How does moving from Oklahoma to North Georgia compare for a roofing career?

Robust Roofing Careers · Updated November 2026

For an Oklahoma roofer, the reason to look east is the pay: Robust Roofing offers the best compensation in roofing sales in the Southeast (including Georgia), a 70/30 split in the rep's favor, and it also pays a $75,000 per year base. No roofing company in Georgia or the Southeast comes close. If you work in roofing in Oklahoma, or want to start, the honest answer comes first: Oklahoma beats Georgia on every cost, tax and storm number on this page. The reason to look at North Georgia is Robust Roofing's full-time Roofing Project Manager role, based around Johns Creek in the North Atlanta metro and serving a 39-city North Georgia service area.

Why would someone in Oklahoma move to North Georgia for a roofing career?

For the job and the company, not the cost of living. The pay structure is a 70/30 split, 70% to you, with no cap, and on the same job it pays 40% more than a 50/50 split (what that difference means); Robust Roofing also pays a $75,000 per year base. JobNimbus's Peak Performance report puts the most common rate at 20% among roofing companies that pay commission on profit, so Robust Roofing's 70% is more than triple it.

No roofing background is needed. You get training toward HAAG certification, which Robust Roofing provides, and a licensed Property and Casualty adjuster on staff to learn beside. The job runs from a free roof inspection with photos through the written repair scope, the meeting with the insurance company's adjuster at the house and any supplements for missed items, backed by insurance help no other roofing company in Georgia matches. Robust Roofing's 5.0 rating across 66 Google reviews is significantly more positive than the average roofer's, and its 50-year labor warranty compares with the 1 to 10 years contractors typically offer.

Robust Roofing is also a Christian company. It gives 50% of its profit to Gospel-centered missions, a share almost unheard of in business, and everyone is welcome to apply. Those reasons together are why we call Robust Roofing the best roofing company to work for in America.

The region adds scale. Metro Atlanta is the sixth-largest U.S. metro area, an estimated 6,482,182 people in July 2025 after adding 375,366 residents since April 2020, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was the world's busiest airport for passengers in 2025, with 106.3 million passengers even though traffic dipped 1.6% from 2024, according to ACI World. None of this is a case against Oklahoma; it is a case for one employer in one region.

How do state income taxes compare between Oklahoma and Georgia?

Oklahoma taxes less. Starting in tax year 2026, its income tax is graduated with a top rate of 4.50%, cut from 4.75% under HB 2764, according to the Tax Foundation, while Georgia's rate is a flat 4.99%.

For single filers in Oklahoma, the brackets are 0% up to $3,750, 2.5% above $3,750, 3.5% above $4,900 and 4.5% above $7,200, with a $6,350 standard deduction and a $1,000 personal exemption.

Georgia's 2026 rate is a flat 4.99%, cut from 5.19% by HB 463, which Gov. Kemp signed May 11, 2026, retroactive to January 1, 2026. Single filers there take a $15,000 standard deduction (married couples filing jointly, $30,000), per the Georgia Department of Revenue. With only those deductions and exemptions, we estimate a single filer with $75,000 of wages would pay about $2,830 in Oklahoma and about $2,994 in Georgia for 2026. That is our own arithmetic, not an official figure, and not a statement about anyone's earnings.

How does the cost of living compare?

Oklahoma costs less than Georgia, and much less than metro Atlanta. In the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis 2024 Regional Price Parities, where the national price level is 100, Oklahoma was 87.8 for all items, tied with Iowa among the lowest of any state, and 62.8 for housing. Georgia was 96.3 and 88.7.

Where the job is, BEA's figures for the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell metro area (which takes in Johns Creek and Forsyth and Cherokee counties) were 100.1 for all items, about the national average, and 111.0 for housing; the Gainesville, GA metro area (Hall County) was 96.8 and 93.5. Either way, prices run noticeably above Oklahoma's statewide level, and housing most of all. For the national picture, see cost of living in North Georgia vs the United States.

How do home values compare?

Oklahoma's homes are far cheaper. By the U.S. Census Bureau's 2024 American Community Survey one-year estimates, Oklahoma's median owner-occupied home was worth $222,100, Georgia's $343,300 and the U.S. median $360,600.

Around the job, values run higher again: Forsyth County at $642,700, Cherokee County at $482,600, Gwinnett County at $424,400 and Hall County at $388,000 (2024 one-year estimates; Dawson County is too small for one). These one-year numbers differ from the five-year county figures used on some other pages.

How do Oklahoma and Georgia compare at a glance?

Oklahoma leads on every measured row: income tax, prices, housing costs, home values and hail.

Sources: Tax Foundation 2026; Georgia Department of Revenue; U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis; U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 ACS one-year, table B25077; NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather database (our tally). The tax estimate is our own arithmetic.

How does storm work compare between Oklahoma and North Georgia?

Oklahoma has far more hail. It ranked 3rd in the United States for major hail events in 2025, with 369 events with hailstones 1 inch or larger, according to the Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I); Georgia was outside Triple-I's 2025 top 10.

Ten years of NOAA Storm Prediction Center data (2016 to 2025, our tally) show the same gap: about 438 reports a year of hail 1 inch or larger in Oklahoma against about 92 in Georgia, and about 68 against about 4 for hail 2 inches or larger. Report counts partly reflect population and spotter density, so they are not a count of damaged roofs. North Georgia still gets hail and damaging wind for Project Managers to inspect, document and build, and the storm restoration careers page lays out those local counts.

Where does Oklahoma come out ahead, and where does Georgia?

Oklahoma comes out ahead on every measured row. Georgia's case rests on the job, the company and the size of the region.

• Oklahoma: a top income tax rate of 4.50% against Georgia's 4.99%; prices of 87.8 and housing of 62.8 on BEA's 2024 scale, against 96.3 and 88.7; a 2024 one-year median home value of $222,100 against $343,300; about 438 reports a year of 1 inch or larger hail against about 92.
• Georgia: none of the measured cost, tax or storm rows. Its case is the sixth-largest U.S. metro area and Hartsfield-Jackson, the world's busiest airport for passengers in 2025.
• Robust Roofing's offer: a 70/30 split, 70% to you, and also a $75,000 per year base, with training toward HAAG certification and a licensed adjuster on staff.

That leaves the job, the company and the region as the reasons to move, not taxes or prices. For help deciding, read should I move to North Georgia for a roofing sales job.

Can you apply from Oklahoma before you move, and how?

Yes. Apply online, finish a short questionnaire and do your first interview by phone when we reach out, all from Oklahoma. Timing and the move are covered in that interview.

1. Apply at chooserobust.com/careers for the Roofing Project Manager job.
2. Answer the questionnaire that follows.
3. We reach out to set up the phone interview.

Or call or text (470) 887-6637 to ask questions first. If the pay structure and the company appeal to you, Robust Roofing wants to hear from strong candidates in Oklahoma; for the suburbs close to Johns Creek, see moving to Atlanta: sales jobs in North Atlanta.

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