Wood fence cost in Provo, UT

Provo: what basic, standard and premium work costs

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

Planning more than one job in Provo?

Because every project leans on different trades, Provo's wage level does not move all prices equally. Against the US midpoint, aluminum fence runs −4% and wood deck −6%.

Wood fence: what moves the price in Provo

• Wood species

  A 6-ft privacy fence is $25-$50 per linear foot installed; an 8-ft one goes up to $75. Tropical hardwood privacy fences run $35-$55 (HomeGuide).

• Style

  Split-rail and picket styles are cheaper to build than privacy fence, which uses more boards and takes more labor.

• Height and permits

  Fences over about 6 ft often need a permit and a setback check. Permits run $40-$150.

Provo against nearby metros and the rest of Utah

Same job, same size (150 linear ft), priced for the nearest metros. Salt Lake City is the priciest of the group at $5,250. St. George is the cheapest at $4,900.

Across 300 US metros, Provo comes in at #163 from the top. The priciest is Honolulu, HI at $7,050; the cheapest is Brownsville, TX at $4,350 (midpoints, 150 linear ft). Statewide, Provo is 0% above the Utah figure.

Other Utah metros

Cities with a workforce like Provo's

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

When to schedule wood fence in Provo

We use NOAA's 1991-2020 climate normals for Provo Byu (in the city). These are 30-year monthly averages, not forecasts.

February through June and September through November are the stretches where exterior installation runs into the fewest weather problems in Provo (8 of 12 months). January and December have an average daytime high under 45°F; July and August have an average daytime high of 90°F or more.

In January and December the average high stays below 45°F. Sealants, adhesives and some materials, such as vinyl, are harder to install well in the cold, and short daylight cuts the working day.

Provo gets about 17 inches of precipitation in a normal year, including roughly 45 inches of snow. The wettest months are January, April and May (2.0 inches in May). Inside the workable window, June and September are the driest, at 0.9 and 1.2 inches. The station averages about 74 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.

Local wages behind the labor line

Wages are the part of this estimate that changes most from town to town. 2 trades carry the job here, and each is compared with its US median. The weighted result for Provo is 0.92 times the national level.

For carpenters (47-2031, weighted 60%) the local median is $25.59 an hour, which is 12% below the national $29.12. The middle half of them earn between $21.92 and $29.39 an hour. BLS counts 3,080 of them working in the area, 101.1 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 43.1), so the local bench is deeper than average.

Construction laborers (47-2061), 40% of the weighting: a median of $22.43 an hour, in line with the US median of $22.66. The middle half of them earn between $18.25 and $25.27 an hour. About 4,760 work in the metro. That is 156.2 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 70.5 nationally, which suggests plenty of local crews to bid.

Quotes come from real crews, not medians. If the carpenters on your job are paid at the 75th percentile ($29.39 an hour) instead of the median, the labor line grows by about $180. At the 25th percentile ($21.92) it shrinks by about $170. The total moves by 3.5% or 3.4%, so wages alone rarely explain a quote that is far outside our range.

For context on the local economy, BLS counts 304,660 jobs in the Provo-Orem-Lehi area. That makes it the 84th largest of the 300 metros we cover, with 0.20% of US employment.

Extras that change the Provo total

Extras are quoted nationally and then scaled to Provo by the average of the local wage index (0.92) and goods index (0.96), a factor of 0.94. 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.