How Much Does It Cost to Build a Deck in Washington?

Put your ZIP code and the size of the job into the form on this page. It prices the labor from what that trade earns in your area (BLS), adds what employers pay on top of wages, and lists every material and piece of equipment it counts.

The result is a range for planning, not a bid. If a key material has no published price yet, the range says so instead of guessing.

Length × width of the walking surface, in square feet.

The work is priced at carpentry wages. The options on the form change the hours or the materials; they do not pull an average price for your city.

A quote prices your house: how easy it is to reach, what your permit office charges, and how busy that company is. This page prices a standard version of the job from published wages and material costs.

Paste a written bid into Check a quote to see whether it sits low, in the middle or high against the same job.

The default recipe includes standard perimeter code-compliant railings for elevated decks.

Custom multi-flight staircases, built-in bench seating, pergolas, or composite brand-name decking require additional materials and labor.

Materials use the same national sourced baselines everywhere. Crew wages come from BLS OEWS for Washington, so labor-heavy jobs move more than material-heavy ones.

Trade wages here run about 22% above the national crew wage bill for this recipe.