Paver patio cost in Binghamton, NY

Climate in Binghamton: timing your paver patio job

We use NOAA's 1991-2020 climate normals for Binghamton (10 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 Binghamton (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 142 days a year with a low at or below 32°F at this station.

Binghamton gets about 42 inches of precipitation in a normal year, including roughly 87 inches of snow. The wettest months are June, August and September (4.7 inches in June). Inside the workable window, April and October are the driest, at 3.6 and 3.8 inches. The station averages about 2 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.

Is Binghamton cheap or dear? The local comparison

Same job, same size (300 sq ft), priced for the nearest metros. Kingston is the priciest of the group at $4,600. Allentown is the cheapest at $4,300.

Across 300 US metros, Binghamton comes in at #77 from the top. The priciest is Kahului, HI at $5,650; the cheapest is Dothan, AL at $3,500 (midpoints, 300 sq ft). Statewide, Binghamton is 7% below the New York figure.

Other New York metros

Cities with a workforce like Binghamton's

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

Optional extras in Binghamton

Extras are quoted nationally and then scaled to Binghamton by the average of the local wage index (1.14) and goods index (1.00), a factor of 1.07. 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.

Planning more than one job in Binghamton?

Because every project leans on different trades, Binghamton's wage level does not move all prices equally. Against the US midpoint, retaining wall runs +9% and wood deck +1%.

Binghamton 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 Binghamton is 1.14 times the national level.

Construction laborers (47-2061), 50% of the weighting: a median of $24.40 an hour, 8% above the US median of $22.66. The middle half of them earn between $21.53 and $35.23 an hour. About 650 work in the metro. That is 67.0 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 Binghamton metro, so we used the New York statewide median: $40.58 an hour against $29.87 for the US. The middle half of them earn between $35.65 and $51.73 an hour.

For landscaping and groundskeeping workers (37-3011, weighted 20%) the local median is $18.34 an hour, which is in line with the national $18.82. The middle half of them earn between $17.35 and $21.92 an hour. BLS counts 570 of them working in the area, 58.7 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 ($35.23 an hour) instead of the median, the labor line grows by about $610. At the 25th percentile ($21.53) it shrinks by about $160. The total moves by 13.3% or 3.5%, so wages alone rarely explain a quote that is far outside our range.

For context on the local economy, BLS counts 97,030 jobs in the Binghamton area. That makes it the 207th largest of the 300 metros we cover, with 0.06% of US employment.

Binghamton: what basic, standard and premium work costs

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

Specs and site conditions that change a Binghamton 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.