Paver patio cost in Sacramento, CA

What nearby projects cost in Sacramento

Jobs that often go together with paver patio are priced below at their usual sizes, using the same Sacramento wage and price inputs. Compared with national midpoints, retaining wall comes out highest (+16%) and concrete slab lowest (+11%); the gap comes from the trades each job uses.

Specs and site conditions that change a Sacramento bid

• Base prep

  The base (road base, fabric, edging, bedding and joint sand) is $1.40-$2.20 per sq ft of the materials number.

• Excavation and grading

  Digging out is $1-$5 per sq ft; regrading a sloped yard is $0.40-$2.00 per sq ft.

• Pattern

  Herringbone and curves take longer to lay and waste more stone than a running bond.

Extras that change the Sacramento total

Add-ons start from national price ranges and are scaled by 1.14 for Sacramento, which is the average of the area's wage index (1.23) and goods price index (1.05). The estimator above can add them to your total.

Sacramento against nearby metros and the rest of California

Contractors rarely work more than an hour or two from home, so the neighboring metros set a rough ceiling and floor for your quotes. Midpoints for 300 sq ft range from $4,650 to $4,900 across Sacramento and its five closest metros.

Out of the 300 metros we cover, Sacramento ranks #22 for the cost of this job (#1 is the most expensive). Statewide, Sacramento is 1% above the California figure.

Elsewhere in California

Metros of a similar size

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

Sacramento weather and the paver patio calendar

Climate numbers on this page come from NOAA's 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals at the nearest suitable station, Sacramento 5 Ese (5 miles from the city center). They are 30-year averages, so any one year can run hotter, colder or wetter.

For digging, grading and setting material in the ground, the comfortable months in Sacramento are September through June: 10 of 12. Outside them, July and August have an average daytime high of 90°F or more.

Sacramento gets about 19 inches of precipitation in a normal year. The wettest months are January, February and December (3.9 inches in January). Inside the workable window, June and September are the driest, at 0.2 and 0.1 inches. The station averages about 90 days a year at 90°F or above.

We do not adjust the estimate by month, because we have no reliable published data on seasonal pricing. It is still worth asking contractors whether an off-peak start date changes their bid.

Pick a size, pick a tier: paver patio pricing in Sacramento

The cited range is split into basic, standard and premium bands, then scaled to Sacramento. Bands overlap, because plenty of standard jobs cost as much as a light premium one. Sizes run from 12x12 (144 sq ft) to pool deck (800 sq ft).

What local crews earn in Sacramento

The labor line is built from BLS wage data, one trade at a time. This job draws on 3 trades. We compare each trade's local median with the US median, weight the ratios by how much of the job each trade does, and apply the blend to the national labor cost. For Sacramento the blend is 1.23.

For construction laborers (47-2061, weighted 50%) the local median is $29.11 an hour, which is 28% above the national $22.66. The middle half of them earn between $23.15 and $36.54 an hour. BLS counts 7,390 of them working in the area, 68.4 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 70.5), so the local bench is about average.

For brickmasons and blockmasons (47-2021, weighted 30%) the local median is $35.49 an hour, which is 19% above the national $29.87. The middle half of them earn between $29.45 and $40.79 an hour. BLS counts 340 of them working in the area, 3.1 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 3.4), so the local bench is about average.

Landscaping and groundskeeping workers (37-3011), 20% of the weighting: a median of $21.69 an hour, 15% above the US median of $18.82. The middle half of them earn between $18.51 and $23.70 an hour. About 7,410 work in the metro. That is 68.6 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 61.3 nationally, so the supply of crews looks typical.

A quick sensitivity check: moving the lead trade (construction laborers) from the median to the 75th percentile wage adds about $420 to the midpoint estimate; the 25th percentile takes off about $340. That is a swing of roughly 6.8% to 8.5% of the total, which is useful for judging whether a bid reflects wages or something else, such as scope or margin.

Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom has 1,080,590 jobs in total (BLS, May 2025), ranking 35th by size among the 300 metros on this site.