Paver patio cost in Wichita, KS

Related projects, priced for Wichita

Jobs that often go together with paver patio are priced below at their usual sizes, using the same Wichita wage and price inputs. Compared with national midpoints, retaining wall comes out highest (−8%) and concrete driveway lowest (−12%); the gap comes from the trades each job uses.

The best months for paver patio in Wichita

Climate numbers on this page come from NOAA's 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals at the nearest suitable station, Wichita (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 Wichita are March through June and September through November: 7 of 12. Outside them, January, February and December have an average overnight low at or below freezing (32°F), and July and August have an average daytime high of 90°F or more.

In January, February 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 103 days a year with a low at or below 32°F at this station.

Wichita gets about 34 inches of precipitation in a normal year, including roughly 13 inches of snow. The wettest months are May, June and August (5.2 inches in May). Inside the workable window, March and November are the driest, at 2.3 and 1.4 inches. The station averages about 65 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.

Optional extras in Wichita

Add-ons start from national price ranges and are scaled by 0.93 for Wichita, which is the average of the area's wage index (0.92) and goods price index (0.94). The estimator above can add them to your total.

Paver patio: what moves the price in Wichita

• 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.

• Permit

  At-grade patios often need no permit; add a retaining wall, a cover, or a connection to the house and that changes.

Cost by quality level and size in Wichita

The cited range is split into basic, standard and premium bands, then scaled to Wichita. 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).

Who does the work: Wichita trade wages

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 Wichita the blend is 0.92.

For construction laborers (47-2061, weighted 50%) the local median is $19.89 an hour, which is 12% below the national $22.66. The middle half of them earn between $17.93 and $22.93 an hour. BLS counts 2,300 of them working in the area, 74.5 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 70.5), so the local bench is about average.

Brickmasons and blockmasons (47-2021) carry 30% of the labor weighting. BLS does not publish this trade for the Wichita metro, so we used the Kansas statewide median: $28.47 an hour against $29.87 for the US. The middle half of them earn between $23.31 and $37.43 an hour.

Landscaping and groundskeeping workers (37-3011), 20% of the weighting: a median of $18.39 an hour, in line with the US median of $18.82. The middle half of them earn between $17.40 and $21.18 an hour. About 1,760 work in the metro. That is 57.0 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 $170 to the midpoint estimate; the 25th percentile takes off about $110. That is a swing of roughly 2.8% to 4.4% of the total, which is useful for judging whether a bid reflects wages or something else, such as scope or margin.

Wichita has 308,570 jobs in total (BLS, May 2025), ranking 82nd by size among the 300 metros on this site.

Is Wichita cheap or dear? The local comparison

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 $3,750 to $4,350 across Wichita and its five closest metros.

Out of the 300 metros we cover, Wichita ranks #214 for the cost of this job (#1 is the most expensive). Statewide, Wichita is 3% below the Kansas figure.

Elsewhere in Kansas

Metros of a similar size

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