Paver patio cost in Richmond, VA

What nearby projects cost in Richmond

Jobs that often go together with paver patio are priced below at their usual sizes, using the same Richmond wage and price inputs. Compared with national midpoints, retaining wall comes out highest (−8%) and concrete driveway lowest (−11%); the gap comes from the trades each job uses.

Add-ons priced for Richmond

Add-ons start from national price ranges and are scaled by 0.93 for Richmond, which is the average of the area's wage index (0.89) and goods price index (0.97). The estimator above can add them to your total.

Paver patio: what moves the price in Richmond

• 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.

How Richmond compares

Of the five closest metros, 2 are cheaper than Richmond. Lynchburg is the lowest at about $3,750 (midpoint, 300 sq ft), 95 miles away.

Out of the 300 metros we cover, Richmond ranks #223 for the cost of this job (#1 is the most expensive). Statewide, Richmond is 4% below the Virginia figure.

Elsewhere in Virginia

Metros of a similar size

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

The best months for paver patio in Richmond

Climate numbers on this page come from NOAA's 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals at the nearest suitable station, Richmond Intl Ap (10 miles from the city center). They are 30-year averages, so any one year can run hotter, colder or wetter.

For digging, grading and setting material in the ground, the comfortable months in Richmond are March through June and August through November: 8 of 12. Outside them, January, February and December have an average overnight low at or below freezing (32°F), and July has 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 74 days a year with a low at or below 32°F at this station.

Richmond gets about 46 inches of precipitation in a normal year, including roughly 9 inches of snow. The wettest months are June, August and September (4.9 inches in August). Inside the workable window, April and November are the driest, at 3.2 and 3.1 inches. The station averages about 45 days a year at 90°F or above.

We do not adjust the estimate by month, because we have no reliable published data on seasonal pricing. It is still worth asking contractors whether an off-peak start date changes their bid.

Who does the work: Richmond trade wages

The labor line is built from BLS wage data, one trade at a time. This job draws on 3 trades. We compare each trade's local median with the US median, weight the ratios by how much of the job each trade does, and apply the blend to the national labor cost. For Richmond the blend is 0.89.

For construction laborers (47-2061, weighted 50%) the local median is $20.39 an hour, which is 10% below the national $22.66. The middle half of them earn between $18.21 and $22.61 an hour. BLS counts 4,560 of them working in the area, 69.1 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 70.5), so the local bench is about average.

For brickmasons and blockmasons (47-2021, weighted 30%) the local median is $24.90 an hour, which is 17% below the national $29.87. The middle half of them earn between $22.04 and $28.18 an hour. BLS counts 430 of them working in the area, 6.5 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 3.4), so the local bench is deeper than average.

Landscaping and groundskeeping workers (37-3011), 20% of the weighting: a median of $17.87 an hour, 5% below the US median of $18.82. The middle half of them earn between $17.28 and $21.41 an hour. About 4,360 work in the metro. That is 66.0 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 61.3 nationally, so the supply of crews looks typical.

A quick sensitivity check: moving the lead trade (construction laborers) from the median to the 75th percentile wage adds about $120 to the midpoint estimate; the 25th percentile takes off about $120. That is a swing of roughly 3.2% to 3.2% of the total, which is useful for judging whether a bid reflects wages or something else, such as scope or margin.

Richmond has 660,350 jobs in total (BLS, May 2025), ranking 45th by size among the 300 metros on this site.

Richmond: what basic, standard and premium work costs

The cited range is split into basic, standard and premium bands, then scaled to Richmond. Bands overlap, because plenty of standard jobs cost as much as a light premium one. Sizes run from 12x12 (144 sq ft) to pool deck (800 sq ft).