Metal roof cost in Kennewick, WA

Specs and site conditions that change a Kennewick bid

• Other metals

  Tin runs $600-$1,800 per roofing square (100 sq ft) installed and aluminum $700-$1,700 per square (HomeGuide).

• Panel type

  Corrugated sheet metal is $5-$12 per sq ft installed; standing seam is $9-$16 (HomeGuide).

• Metal and gauge

  Galvalume and galvanized steel are budget-friendly; copper and zinc are the top of the range.

The best months for metal roof in Kennewick

Climate numbers on this page come from NOAA's 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals at the nearest suitable station, Pasco Tri Cities Ap (5 miles from the city center). They are 30-year averages, so any one year can run hotter, colder or wetter.

For exterior installation, the comfortable months in Kennewick are February through June and September through November: 8 of 12. Outside them, January and December have an average daytime high under 45°F, and July and August have an average daytime high of 90°F or more.

In January and December the average high stays below 45°F. Sealants, adhesives and some materials, such as vinyl, are harder to install well in the cold, and short daylight cuts the working day.

Kennewick gets about 8 inches of precipitation in a normal year. The wettest months are January, November and December (1.0 inches in January). Inside the workable window, June and September are the driest, at 0.6 and 0.3 inches. The station averages about 55 days a year at 90°F or above.

We do not adjust the estimate by month, because we have no reliable published data on seasonal pricing. It is still worth asking contractors whether an off-peak start date changes their bid.

Planning more than one job in Kennewick?

Jobs that often go together with metal roof are priced below at their usual sizes, using the same Kennewick wage and price inputs. Compared with national midpoints, gutters comes out highest (+14%) and roof replacement lowest (+7%); the gap comes from the trades each job uses.

Kennewick against nearby metros and the rest of Washington

Of the five closest metros, 4 are cheaper than Kennewick. Coeur d'Alene is the lowest at about $20,800 (midpoint, 2,000 sq ft of roof), 150 miles away.

Out of the 300 metros we cover, Kennewick ranks #27 for the cost of this job (#1 is the most expensive). Statewide, Kennewick is 1% below the Washington figure.

Elsewhere in Washington

Metros of a similar size

Big cities and small ones price differently, so here is Kennewick against the 4 metros with the closest total employment.

Who does the work: Kennewick trade wages

The labor line is built from BLS wage data, one trade at a time. This job draws on 3 trades. We compare each trade's local median with the US median, weight the ratios by how much of the job each trade does, and apply the blend to the national labor cost. For Kennewick the blend is 1.18.

Roofers (47-2181), 70% of the weighting: a median of $28.73 an hour, 8% above the US median of $26.65. The middle half of them earn between $24.61 and $36.65 an hour. About 210 work in the metro. That is 16.2 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 8.7 nationally, which suggests plenty of local crews to bid.

Sheet metal workers (47-2211), 20% of the weighting: a median of $46.15 an hour, 55% above the US median of $29.71. The middle half of them earn between $34.69 and $61.62 an hour. About 190 work in the metro. That is 14.7 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 7.7 nationally, which suggests plenty of local crews to bid.

For construction laborers (47-2061, weighted 10%) the local median is $26.32 an hour, which is 16% above the national $22.66. The middle half of them earn between $21.79 and $33.92 an hour. BLS counts 1,110 of them working in the area, 85.7 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 70.5), so the local bench is deeper than average.

A quick sensitivity check: moving the lead trade (roofers) from the median to the 75th percentile wage adds about $2,500 to the midpoint estimate; the 25th percentile takes off about $1,300. That is a swing of roughly 5.4% to 10.4% of the total, which is useful for judging whether a bid reflects wages or something else, such as scope or margin.

Kennewick-Richland has 129,490 jobs in total (BLS, May 2025), ranking 169th by size among the 300 metros on this site.

Pick a size, pick a tier: metal roof pricing in Kennewick

The cited range is split into basic, standard and premium bands, then scaled to Kennewick. Bands overlap, because plenty of standard jobs cost as much as a light premium one. Sizes run from small (1,200 sq ft of roof) to large (2,800 sq ft of roof).