Garage door cost in Baltimore, MD

How Baltimore compares

Same job, same size (1 door), priced for the nearest metros. Washington is the priciest of the group at $2,350. Dover is the cheapest at $2,100.

Across 300 US metros, Baltimore comes in at #52 from the top. The priciest is Honolulu, HI at $2,700; the cheapest is Brownsville, TX at $1,850 (midpoints, 1 door). Statewide, Baltimore is 1% below the Maryland figure.

Other Maryland metros

Cities with a workforce like Baltimore's

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

Optional extras in Baltimore

Extras are quoted nationally and then scaled to Baltimore by the average of the local wage index (1.04) and goods index (1.02), a factor of 1.03. 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.

Specs and site conditions that change a Baltimore bid

• Opener

  A new opener is a separate line at $300-$900 installed.

• Labor

  Installation labor is about $200-$500, so the door itself is most of the bill.

• Permit

  Like-for-like replacement often needs no permit. Opening up the wall or adding wiring can.

Planning more than one job in Baltimore?

Because every project leans on different trades, Baltimore's wage level does not move all prices equally. Against the US midpoint, patio door runs +3% and concrete driveway −2%.

Pick a size, pick a tier: garage door pricing in Baltimore

Three bands are cut from the same cited range and localized for Baltimore 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 3 common sizes.

Climate in Baltimore: timing your garage door job

We use NOAA's 1991-2020 climate normals for Md Sci Ctr Baltimore (in the city). These are 30-year monthly averages, not forecasts.

February through June and August through December are the stretches where exterior installation runs into the fewest weather problems in Baltimore (10 of 12 months). January has an average daytime high under 45°F; July has an average daytime high of 90°F or more.

In January the average high stays below 45°F. Sealants, adhesives and some materials, such as vinyl, are harder to install well in the cold, and short daylight cuts the working day.

Baltimore gets about 44 inches of precipitation in a normal year. The wettest months are July, August and September (4.7 inches in July). Inside the workable window, February and November are the driest, at 2.8 and 3.0 inches. The station averages about 43 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.

Baltimore labor market for garage door

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 Baltimore is 1.04 times the national level.

For carpenters (47-2031, weighted 60%) the local median is $29.99 an hour, which is in line with the national $29.12. The middle half of them earn between $24.96 and $36.06 an hour. BLS counts 3,870 of them working in the area, 28.5 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 43.1), so the local bench is thinner than average.

Electricians (47-2111), 20% of the weighting: a median of $31.54 an hour, 4% above the US median of $30.38. The middle half of them earn between $26.96 and $44.20 an hour. About 6,930 work in the metro. That is 51.1 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 48.7 nationally, so the supply of crews looks typical.

General maintenance and repair workers (49-9071), 20% of the weighting: a median of $25.05 an hour, 5% above the US median of $23.84. The middle half of them earn between $21.16 and $29.93 an hour. About 11,250 work in the metro. That is 82.9 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 98.4 nationally, so expect fewer local crews to bid.

Quotes come from real crews, not medians. If the carpenters on your job are paid at the 75th percentile ($36.06 an hour) instead of the median, the labor line grows by about $80. At the 25th percentile ($24.96) it shrinks by about $65. The total moves by 3.6% or 3.0%, so wages alone rarely explain a quote that is far outside our range.

For context on the local economy, BLS counts 1,356,680 jobs in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson area. That makes it the 22nd largest of the 300 metros we cover, with 0.87% of US employment.