What's it going
to cost?
Concrete is sold by the square foot. Answer four questions and you'll have a range before you talk to anyone. A range is all it is — not a quote, not a price, and not something either of us is held to.
What's in
the price
Two lines make up almost every job: the crew, and what goes in the ground. Here is both, at the rates we actually quote.
Labor — driveways, patios, flatwork
The crew costs the same whatever the size, so a small pour carries more of it per foot.
- 100–250 sq ft$7.50–$10/sq ft
- 251–500 sq ft$4.75–$6/sq ft
- 501–650 sq ft$3.25–$4/sq ft
- 651 sq ft and up$2/sq ft
Materials — $3.90–$4.50/sq ft
Every line, at cost per square foot.
- Rock$0.29/sq ft
- Concrete$2.98/sq ft
- Lumber$0.18/sq ft
- Rebar$0.38/sq ft
- Machine$0.35/sq ft
Footings skip the rock — nothing to compact in a trench — so they run $3.60–$4.20/sq ft.
Priced by
the part
Footings, walls and floors are three different jobs on three different units, so they are quoted separately rather than averaged together.
And what moves it
- Stamped finish+60%
- Tear out existing concrete+$15/sq ft
- Power trowel (floors)$300–$500
- Job minimum$1,800
- Range allowance−4% / +10%
Mobilising a crew and a truck costs the same whether the pour is 200 square feet or 40, so small jobs price off the minimum rather than the rate. The allowance widens the estimate by 4% below and 10% above, because the ground has the last word and we would rather show you the spread than a single number we might miss. It leans upward for the same reason: what a calculator can't see usually adds work rather than removing it.
This is not a quote
Nothing this calculator produces is an offer, a price or a commitment, and your job can come in outside the range in either direction. It is a planning figure, built to tell you whether you are looking at four thousand dollars or fourteen.
What it can't see is your site. Access, slope, how deep the base has to go and what the ground is doing all move the number, and none of them show up in a square footage. A quote is what you get after we come out and measure — free, in writing, and the only figure either of us is held to.
Prefer to just talk to someone?
We answer Monday to Saturday.