Paver patio cost in Sioux City, IA

Cost by quality level and size in Sioux City

Three bands are cut from the same cited range and localized for Sioux City 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.

Sioux City labor market for paver patio

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 Sioux City is 1.05 times the national level.

Construction laborers (47-2061), 50% of the weighting: a median of $23.38 an hour, 3% above the US median of $22.66. The middle half of them earn between $21.71 and $28.72 an hour. About 560 work in the metro. That is 74.7 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 70.5 nationally, so the supply of crews looks typical.

Brickmasons and blockmasons (47-2021) carry 30% of the labor weighting. BLS does not publish this trade for the Sioux City metro, so we used the Iowa statewide median: $33.38 an hour against $29.87 for the US. The middle half of them earn between $25.77 and $36.59 an hour.

For landscaping and groundskeeping workers (37-3011, weighted 20%) the local median is $18.66 an hour, which is in line with the national $18.82. The middle half of them earn between $15.91 and $21.94 an hour. BLS counts 400 of them working in the area, 53.3 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 61.3), so the local bench is about average.

Quotes come from real crews, not medians. If the construction laborers on your job are paid at the 75th percentile ($28.72 an hour) instead of the median, the labor line grows by about $300. At the 25th percentile ($21.71) it shrinks by about $95. The total moves by 7.1% or 2.2%, so wages alone rarely explain a quote that is far outside our range.

For context on the local economy, BLS counts 75,010 jobs in the Sioux City area. That makes it the 247th largest of the 300 metros we cover, with 0.05% of US employment.

How Sioux City compares

Of the five closest metros, 2 are cheaper than Sioux City. Lincoln is the lowest at about $4,000 (midpoint, 300 sq ft), 120 miles away.

Across 300 US metros, Sioux City comes in at #136 from the top. The priciest is Kahului, HI at $5,650; the cheapest is Dothan, AL at $3,500 (midpoints, 300 sq ft). Statewide, Sioux City is 0% above the Iowa figure.

Other Iowa metros

Cities with a workforce like Sioux City's

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

Planning more than one job in Sioux City?

Because every project leans on different trades, Sioux City's wage level does not move all prices equally. Against the US midpoint, retaining wall runs level and wood deck −9%.

Add-ons priced for Sioux City

Extras are quoted nationally and then scaled to Sioux City by the average of the local wage index (1.05) and goods index (0.94), a factor of 0.99. 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.

Paver patio: what moves the price in Sioux City

• 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.

Climate in Sioux City: timing your paver patio job

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

April through October is the stretch where digging, grading and setting material in the ground runs into the fewest weather problems in Sioux City (7 of 12 months). January, February, March, November and December have an average overnight low at or below freezing (32°F).

In January, February, March, November and December the average low is at or below freezing, which means frozen ground and slower digging, compaction and sod or stone placement. NOAA counts about 154 days a year with a low at or below 32°F at this station.

Sioux City gets about 29 inches of precipitation in a normal year, including roughly 36 inches of snow. The wettest months are May, June and August (4.3 inches in June). Inside the workable window, September and October are the driest, at 2.8 and 2.2 inches. The station averages about 25 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.