Updated October 2026 · Checked against empiretoday.com

Empire Today Carpet Cost: What It Publishes, and What It Does Not

Q: What does Empire Today's All-Inclusive Price Estimate include?

Empire's coupons page lists product cost, measuring, professional installation, padding or underlayment, moving furniture, haul-away of the old flooring, thresholds and transitions, and clean-up. It does not mention stairs, so ask whether stairs are priced in and how.

Q: Does Empire Today really install the next day?

Its fine print says next-day installation is "On in-stock carpet and flooring styles only in select areas. Excludes floor prep." So a special-order carpet, an area Empire does not cover for next-day work, or a floor that needs preparation will take longer.

Q: Is there an Empire Today coupon?

On 14 October 2026 Empire offered "$300 off $3,000+. New email subscribers only. Exclusions and terms in welcome email." No end date was shown. At the minimum order that is 10 percent off; on a larger order it is a smaller share. Empire also runs a Low Price Guarantee, valid within 30 days of the order and at least one business day before installation, which excludes competitors' free offers, special offers, rebates, financing offers and installation specials.

Q: Empire Today or Home Depot for carpet?

They publish different things. Home Depot publishes installation from $0.69 per sq ft and prices furniture moving, removal and disposal separately. Empire publishes no rate and folds furniture moving and haul-away into one estimate. The only fair comparison is two written totals for the same carpet weight, pad and square yards, with removal included on the Home Depot side.

Empire Today publishes no carpet price, per square foot or per room: it gives an “All-Inclusive Price Estimate” after an in-home measure. Its published terms, checked 14 October 2026 on empiretoday.com: next-day installation applies to in-stock styles in select areas and excludes floor prep, and new email subscribers get $300 off $3,000+. As a yardstick, our model puts nylon carpet on 8 lb pad at $3.53 to $9.19 per sq ft installed, before removal.

Published price	None: in-home All-Inclusive Price Estimate
Estimate includes	Product, measuring, installation, pad or underlayment, moving furniture, haul-away, thresholds and transitions, clean-up
Stairs	Not mentioned: ask
Next-day install	“On in-stock carpet and flooring styles only in select areas. Excludes floor prep.”
Coupon	$300 off $3,000+, new email subscribers only, no end date shown
Price guarantee	Within 30 days of order; excludes competitors’ free offers, specials, rebates, financing and installation specials
Who installs	Installation is provided by contractors, per Empire’s page

A yardstick for an Empire estimate

Because Empire bundles everything into one figure, compare it with a sum that has the same parts. Our model for nylon or triexta on 8 lb rebond, with professional installation, is below. Empire’s estimate also covers furniture moving and haul-away, which these figures do not, so add the removal rate from any other quote (or use the calculator, which takes a removal rate) before comparing.

Job	Our model, installed
Per sq ft	$3.53 to $9.19
12x12 room	$510 to $1,320
1,000 sq ft	$3,530 to $9,190

These are not Empire’s prices; Empire does not publish any. They are carpet and pad at Home Depot and Lowe’s listed prices plus labor, so an estimate well above the top of the range for the same carpet weight is the point to ask what is driving it.

Reading the coupon

$300 off a $3,000 order is 10 percent; on a bigger order the share is smaller. The coupon is for new email subscribers, and its exclusions are in the welcome email rather than on the page, so read them before the appointment. Empire’s coupons page says the code is added to your appointment automatically. Multi-room fixed-price offers from other sellers are compared on the 3 rooms of carpet page.

Questions

How much does Empire Today charge for carpet?

Empire Today does not publish a price per square foot, per room or per job (checked 14 October 2026). You get an "All-Inclusive Price Estimate" after an in-home measure. As a yardstick, our model puts nylon or triexta carpet on 8 lb pad, installed, at $3.53 to $9.19 per sq ft, $510 to $1,320 for a 12x12 room, before removal. Empire's estimate includes furniture moving and haul-away of the old floor, so add your removal quote to our figure before comparing.

What does Empire Today's All-Inclusive Price Estimate include?

Does Empire Today really install the next day?

Is there an Empire Today coupon?

Empire Today or Home Depot for carpet?

Sources and method. Empire Today, home page offer terms (next-day installation on in-stock styles only in select areas, excluding floor prep; $300 off $3,000+ for new email subscribers; an All-Inclusive Price Estimate after an in-home measure; checked 14 October 2026); Empire Today, Coupons and Deals ($300 off $3,000+ for new email subscribers, what the All-Inclusive Price Estimate covers, same-day appointments; no multi-room price; checked 13 October 2026); The Home Depot, Carpet Installation Cost Guide (average cost per sq ft: carpet $1 to $4, padding $1.01, installation $0.69 for basic install; furniture moving, removal and disposal priced separately; checked 13 October 2026); The Home Depot, Installed Carpet listings by fiber (per sq ft prices of polyester, nylon, triexta, wool, olefin and berber carpet; checked 13 October 2026); Lowe's, carpet listings (nylon and polyester) (per sq ft prices of nylon and polyester carpet; checked 13 October 2026); The Home Depot, Carpet Padding listings (per sq ft prices of 6 lb and 8 lb pad, memory foam and moisture-barrier pad; checked 13 October 2026); Lowe's, carpet padding listings (per sq ft prices of rebond, fiber and foam pad; checked 13 October 2026); U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS May 2025, Carpet Installers (47-2041) (national and state hourly wages, read through the BLS public data API; checked 13 October 2026). Installed figures are our arithmetic on the cited inputs: carpet and pad at the retail prices shown, plus 10 percent for waste, plus labor from $0.69 per sq ft (Home Depot's published basic rate) to $1.60 (our estimate: $0.69 scaled by the BLS 90th to 10th percentile installer wage ratio). Removal, furniture moving and stair surcharges are not included.