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Pricing guides
Published price benchmarks for eight common jobs, side by side with their sources and dates, plus what trade workers earn. Use them to sanity-check your own numbers, not to replace them.
Kitchen prices depend mostly on scope. Refacing cabinets and replacing appliances is a different job from a new layout with semi-custom cabinets. Cost vs. Value prices three defined projects; HomeAdvisor and HomeGuide report typical spend and ranges.
Bathroom figures run from a powder room refresh to a primary bath or a new bathroom addition, so check which scope a number describes before you compare it with your quote.
Roofs are usually priced per square (100 square feet), so the total follows roof size, pitch and material. Cost vs. Value prices a full tear-off on a defined 3,000 square foot hip roof; the other sources give per-square-foot and per-square ranges.
Painting is mostly labor, and prices are quoted per square foot of paintable area, per room or per whole house. Cost vs. Value has no painting project, so these figures come from HomeAdvisor and HomeGuide.
Flooring is quoted per square foot installed, and the material sets most of the range. Tile has the widest spread because labor varies with tile size, pattern and prep.
Siding is priced per square foot of wall. The two sources disagree widely on fiber cement: HomeGuide’s Hardie board range sits well above HomeAdvisor’s. Both are shown as published.
Equipment type, size and fuel drive HVAC prices. HomeGuide’s own pages give different heat pump ranges ($3,800 to $8,200 on one page, $10,000 to $25,000 or more on another); both are shown as published.
Cost vs. Value prices the same 16 by 20 foot deck in pressure-treated wood and in composite, which makes the material difference easy to see.
Labor
$29.12
Carpenters, median hourly wage
$22.66
Construction laborers, median hourly wage
$23.75
Painters, median hourly wage
$26.65
Roofers, median hourly wage
$26.77
Tile and stone setters, median hourly wage
$30.38
Electricians, median hourly wage
$30.67
Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters, median hourly wage
$29.33
HVAC mechanics and installers, median hourly wage
$38.42
Construction trade supervisors, median hourly wage
Median hourly wages from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 national estimates, released May 15, 2026. A wage is what the worker is paid, not what you bill. Add payroll taxes, insurance, time that isn’t billable, overhead and profit to get a billing rate, or work it out with the labor rate calculator.
Using the numbers
Benchmarks are averages across many markets and scopes. Your materials, crew and overhead set your floor, so price each job from its own takeoff first.
Browse the templates →A 50% markup is only a 33% margin. Mix them up and every job comes in under the margin you meant to earn.
Open the markup calculator →The wage you pay is only part of what an hour costs you. Work out your real hourly cost before you set a rate.
Open the labor rate calculator →Why the sources disagree. Cost vs. Value prices one defined project per category, averaged across U.S. markets. HomeAdvisor reports what its customers say they spent, and HomeGuide publishes typical cost ranges. Scope, region and date all differ, so read the “what it covers” line before comparing figures.
Questions
There’s no single number, because it depends on which rooms and systems you redo. This page doesn’t give a whole-house figure, so add up the jobs instead. HomeAdvisor (updated June 17, 2026) puts an average kitchen remodel at $26,990, a typical bathroom remodel at $12,153, a roof replacement at $9,609 and interior painting at $2,022. Price your own job from its takeoff.
It depends on the room and the scope. HomeAdvisor puts kitchen remodels at $75 to $250 per square foot, and HomeGuide puts bathrooms at $100 to $500 per square foot, with the high end for layout changes and custom finishes. Square-foot prices are a rough check; quote from the job’s own scope. More detail is in our kitchen remodel cost guide.
Because they measure different things. Cost vs. Value prices one defined project per category, averaged across U.S. markets; HomeAdvisor reports what its customers say they spent; HomeGuide publishes typical ranges. That’s why a midrange major kitchen remodel is $82,793 in Cost vs. Value 2025 while HomeAdvisor’s average kitchen remodel is $26,990. Check scope, region and date before you compare.
As a check, not a price. Price each job from your own takeoff, labor rate, overhead and margin, then compare the total with published benchmarks to catch a missed item or an off markup. In ECHOPS, price book items carry their own cost parts, markups and waste, so estimates start from your numbers. Work out your hourly cost with the labor rate calculator.
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