Front door cost in Georgia

Why two Georgia quotes can differ

• Door material

  Basic steel doors run about $200-$600 for the door; fiberglass and wood go to $2,000 (HomeGuide).

• Double doors

  A double front door costs $1,500-$6,500+ installed; the doors alone are $1,200-$5,000.

• Frame

  Frame repair adds $75-$200+; rebuilding the opening for a new size costs $7-$20 per linear foot for framing.

• Paint

  Painting an unfinished door adds $125-$225; door and trim together are $150-$400.

Wages behind the Georgia number

Georgia's labor line is priced from 2 trades, each compared with its US median wage. After weighting by each trade's share of the work, the state comes out at 0.84 times the national level.

Carpenters (47-2031), 85% of the weighting: a median of $23.72 an hour, 19% below the US median of $29.12. The middle half of them earn between $20.29 and $28.00 an hour. About 9,190 work in the state. That is 18.8 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 43.1 nationally, so expect fewer local crews to bid.

For general maintenance and repair workers (49-9071, weighted 15%) the local median is $22.92 an hour, which is 4% below the national $23.84. The middle half of them earn between $18.82 and $28.85 an hour. BLS counts 48,430 of them working in the state, 99.1 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 98.4), so the local bench is about average.

A crew paid at the 75th percentile for carpenters ($28.00 an hour) would add about $50 to the statewide midpoint; one at the 25th percentile ($20.29) would take off about $40. Use that as a rough guide to how far a bid can sit from our midpoint on wages alone.

BLS counts 4,889,170 jobs across Georgia (May 2025), which is 3.1% of US employment.

Georgia versus the states around it

Georgia ranks 33 of 51 (the 50 states plus DC) for front door, where 1 is the most expensive. The costliest is Hawaii at $1,800 and the cheapest Oklahoma at $1,350, both for 1 door at the midpoint. Georgia sits at $1,400. The five states closest by workforce center are listed below.

Georgia seasons and front door

Weather decides when exterior installation can happen, and Georgia is not uniform. The table uses NOAA's 1991-2020 climate normals from the weather station nearest each metro we cover, and counts the months that are neither cold nor hot enough to complicate the job.

Gainesville has the longest comfortable season of the metros we cover in Georgia at 12 months; Albany has the shortest at 9 (September through May). Rainfall runs from 45 inches a year in Augusta to 55 inches in Dalton.

We do not adjust prices by month, because we have no reliable published data on seasonal pricing. Timing is still worth raising when you collect bids.

Other Georgia jobs that often go with front door

Each project weights the trades differently, so Georgia's wage level does not push every price by the same amount. Compared with the US midpoint, garage door is −5% and patio door −10%.

Basic, standard or premium: Georgia prices

Bands overlap on purpose, since a good standard job can cost as much as a light premium one. Below are the three bands for the default size, then a grid from single entry door to front and side doors.

Which Georgia city is cheapest for front door?

2 of the 10 metros sit above the statewide midpoint of $1,400, and the top-to-bottom gap is 9%. Each row prices the default size with that metro's own BLS wages and BEA price levels, so the gap between rows is real local variation rather than a flat markup.