Paver patio cost in Oklahoma City, OK

Oklahoma City against nearby metros and the rest of Oklahoma

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 $3,700 to $4,150 across Oklahoma City and its five closest metros.

Across 300 US metros, Oklahoma City comes in at #265 from the top. The priciest is Kahului, HI at $5,650; the cheapest is Dothan, AL at $3,500 (midpoints, 300 sq ft). Statewide, Oklahoma City is 1% above the Oklahoma figure.

Other Oklahoma metros

Cities with a workforce like Oklahoma City's

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

Related projects, priced for Oklahoma City

Because every project leans on different trades, Oklahoma City's wage level does not move all prices equally. Against the US midpoint, concrete slab runs −11% and concrete driveway −14%.

Paver patio: what moves the price in Oklahoma City

• 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.

Pick a size, pick a tier: paver patio pricing in Oklahoma City

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

When to schedule paver patio in Oklahoma City

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

March through June and September through November are the stretches where digging, grading and setting material in the ground runs into the fewest weather problems in Oklahoma City (7 of 12 months). January, February and December have an average overnight low at or below freezing (32°F); 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 72 days a year with a low at or below 32°F at this station.

Oklahoma City gets about 36 inches of precipitation in a normal year, including roughly 7 inches of snow. The wettest months are May, June and September (5.3 inches in May). Inside the workable window, March and November are the driest, at 2.5 and 1.7 inches. The station averages about 74 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.

Extras that change the Oklahoma City total

Extras are quoted nationally and then scaled to Oklahoma City by the average of the local wage index (0.85) and goods index (0.94), a factor of 0.90. 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.

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 Oklahoma City is 0.85 times the national level.

Construction laborers (47-2061), 50% of the weighting: a median of $18.96 an hour, 16% below the US median of $22.66. The middle half of them earn between $17.79 and $22.89 an hour. About 5,570 work in the metro. That is 82.2 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 70.5 nationally, which suggests plenty of local crews to bid.

Brickmasons and blockmasons (47-2021), 30% of the weighting: a median of $24.62 an hour, 18% below the US median of $29.87. The middle half of them earn between $21.85 and $27.90 an hour. About 260 work in the metro. That is 3.8 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 3.4 nationally, so the supply of crews looks typical.

For landscaping and groundskeeping workers (37-3011, weighted 20%) the local median is $17.68 an hour, which is 6% below the national $18.82. The middle half of them earn between $15.47 and $19.45 an hour. BLS counts 3,940 of them working in the area, 58.1 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 ($22.89 an hour) instead of the median, the labor line grows by about $220. At the 25th percentile ($17.79) it shrinks by about $65. The total moves by 5.9% or 1.8%, so wages alone rarely explain a quote that is far outside our range.

For context on the local economy, BLS counts 677,680 jobs in the Oklahoma City area. That makes it the 44th largest of the 300 metros we cover, with 0.44% of US employment.