Paver patio cost in Hattiesburg, MS

Hattiesburg: what basic, standard and premium work costs

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

How Hattiesburg compares

Same job, same size (300 sq ft), priced for the nearest metros. Slidell is the priciest of the group at $3,800.

Across 300 US metros, Hattiesburg comes in at #298 from the top. The priciest is Kahului, HI at $5,650; the cheapest is Dothan, AL at $3,500 (midpoints, 300 sq ft). Statewide, Hattiesburg is 2% below the Mississippi figure.

Other Mississippi metros

Cities with a workforce like Hattiesburg's

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

Local wages behind the labor line

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 Hattiesburg is 0.77 times the national level.

Construction laborers (47-2061), 50% of the weighting: a median of $17.17 an hour, 24% below the US median of $22.66. The middle half of them earn between $14.92 and $19.52 an hour. About 420 work in the metro. That is 67.5 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 Hattiesburg metro, so we used the Mississippi statewide median: $23.47 an hour against $29.87 for the US. The middle half of them earn between $17.90 and $25.31 an hour.

For landscaping and groundskeeping workers (37-3011, weighted 20%) the local median is $14.23 an hour, which is 24% below the national $18.82. The middle half of them earn between $13.36 and $17.47 an hour. BLS counts 260 of them working in the area, 41.8 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 61.3), so the local bench is thinner than average.

Quotes come from real crews, not medians. If the construction laborers on your job are paid at the 75th percentile ($19.52 an hour) instead of the median, the labor line grows by about $130. At the 25th percentile ($14.92) it shrinks by about $130. The total moves by 3.7% or 3.6%, so wages alone rarely explain a quote that is far outside our range.

For context on the local economy, BLS counts 62,230 jobs in the Hattiesburg area. That makes it the 280th largest of the 300 metros we cover, with 0.04% of US employment.

Optional extras in Hattiesburg

Extras are quoted nationally and then scaled to Hattiesburg by the average of the local wage index (0.77) and goods index (0.96), a factor of 0.86. 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.

When to schedule paver patio in Hattiesburg

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

September through May is the stretch where digging, grading and setting material in the ground runs into the fewest weather problems in Hattiesburg (9 of 12 months). June, July and August have an average daytime high of 90°F or more.

Hattiesburg gets about 59 inches of precipitation in a normal year. The wettest months are January, June and July (5.8 inches in June). Inside the workable window, October and November are the driest, at 3.7 and 3.7 inches. The station averages about 96 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.

Specs and site conditions that change a Hattiesburg bid

• 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.

Planning more than one job in Hattiesburg?

Because every project leans on different trades, Hattiesburg's wage level does not move all prices equally. Against the US midpoint, wood deck runs −11% and concrete driveway −17%.