Roof replacement cost in St. George, UT

How St. George compares

Same job, same size (2,000 sq ft of roof), priced for the nearest metros. Las Vegas is the priciest of the group at $8,700. Prescott Valley is the cheapest at $8,350.

Out of the 300 metros we cover, St. George ranks #150 for the cost of this job (#1 is the most expensive). Statewide, St. George is 1% above the Utah figure.

Elsewhere in Utah

Metros of a similar size

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

St. George: what basic, standard and premium work costs

The cited range is split into basic, standard and premium bands, then scaled to St. George. 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 very large (3,600 sq ft of roof).

St. George weather and the roof replacement calendar

Climate numbers on this page come from NOAA's 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals at the nearest suitable station, St George (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 St. George are October through May: 8 of 12. Outside them, June, July, August and September have an average daytime high of 90°F or more.

St. George gets about 9 inches of precipitation in a normal year, including roughly 1 inches of snow. The wettest months are January, February and August (1.4 inches in February). Inside the workable window, April and May are the driest, at 0.7 and 0.3 inches. The station averages about 128 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.

What local crews earn in St. George

The labor line is built from BLS wage data, one trade at a time. This job draws on 2 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 St. George the blend is 0.91.

Roofers (47-2181), 85% of the weighting: a median of $23.86 an hour, 10% below the US median of $26.65. The middle half of them earn between $20.75 and $30.31 an hour. About 260 work in the metro. That is 28.7 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 8.7 nationally, which suggests plenty of local crews to bid.

For construction laborers (47-2061, weighted 15%) the local median is $21.96 an hour, which is 3% below the national $22.66. The middle half of them earn between $18.37 and $23.78 an hour. BLS counts 1,500 of them working in the area, 165.7 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 $1,150 to the midpoint estimate; the 25th percentile takes off about $570. That is a swing of roughly 6.5% to 13.6% of the total, which is useful for judging whether a bid reflects wages or something else, such as scope or margin.

St. George has 90,500 jobs in total (BLS, May 2025), ranking 219th by size among the 300 metros on this site.

Specs and site conditions that change a St. George bid

• Tear-off and layers

  Removing a second layer or rotted decking adds cost, and the contractor can only see decking damage after tear-off.

• Tear-off

  Removing the old roof is $1-$5 per sq ft depending on the material and number of layers (HomeGuide). Check that your quote includes it.

• Permit

  Roof replacement permits run $100-$500 depending on the location.

Planning more than one job in St. George?

Jobs that often go together with roof are priced below at their usual sizes, using the same St. George wage and price inputs. Compared with national midpoints, gutters comes out highest (−7%) and vinyl siding lowest (−10%); the gap comes from the trades each job uses.