Stamped concrete cost in St. George, UT

Stamped concrete: what moves the price in St. George

• Not included

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

• 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.

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 St. George is 0.89 times the national level.

For cement masons and concrete finishers (47-2051, weighted 60%) the local median is $23.11 an hour, which is 16% below the national $27.41. The middle half of them earn between $22.22 and $28.78 an hour. BLS counts 520 of them working in the area, 57.5 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 13.3), so the local bench is deeper than average.

Construction laborers (47-2061), 30% of the weighting: a median of $21.96 an hour, 3% below the US median of $22.66. The middle half of them earn between $18.37 and $23.78 an hour. About 1,500 work in the metro. That is 165.7 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 70.5 nationally, which suggests plenty of local crews to bid.

For operating engineers and other construction equipment operators (47-2073, weighted 10%) the local median is $27.84 an hour, which is 3% below the national $28.78. The middle half of them earn between $23.59 and $29.54 an hour. BLS counts 670 of them working in the area, 74.0 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 30.7), so the local bench is deeper than average.

Quotes come from real crews, not medians. If the cement masons and concrete finishers on your job are paid at the 75th percentile ($28.78 an hour) instead of the median, the labor line grows by about $340. At the 25th percentile ($22.22) it shrinks by about $55. The total moves by 6.4% or 1.0%, so wages alone rarely explain a quote that is far outside our range.

For context on the local economy, BLS counts 90,500 jobs in the St. George area. That makes it the 219th largest of the 300 metros we cover, with 0.06% of US employment.

What nearby projects cost in St. George

Because every project leans on different trades, St. George's wage level does not move all prices equally. Against the US midpoint, gravel driveway runs −3% and concrete driveway −9%.

Is St. George 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 400 sq ft range from $5,200 to $5,650 across St. George and its five closest metros.

Across 300 US metros, St. George comes in at #189 from the top. The priciest is Kahului, HI at $8,150; the cheapest is McAllen, TX at $4,550 (midpoints, 400 sq ft). Statewide, St. George is 5% below the Utah figure.

Other Utah metros

Cities with a workforce like St. George's

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

When to schedule stamped concrete in St. George

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

April through May and October are the stretches where pouring concrete runs into the fewest weather problems in St. George (3 of 12 months). January, February, March, November and December have an average overnight low of 40°F or below; June, July, August and September have an average daytime high of 90°F or more.

The 40°F line is a deliberately cautious stand-in. The American Concrete Institute's cold-weather guide (ACI 306R-16) defines cold-weather concreting around an average daily air temperature below 40°F, which is colder than our test of an average overnight low at or below 40°F, so we flag a few extra shoulder months. In cold weather crews may need heated enclosures, insulating blankets or accelerated mixes, and those measures can raise a quote.

Heat matters for concrete as well. With average highs of 90°F or more in June, July, August and September, crews often start early, wet the base and plan for faster set times.

St. George gets about 9 inches of precipitation in a normal year, including roughly 1 inches of snow. The wettest months are January, February and August (1.4 inches in February). Inside the workable window, April and May are the driest, at 0.7 and 0.3 inches. The station averages about 128 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.

St. George: what basic, standard and premium work costs

Three bands are cut from the same cited range and localized for St. George 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 3 common sizes.

Extras that change the St. George total

Extras are quoted nationally and then scaled to St. George 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.