How much does a contractor cost in your city? (Real permit data)
Pick a trade and a U.S. metro or state to see the real median home-service cost, the typical 25th–75th percentile range, the sample size, and the permit-year range — every figure from real public building permits in the ProFix Real Cost Index, not a crowd-sourced guess.
- Typical range (P25–P75)
- $1,000 – $4,000
- Sample size
- n = 14,792
- Permit years
- 2018–2020
quotes cluster — the priciest quarter of jobs runs about 4× the cheapest, so a single quote is usually representative.
Based on real permit-declared values for electrician work in Dallas, TX.
These are real permit-declared values, not a quote. A permit's declared construction value is a self-reported public-record figure a city uses to assess fees — a strong proxy for cost that can run below the out-the-door invoice. Each figure shows its sample size (n); use it to sanity-check a quote against the public record, then get local quotes.
How to read this number
The big figure is the median declared construction value on real building permits for that trade and place — the public-record number a city uses to assess fees. It is a strong but imperfect proxy for what you pay: it can run below the out-the-door price, and a higher median can reflect bigger projects, not just higher prices. That is why the card shows its sample size (n) and the 25th–75th percentile range. When we don't have enough permits for your exact metro, we show the state or national benchmark and label it, rather than invent a local number. Use this to sanity-check whether a quote in your city is in line with the public record, then get local quotes.
Hand the question to your preferred assistant — it will use ProFix Directory's open MCP server and llms.txt as context.