Asphalt driveway cost in Dothan, AL

Cost by quality level and size in Dothan

Three bands are cut from the same cited range and localized for Dothan wages and prices. They overlap on purpose: a good standard job and a modest premium job can cost the same. The grid below prices the same bands at 4 common sizes.

When to schedule asphalt driveway in Dothan

We use NOAA's 1991-2020 climate normals for Dothan Rgnl Ap (5 miles from the city center). These are 30-year monthly averages, not forecasts.

September through May is the stretch where digging, grading and setting material in the ground runs into the fewest weather problems in Dothan (9 of 12 months). June, July and August have an average daytime high of 90°F or more.

Dothan gets about 54 inches of precipitation in a normal year. The wettest months are June, July and August (6.2 inches in August). Inside the workable window, May and October are the driest, at 2.9 and 2.7 inches. The station averages about 89 days a year at 90°F or above.

Does the season change the price? Probably, but we do not have a sourced seasonal price curve, so the estimator shows a year-round figure and does not adjust by month. When you collect quotes, ask whether scheduling in a slower month gets a better rate.

Add-ons priced for Dothan

Extras are quoted nationally and then scaled to Dothan by the average of the local wage index (0.75) and goods index (0.96), a factor of 0.86. Tick any of them in the estimator above to add them to your total. Treat these as planning figures: an add-on touches different trades than the main job, so the scaling is an approximation.

Local wages behind the labor line

Wages are the part of this estimate that changes most from town to town. 3 trades carry the job here, and each is compared with its US median. The weighted result for Dothan is 0.75 times the national level.

Paving, surfacing and tamping equipment operators (47-2071) carry 40% of the labor weighting. BLS does not publish this trade for the Dothan metro, so we used the Alabama statewide median: $20.14 an hour against $25.64 for the US. The middle half of them earn between $17.74 and $23.61 an hour.

Construction laborers (47-2061), 30% of the weighting: a median of $15.39 an hour, 32% below the US median of $22.66. The middle half of them earn between $12.40 and $18.76 an hour. About 600 work in the metro. That is 98.8 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 70.5 nationally, which suggests plenty of local crews to bid.

For operating engineers and other construction equipment operators (47-2073, weighted 30%) the local median is $22.66 an hour, which is 21% below the national $28.78. The middle half of them earn between $18.22 and $26.45 an hour. BLS counts 200 of them working in the area, 32.9 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 30.7), so the local bench is about average.

Quotes come from real crews, not medians. If the paving, surfacing and tamping equipment operators on your job are paid at the 75th percentile ($23.61 an hour) instead of the median, the labor line grows by about $120. At the 25th percentile ($17.74) it shrinks by about $80. The total moves by 2.5% or 1.7%, so wages alone rarely explain a quote that is far outside our range.

For context on the local economy, BLS counts 60,720 jobs in the Dothan area. That makes it the 284th largest of the 300 metros we cover, with 0.04% of US employment.

How Dothan compares

Of the five closest metros, 1 is cheaper than Dothan. Auburn is the lowest at about $4,550 (midpoint, 600 sq ft), 85 miles away.

Across 300 US metros, Dothan comes in at #292 from the top. The priciest is Kahului, HI at $7,650; the cheapest is Fort Smith, AR at $4,450 (midpoints, 600 sq ft). Statewide, Dothan is 2% below the Alabama figure.

Other Alabama metros

Cities with a workforce like Dothan's

Big cities and small ones price differently, so here is Dothan against the 4 metros with the closest total employment.

Specs and site conditions that change a Dothan bid

• New versus overlay

  Resurfacing an existing driveway runs $3-$7 per sq ft; a full new driveway runs $5-$12+ (HomeGuide). Tearing out and replacing one is higher still.

• Base work

  Four to eight inches of compacted aggregate under the asphalt is where cheap quotes cut corners. Base typically runs $1-$3 per sq ft.

• Small jobs cost more per foot

  Paving crews move a paver, roller and trucks to your address, so a 400 sq ft driveway carries more mobilization per square foot than a 1,000 sq ft one.

What nearby projects cost in Dothan

Because every project leans on different trades, Dothan's wage level does not move all prices equally. Against the US midpoint, concrete slab runs −14% and concrete driveway −19%.