Front door cost in Tennessee

When Tennessee weather lets you replace

Weather decides when exterior installation can happen, and Tennessee 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.

Knoxville has the longest comfortable season of the metros we cover in Tennessee at 12 months; Jackson has the shortest at 10 (September through June). Rainfall runs from 44 inches a year in Johnson City to 57 inches in Jackson.

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.

Why two Tennessee 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.

Which Tennessee city is cheapest for front door?

1 of the 8 metros sit above the statewide midpoint of $1,400, and the top-to-bottom gap is 4%. 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.

Tennessee labor market for front door

Tennessee'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 0.86 times the national level.

Carpenters (47-2031), 85% of the weighting: a median of $24.44 an hour, 16% below the US median of $29.12. The middle half of them earn between $22.36 and $28.80 an hour. About 8,200 work in the state. That is 25.0 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 $22.71 an hour, which is 5% below the national $23.84. The middle half of them earn between $18.39 and $28.38 an hour. BLS counts 35,790 of them working in the state, 109.2 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 98.4), so the local bench is about average.

A crew paid at the 75th percentile for carpenters ($28.80 an hour) would add about $50 to the statewide midpoint; one at the 25th percentile ($22.36) would take off about $25. Use that as a rough guide to how far a bid can sit from our midpoint on wages alone.

BLS counts 3,278,760 jobs across Tennessee (May 2025), which is 2.1% of US employment.

Other Tennessee jobs that often go with front door

Each project weights the trades differently, so Tennessee's wage level does not push every price by the same amount. Compared with the US midpoint, garage door is −6% and patio door −9%.

Basic, standard or premium: Tennessee 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.

Tennessee against its neighbors

Tennessee ranks 42 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. Tennessee sits at $1,400. The five states closest by workforce center are listed below.