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

Robust Roofing Careers · Updated October 2026

If you work in roofing in Florida, or want to start, this page lays out what changes when you move to North Georgia for 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. Florida wins on income tax, and this page says so.

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

For the pay structure and the way the company works. Robust Roofing pays its Project Managers a true 50/50 split of job profit with nothing taken off the top, not a 10/50/50 (here is the difference), and no cap, and it also pays a $75,000 per year base. Among roofing companies that pay commission on profit, 20% is the most common rate, according to JobNimbus's Peak Performance report; Robust Roofing's 50% is more than double that.

You do not need roofing experience. Robust Roofing provides training toward HAAG certification, and you learn beside a licensed Property and Casualty adjuster on staff. The work is inspecting roofs, documenting storm damage with photos, writing the repair scope, meeting the insurance company's adjuster at the house and submitting supplements for missed items, backed by insurance help no other roofing company in Georgia matches. You also sell a 50-year labor warranty, compared with the 1 to 10 years contractors typically offer, for a company rated 5.0 across 66 Google reviews, significantly more positive than the average roofer's.

Robust Roofing is a Christian company that gives 50% of its profit to Gospel-centered missions, which is almost unheard of in business, and everyone is welcome to apply. That mix is why we believe Robust Roofing is the best roofing company to work for in America. This is not a case against Florida; it is a case for one employer in one region.

How do state income taxes compare between Florida and Georgia?

On income tax, Florida wins outright. The Tax Foundation lists no individual income tax in Florida for 2026, while Georgia taxes wages.

Under HB 463, signed by Gov. Kemp on May 11, 2026, Georgia's rate dropped from 5.19% to a flat 4.99%, applied back to January 1, 2026. Single filers get a $15,000 standard deduction and married couples filing jointly $30,000, according to the Georgia Department of Revenue. Our own estimate for a single filer with $75,000 of wages who takes only the standard deduction: about $2,994 of 2026 state income tax in Georgia, and $0 in Florida. It is arithmetic, not an official number, and not a prediction of anyone's pay.

How does the cost of living compare?

Georgia costs less than Florida, statewide and in metro Atlanta. In the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis 2024 Regional Price Parities, where the national price level is 100, Florida was 103.4 for all items and 122.1 for housing, and Georgia was 96.3 and 88.7.

Robust Roofing's job sits inside the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell metro area, home to Johns Creek and to Forsyth and Cherokee counties. Its 2024 parities were 100.1 overall, about the national average, and 111.0 for housing: higher than Georgia statewide, yet still under Florida's statewide 103.4 and 122.1. Hall County's Gainesville, GA metro area, also part of the service area, came in at 96.8 and 93.5. The national picture is on cost of living in North Georgia vs the United States.

How does Miami compare with metro Atlanta?

Overall prices in metro Atlanta ran about 12% lower than in the Miami metro area in 2024: 100.1 against 114.2 on BEA's Regional Price Parities, with the percentage computed from BEA's index values. That comparison covers overall prices only; for housing, use the statewide figures above. Other Florida metros are not compared here.

How do home values compare?

Statewide, Georgia's homes are cheaper. The U.S. Census Bureau's 2024 one-year estimates from the American Community Survey show a median home value of $343,300 in Georgia, $396,900 in Florida and $360,600 across the United States.

The counties near the job are a different story. The same 2024 one-year estimates put Forsyth County at $642,700, well above the Florida median, with Cherokee County at $482,600 and Gwinnett County at $424,400 also above it. Hall County, at $388,000, is below it, and Dawson County is too small for a one-year estimate. These 2024 one-year estimates differ from the five-year county figures on some other pages.

How do Florida and Georgia compare at a glance?

Florida leads on income tax; Georgia leads on prices, housing costs and the statewide median home value, while three of the four nearby counties listed run above Florida's median.

Sources: Tax Foundation 2026; Georgia Department of Revenue; U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis; U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 ACS one-year, table B25077. The tax estimate is our own arithmetic.

What is the weather like in North Georgia?

By NOAA's 1991 to 2020 climate normals for Atlanta, January averages 44.8°F, with a normal high of 54.0°F and a low of 35.6°F, and July averages 80.9°F, with a high of 90.1°F and a low of 71.8°F.

Over a year, those normals show 50.43 inches of precipitation and 2.2 inches of snow (NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information). They are measured at the Hartsfield-Jackson airport station, so they will not fit every town in the service area exactly. For daily life in the region, see what it is like to live and work in North Georgia.

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

Florida comes out ahead on state income tax, because it has none. Georgia comes out ahead on overall prices, housing costs and the statewide median home value.

• Florida: no state income tax, against Georgia's flat 4.99%.
• Georgia: lower prices and housing costs on BEA's 2024 scale (96.3 and 88.7, against Florida's 103.4 and 122.1), with metro Atlanta's 100.1 and 111.0 also under Florida; a statewide 2024 one-year median home value of $343,300 against $396,900.
• Robust Roofing: the pay structure (a true 50/50 with nothing off the top, and also a $75,000 per year base), the licensed adjuster on staff and the training toward HAAG certification are the same wherever you come from.

So taxes are not the reason to come; the job, the company and the region are. The bigger decision is covered in should I move to North Georgia for a roofing sales job.

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

Yes, the whole first step happens from Florida. Fill out the online application, answer a short questionnaire, then book your first interview, a short phone call, at a time you choose. Anything about timing and the move comes up in that interview.

1. Start the application at chooserobust.com/careers (Roofing Project Manager).
2. Answer the short questionnaire.
3. Choose a time for your phone interview.

Questions first? Call or text (470) 887-6637. Robust Roofing welcomes strong candidates from Florida, and the suburbs near Johns Creek are listed in moving to Atlanta: sales jobs in North Atlanta.

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