Carpet Installation Cost in Pennsylvania (2026): $3.42 to $8.95 per Sq Ft
Carpet installation in Pennsylvania costs about $3.42 to $8.95 per sq ft for nylon or triexta carpet on 8 lb pad, installed: $490 to $1,290 for a 12x12 room and $3,420 to $8,950 for 1,000 sq ft, before removal. The labor line is scaled to Pennsylvania’s carpet installer wage, a mean $23.23 an hour in May 2025, 0.85 times the national $27.40 (BLS). Carpet and pad are national Home Depot and Lowe’s prices; the method is at the foot of the page.
Pennsylvania carpet cost by grade and room size
Grade
Per sq ft
12x12 room
1,000 sq ft
Budget polyester, 6 lb rebond
$1.84–$7.25
$270–$1,040
$1,840–$7,250
Standard nylon or triexta, 8 lb rebond
$3.42–$8.95
$490–$1,290
$3,420–$8,950
Premium wool, memory foam
$4.67–$15.11
$670–$2,180
$4,670–$15,110
Installation labor in Pennsylvania works out at $0.59 to $1.36 per sq ft in this model: Home Depot’s published $0.69 basic rate at the low end, our estimate at the high end, both times the state wage ratio. Stairs, removal and furniture moving are extra; price them in the carpet cost calculator, or see carpet labor cost per square foot.
Pennsylvania labor
Pennsylvania carpet installers earned a mean $23.23 an hour in May 2025, 0.85 times the national mean (BLS), so the labor line here sits below the national rate. Carpet and pad are national prices.
Pennsylvania contractor registration
The Home Improvement Consumer Protection Act (Act 132 of 2008) names flooring as home improvement and covers jobs over $500. A contractor must register with the Attorney General's Bureau of Consumer Protection unless their home improvement work totalled under $5,000 the previous year. The definition includes subcontractors who install for a home improvement retailer, so the installer a big-box store sends needs a registration number too. Ask for it; registered contractors must put it on their contracts and estimates.
Questions
About $3.42 to $8.95 per sq ft installed for nylon or triexta carpet on 8 lb rebond pad, so a 12x12 room is $490 to $1,290 and 1,000 sq ft is $3,420 to $8,950, before removal. Budget polyester starts at $1.84 per sq ft and wool reaches $15.11. These are our arithmetic on national Home Depot and Lowe's carpet and pad prices, with labor scaled to Pennsylvania's carpet installer wage (BLS, May 2025). A written quote is the only firm price.
Sources and method.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); 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); 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); U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS May 2025 state file (oesm25st.zip), Carpet Installers (47-2041) (mean hourly wage and employment for carpet installers in each state; no wage published for ME, RI, ND, WY, DC or NC; checked 15 October 2026); Pennsylvania Home Improvement Consumer Protection Act (Act 132 of 2008) (contractors register with the Attorney General unless their home improvements totalled under $5,000 the previous year; flooring is named as home improvement; covers jobs over $500, including subcontractors installing for a home improvement retailer; checked 15 October 2026). State figures are our arithmetic on the cited inputs: carpet and pad at national retail prices plus 10 percent for waste, plus labor from $0.69 per sq ft (Home Depot's published basic rate) to $1.60 (our estimate), multiplied by the state's mean hourly wage for carpet installers over the national mean (BLS OEWS May 2025). Removal, furniture moving and stair surcharges are not included.
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