Your numbers
What should an exterior door replacement cost?
ZIP, the quantities you can actually measure, and a few named modifiers. The range is a CostAnswer estimate, not a market quantile.Each door is priced as 20 sq ft of a 36-inch by 80-inch prehung fiberglass leaf.
Common questions
Questions before you call a contractor
How much does an exterior door replacement cost?
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.
What is included in the exterior door estimate?
Count prehung exterior doors of similar size. Each door is modeled as a 36-inch by 80-inch (20 sq ft) leaf.
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.
Why is a contractor’s quote different?
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.
Why does exterior door cost differ in South Dakota?
Materials use the same national sourced baselines everywhere. Crew wages come from BLS OEWS for South Dakota, so labor-heavy jobs move more than material-heavy ones.
Trade wages here run about 21% below the national crew wage bill for this recipe.
How the estimate is worked out
- Unit. Count prehung exterior doors of similar size. Each door is modeled as a 36-inch by 80-inch (20 sq ft) leaf.
- Location. Labor is priced at South Dakota wages from the BLS wage survey. A ZIP code is matched to its county, which is close but not exact for ZIPs that cross county lines.
- Why there is a page for this state. Labor for this job costs noticeably more or less in South Dakota than nationally, enough to move the range. Material prices are the same in every state here.