Paver patio cost in Minnesota

Basic, standard or premium: Minnesota 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 12x12 (144 sq ft) to pool deck (800 sq ft).

How Minnesota compares with nearby states

Minnesota ranks 3 of 51 (the 50 states plus DC) for paver patio, where 1 is the most expensive. The costliest is Hawaii at $5,550 and the cheapest Mississippi at $3,650, both for 300 sq ft at the midpoint. Minnesota sits at $5,100. The five states closest by workforce center are listed below.

Why two Minnesota quotes can differ

• Paver material

  Pavers alone average $2-$4 per sq ft but the full range is $1-$15 depending on concrete, brick, or natural stone (HomeGuide).

• 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.

• Permit

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

Related projects, priced for Minnesota

Each project weights the trades differently, so Minnesota's wage level does not push every price by the same amount. Compared with the US midpoint, retaining wall is +19% and wood deck +5%.

Extras that change the Minnesota total

Add-ons start from national price ranges and are scaled by 1.17 for Minnesota, which is the average of the area's wage index (1.34) and goods price index (1.01). The estimator above can add them to your total.

Minnesota labor market for paver patio

Minnesota's labor line is priced from 3 trades, each compared with its US median wage. After weighting by each trade's share of the work, the state comes out at 1.34 times the national level.

For construction laborers (47-2061, weighted 50%) the local median is $28.97 an hour, which is 28% above the national $22.66. The middle half of them earn between $23.28 and $38.32 an hour. BLS counts 28,530 of them working in the state, 96.7 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 70.5), so the local bench is deeper than average.

For brickmasons and blockmasons (47-2021, weighted 30%) the local median is $45.78 an hour, which is 53% above the national $29.87. The middle half of them earn between $40.81 and $47.51 an hour. BLS counts 1,040 of them working in the state, 3.5 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 $22.41 an hour, 19% above the US median of $18.82. The middle half of them earn between $17.77 and $24.19 an hour. About 17,610 work in the state. That is 59.7 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 61.3 nationally, so the supply of crews looks typical.

A crew paid at the 75th percentile for construction laborers ($38.32 an hour) would add about $530 to the statewide midpoint; one at the 25th percentile ($23.28) would take off about $320. Use that as a rough guide to how far a bid can sit from our midpoint on wages alone.

BLS counts 2,949,820 jobs across Minnesota (May 2025), which is 1.9% of US employment.

Weather windows across Minnesota

Weather decides when digging and ground work can happen, and Minnesota 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.

Minneapolis has the longest comfortable season of the metros we cover in Minnesota at 7 months (April through October); St. Cloud has the shortest at 6 (May through October). Rainfall runs from 28 inches a year in St. Cloud to 35 inches in Rochester.

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.

Paver patio cost by metro in Minnesota

1 of the 4 metros sit above the statewide midpoint of $5,100, and the top-to-bottom gap is 10%. 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.