To provide a shaft member for a rolling bearing for a wheel and a method for manufacturing the same in which the shaft member of the rolling bearing for the wheel is integrally formed by cold forging in which positions requiring grinding and polishing after forming are fewer than hot forging and positions requiring quenching and annealing after forming can be reduced by using harder structural carbon steel.

The shaft member 1 of the bearing for the wheel has a shaft part 10, a flange part 21 and a fitting shaft part 30, an adjacent outer peripheral surface 19 is formed in a position adjacent to an inner ring raceway surface 18 formed near a border part of the shaft part and the flange part, the shaft part has a large diameter shaft part 11 in the side near the flange part and a small diameter shaft part 12 far from the same, an inner wheel abutting surface 12a is formed in a step part of the large diameter shaft part and the small diameter shaft part, the quenching and the annealing are carried out in a heat treating step (H), and the inner ring raceway surface 18 is subjected to the quenching and the annealing without subjecting the outer peripheral surface of the small diameter shaft part 12 and the inner wheel abutting surface 12a and the abutting outer peripheral surface 19 to the quenching and the annealing.