Paver patio cost in Kennewick, WA

Kennewick weather and the paver patio calendar

Climate numbers on this page come from NOAA's 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals at the nearest suitable station, Pasco Tri Cities Ap (5 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 Kennewick are March through June and September through October: 6 of 12. Outside them, January, February, November and December have an average overnight low at or below freezing (32°F), and July and August have an average daytime high of 90°F or more.

In January, February, 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 112 days a year with a low at or below 32°F at this station.

Kennewick gets about 8 inches of precipitation in a normal year. The wettest months are January, November and December (1.0 inches in January). Inside the workable window, June and September are the driest, at 0.6 and 0.3 inches. The station averages about 55 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.

Optional extras in Kennewick

Add-ons start from national price ranges and are scaled by 1.13 for Kennewick, which is the average of the area's wage index (1.21) and goods price index (1.05). The estimator above can add them to your total.

Planning more than one job in Kennewick?

Jobs that often go together with paver patio are priced below at their usual sizes, using the same Kennewick wage and price inputs. Compared with national midpoints, concrete driveway comes out highest (+20%) and wood deck lowest (+6%); the gap comes from the trades each job uses.

How Kennewick compares

Of the five closest metros, 4 are cheaper than Kennewick. Coeur d'Alene is the lowest at about $4,250 (midpoint, 300 sq ft), 150 miles away.

Out of the 300 metros we cover, Kennewick ranks #31 for the cost of this job (#1 is the most expensive). Statewide, Kennewick is 2% below the Washington figure.

Elsewhere in Washington

Metros of a similar size

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

What local crews earn in Kennewick

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 Kennewick the blend is 1.21.

For construction laborers (47-2061, weighted 50%) the local median is $26.32 an hour, which is 16% above the national $22.66. The middle half of them earn between $21.79 and $33.92 an hour. BLS counts 1,110 of them working in the area, 85.7 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 70.5), so the local bench is deeper than average.

Brickmasons and blockmasons (47-2021) carry 30% of the labor weighting. BLS does not publish this trade for the Kennewick metro, so we used the Washington statewide median: $40.00 an hour against $29.87 for the US. The middle half of them earn between $35.14 and $49.11 an hour.

Landscaping and groundskeeping workers (37-3011), 20% of the weighting: a median of $21.73 an hour, 15% above the US median of $18.82. The middle half of them earn between $18.91 and $23.80 an hour. About 970 work in the metro. That is 74.9 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 61.3 nationally, which suggests plenty of local crews to bid.

A quick sensitivity check: moving the lead trade (construction laborers) from the median to the 75th percentile wage adds about $430 to the midpoint estimate; the 25th percentile takes off about $250. That is a swing of roughly 5.3% to 8.8% of the total, which is useful for judging whether a bid reflects wages or something else, such as scope or margin.

Kennewick-Richland has 129,490 jobs in total (BLS, May 2025), ranking 169th by size among the 300 metros on this site.

Cost by quality level and size in Kennewick

The cited range is split into basic, standard and premium bands, then scaled to Kennewick. 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).

Paver patio: what moves the price in Kennewick

• 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.