Paver patio cost in Florence, SC

Florence: what basic, standard and premium work costs

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

Add-ons priced for Florence

Extras are quoted nationally and then scaled to Florence by the average of the local wage index (0.89) and goods index (0.96), a factor of 0.93. 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 Florence?

Because every project leans on different trades, Florence's wage level does not move all prices equally. Against the US midpoint, concrete slab runs −9% and concrete driveway −11%.

Florence 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 Florence is 0.89 times the national level.

Construction laborers (47-2061), 50% of the weighting: a median of $21.75 an hour, 4% below the US median of $22.66. The middle half of them earn between $18.11 and $26.11 an hour. About 650 work in the metro. That is 73.0 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 Florence metro, so we used the South Carolina statewide median: $23.56 an hour against $29.87 for the US. The middle half of them earn between $21.85 and $29.66 an hour.

For landscaping and groundskeeping workers (37-3011, weighted 20%) the local median is $16.56 an hour, which is 12% below the national $18.82. The middle half of them earn between $14.11 and $17.77 an hour. BLS counts 380 of them working in the area, 42.7 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 ($26.11 an hour) instead of the median, the labor line grows by about $250. At the 25th percentile ($18.11) it shrinks by about $200. The total moves by 6.3% or 5.3%, so wages alone rarely explain a quote that is far outside our range.

For context on the local economy, BLS counts 89,060 jobs in the Florence area. That makes it the 221st largest of the 300 metros we cover, with 0.06% of US employment.

Is Florence 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 $3,650 to $4,000 across Florence and its five closest metros.

Across 300 US metros, Florence comes in at #226 from the top. The priciest is Kahului, HI at $5,650; the cheapest is Dothan, AL at $3,500 (midpoints, 300 sq ft). Statewide, Florence is 1% above the South Carolina figure.

Other South Carolina metros

Cities with a workforce like Florence's

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

Climate in Florence: timing your paver patio job

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

September through June is the stretch where digging, grading and setting material in the ground runs into the fewest weather problems in Florence (10 of 12 months). July and August have an average daytime high of 90°F or more.

Florence gets about 45 inches of precipitation in a normal year. The wettest months are June, July and August (5.8 inches in July). Inside the workable window, February and November are the driest, at 3.0 and 2.6 inches. The station averages about 70 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 Florence 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.