Stamped concrete cost in Mississippi

Stamped concrete: what moves the price in Mississippi

• Pattern and color

  Basic to average coloring runs $8-$19 per sq ft. A 2-car stamped driveway runs $12-$18 per sq ft (HomeGuide); Estimators.us puts decorative slabs at $15-$30.

• Specialist labor

  Stamping has to be done before the concrete sets, so crews arrive in larger teams and charge for it.

• Sealing and vapor barrier

  Sealer is usually quoted separately; vapor barrier material is $0.20-$1.50 per sq ft depending on thickness (HomeGuide).

• Not included

  These prices don't include site prep that depends on the project: demolition, grading, or a thicker base.

Add-ons priced for Mississippi

Extras are quoted nationally and then scaled to Mississippi by the average of the local wage index (0.78) and goods index (0.96), a factor of 0.87. 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.

Quality levels and sizes in Mississippi

The cited range is cut into three overlapping bands (basic, standard and premium) and scaled to statewide Mississippi wages and prices. The grid prices the same bands at 3 common sizes.

Related projects, priced for Mississippi

The table prices neighboring jobs at their usual sizes using statewide Mississippi wages and prices. Against national midpoints, concrete slab comes out highest (−12%) and concrete driveway lowest (−16%), because each job leans on different trades.

Which Mississippi city is cheapest for stamped concrete?

1 of the 3 metros sit above the statewide midpoint of $4,900, and the top-to-bottom gap is 4%. Each row prices the default size with that metro's own BLS wages and BEA price levels, so the gap between rows is real local variation rather than a flat markup.

Mississippi against its neighbors

Mississippi ranks 50 of 51 (the 50 states plus DC) for stamped concrete, where 1 is the most expensive. The costliest is Hawaii at $7,800 and the cheapest Arkansas at $4,850, both for 400 sq ft at the midpoint. Mississippi sits at $4,900. The five states closest by workforce center are listed below.

Wages behind the Mississippi number

Statewide wages come from BLS's state-level estimates, which blend big cities with small towns and rural areas. 3 trades drive the labor line for this job, and the weighted ratio against the national wage level is 0.78 for Mississippi.

For cement masons and concrete finishers (47-2051, weighted 60%) the local median is $21.14 an hour, which is 23% below the national $27.41. The middle half of them earn between $17.50 and $22.89 an hour. BLS counts 930 of them working in the state, 8.0 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 13.3), so the local bench is thinner than average.

Construction laborers (47-2061), 30% of the weighting: a median of $18.13 an hour, 20% below the US median of $22.66. The middle half of them earn between $16.25 and $22.01 an hour. About 8,800 work in the state. That is 75.7 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 70.5 nationally, so the supply of crews looks typical.

For operating engineers and other construction equipment operators (47-2073, weighted 10%) the local median is $22.79 an hour, which is 21% below the national $28.78. The middle half of them earn between $19.00 and $27.50 an hour. BLS counts 4,170 of them working in the state, 35.9 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 30.7), so the local bench is deeper than average.

A crew paid at the 75th percentile for cement masons and concrete finishers ($22.89 an hour) would add about $100 to the statewide midpoint; one at the 25th percentile ($17.50) would take off about $220. Use that as a rough guide to how far a bid can sit from our midpoint on wages alone.

BLS counts 1,163,030 jobs across Mississippi (May 2025), which is 0.7% of US employment.

Weather windows across Mississippi

Season matters for stamped concrete. For each Mississippi metro below we took NOAA's 1991-2020 monthly normals from the nearest suitable station and counted comfortable months for pouring concrete.

Gulfport has the longest comfortable season of the metros we cover in Mississippi at 10 months (September through June); Jackson has the shortest at 7 (February through May and September through November). Rainfall runs from 51 inches a year in Jackson to 63 inches in Gulfport.

We do not adjust prices by month, because we have no reliable published data on seasonal pricing. Timing is still worth raising when you collect bids.