that range so you can see how much the multiplier alone moves the final number.

The labor cost build-up

A typical residential asphalt-shingle tear-off and reroof needs a crew, not one person, and takes more than a few hours. The scenario below uses two crew/hour combinations to bracket a realistic low and high case. Both are stated assumptions, not sourced job-duration data — BLS doesn’t publish hours-per-job for roofing.

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Low-side scenario: 3 roofers at the Phoenix 25th percentile wage, 1 supervisor, 14 hours on the roof, 2x burden multiplier.

High-side scenario: 4 roofers at the Phoenix 75th percentile wage, 1 supervisor, 20 hours on the roof, 3x burden multiplier.

Line item	Low scenario	High scenario
Roofer hourly wage (Phoenix)	$21.74/hr (25th pct)	$28.80/hr (75th pct)
Roofer count	3	4
Hours on roof	14	20
Roofer wage-hours cost	3 × 14 × $21.74 = $913.08	4 × 20 × $28.80 = $2,304.00
Supervisor wage (Phoenix)	$38.38/hr	$38.38/hr
Supervisor hours	14	20
Supervisor wage-hours cost	1 × 14 × $38.38 = $537.32	1 × 20 × $38.38 = $767.60
Total raw wage-hours cost	$1,450.40	$3,071.60
Burden multiplier (assumption)	2x	3x
Billed labor cost	$2,900.80	$9,214.80

That $2,900 to $9,200 spread comes entirely from three levers: which wage percentile the crew is paid at, how many hours the job actually takes, and where the contractor’s overhead multiplier lands. None of those three are fixed, which is why “how much does a roof cost” doesn’t have a single honest answer.

What materials add — and why there’s no dollar figure here

The only material data available for this article is the BLS Producer Price Index for prepared asphalt and tar roofing and siding products, series WPU1361. It stood at 372.301 in July 2026 versus 359.364 a year earlier, up 3.6%. Lumber, tracked separately in the same series family, is up 10.1% over the same period, from 264.248 to 291.019.

An index level is not a price. It’s a relative measure anchored to 1982=100, useful for telling you that roofing materials got meaningfully more expensive over the past year and lumber got a lot more expensive, but it cannot be converted into a per-square dollar figure without a separate retail price source this article doesn’t have. Treat that 3.6% and 10.1% as directional signals: material costs are rising, and a quote written a year ago is under-priced on materials today by roughly that much, all else equal.

Phoenix versus the national number

Phoenix roofers earn less than the national median: $22.96/hr against $26.65/hr, a gap of $3.69/hr, or 13.8% below the national figure. Arizona statewide tracks close behind Phoenix at $22.76/hr median, so this is a regional wage pattern, not a Phoenix-specific anomaly.

Run that gap through the same build-up. Swapping the Phoenix median ($22.96/hr) for the national median ($26.65/hr) across a 3-roofer, 17-hour crew (midpoint of the two scenarios above) at a 2.5x multiplier:

Phoenix: 3 × 17 × $22.96 = $1,170.96 × 2.5 = $2,927.40
National: 3 × 17 × $26.65 = $1,359.15 × 2.5 = $3,397.88

Same crew, same hours, same multiplier — the national wage gap alone adds $470.48, or 16.1%, to the labor bill. That’s the cost of comparing a Phoenix quote against a national cost-guide number instead of local wage data.

What this calculation cannot see

This build-up is wages and arithmetic. It does not, and cannot, account for:

Permits — Phoenix-area permit fees are set locally and aren’t in BLS wage or price data.
Disposal — tear-off debris hauling and dump fees vary by job size and hauler, not wage data.
Code upgrades — if the tear-off exposes decking that needs replacement, or the job triggers a code-required underlayment or ventilation upgrade, that’s additional material and labor not reflected above.
Access and pitch — steep-slope or hard-access roofs take more hours per square than the flat, easy-access case this scenario implicitly assumes. Hours, not wages, are where difficulty shows up, and hours here are an assumption you should challenge against your own roof.
Season — Phoenix summer roof work carries heat-safety costs (hydration breaks, shortened work windows) that push hours up without changing the wage rate.
Emergency or after-hours call-outs — none of this data reflects rush pricing.

Any of these can move the final number well outside the $2,900–$9,200 labor range above. That range is a floor for planning, not a ceiling on what you might actually be billed.

Reading a real quote against these numbers

When a quote comes in, ask the contractor to itemize at minimum:

Crew size and estimated hours on the roof
Labor rate or labor line total, separate from materials
Material line total, separate from labor
Permit fees
Disposal/haul-off fees
Any code-upgrade or decking-replacement contingency

If those six lines collapse into one lump “roof replacement: $X,” you have no way to check the number against anything, including this article. The single question that exposes a padded bid: “What are the labor hours and crew size for this job, separate from materials and markup?” A contractor pricing off a real calculation can answer this in one sentence. One that can’t, or won’t, is pricing off feel, not fact — which doesn’t necessarily mean the number is wrong, but it does mean you can’t verify it the way you can verify the numbers in this article.

What to check before signing

Confirm the crew size and hours quoted are stated in writing, not just a lump sum.
Ask what burden multiplier or margin the labor rate reflects, even approximately — a contractor with real cost accounting can usually give you a range.
Get material costs itemized separately so you can judge them against current PPI trend data rather than a fixed number, since prices are moving.
Confirm who pulls the permit and who’s responsible for disposal fees — these are commonly where “extra” charges appear after the job starts.
If the roof has known access, pitch, or decking issues, ask how the contractor’s hour estimate accounts for them, since that’s exactly what BLS wage data cannot tell you.

None of this replaces getting a licensed Arizona roofing contractor to look at your actual roof. What it gives you is a wage-grounded floor to measure their number against, built from the same BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook data the government publishes on this trade.