National rank
5 of 30
4 towns model higher than this one.
Bath is the highest of the 4 South West towns we cover.
£212 a day, and 4 towns in the country model higher.
Modelled from two published statistics, South West median weekly pay of £728.70 and Bath housing at £400,000, both sourced 5 July 2026 and cross checked further down this page.
How Bath compares with the other 29
30 towns, one axis. Bath is the marked tick, at £212 on a rail running from £160 in Sunderland up to £235 in Guildford, which puts it £12 above the drawn £200 benchmark.
Bath £212
£200 benchmark
Bath sits £23 under Guildford at the top and £52 over Sunderland at the bottom.
Bath's marker is the decorator rate.
It is the trade the model anchors on, and the other 16 move with the same multiplier, from £148 for general labourer work to £297 for electrician work.
Regional rank
1 of 4
Against the 4 towns we model in the South West.
Versus benchmark
£12 up
6.0 percent above the £200 national decorator benchmark.
What 17 trades charge in Bath
17 trades, one town. A Bath day runs from £148 for general labourer up to £297 for electrician, which is a £149 span on what is otherwise the same working day, priced through South West earnings.
Every one of the 17 is the same 6 percent up on Bath geography, because one multiplier built from the South West pay and Bath house prices moves all of them together.
| Trade | Day rate | Modelled range |
|---|---|---|
| Electrician£17 above the £280 benchmark on Bath geography. | £297 | |
| Plumber£16 above the £270 benchmark on Bath geography. | £286 | |
| Bricklayer£16 above the £260 benchmark on Bath geography. | £276 | |
| Gas and Heating Engineer£16 above the £259 benchmark on Bath geography. | £275 | |
| General Builder£15 above the £253 benchmark on Bath geography. | £268 | |
| Carpenter and joiner£14 above the £240 benchmark on Bath geography. | £254 | |
| Roofer£14 above the £239 benchmark on Bath geography. | £253 | |
| Plasterer£14 above the £230 benchmark on Bath geography. | £244 | |
| Tiler£14 above the £229 benchmark on Bath geography. | £243 | |
| Drainage Engineer£14 above the £225 benchmark on Bath geography. | £239 | |
| Decorative Plasterer£14 above the £225 benchmark on Bath geography. | £239 | |
| GroundworkerModelled only£13 above the £213 benchmark on Bath geography. | £226 | |
| Painter and decorator£12 above the £200 benchmark on Bath geography. | £212 | |
| Handyman£11 above the £188 benchmark on Bath geography. | £199 | |
| Cladding Installer£11 above the £175 benchmark on Bath geography. | £186 | |
| Suspended Ceiling Installer£11 above the £175 benchmark on Bath geography. | £186 | |
| General Labourer£8 above the £140 benchmark on Bath geography. | £148 |
Heads upEvery benchmark is a modelled estimate published beside the spread the price guides themselves publish, and is never the median of a directory.Each row above says what Bath does to that trade.The day rate ranges the price guides publish are national, so they sit on each trade's own page rather than being reprinted on all 30 town pages.Follow any Bath row to read them.
Scale every bar drawn on £110 to £440Bar the modelled range, the rate x 0.75 and x 1.30No spread 1 of the 17 rows, marked MODELLED ONLY, where no UK price guide publishes a comparable day rate
Your next step
You have what 17 trades charge in Bath, so the next step is pricing one of your own jobs there.
The Rate Sorted calculator opens already set to Bath, so your own costs go in and a Bath rate you can quote with comes out.
How long the work takes in Bath
A rate prices a day and a job takes several of them. This site publishes a length for 3 of the 17 trades above, so those 3 Bath rates can be multiplied out.
A decorating job in Bath comes to £424 to £848, on the 5th dearest day rate of the 30 towns on this site.
decorating in Bath
£424 to £848
A painter and decorator day in Bath models at £212, and decorating a living room takes 2 to 4 days.Source: Robin Gofton, Decorator's Forum UK, job reports.How long does decorating take?
plastering in Bath
£268 to £415
A plasterer day in Bath models at £244, and skimming 35 square metres of wall and a 16 square metre ceiling takes 1.1 to 1.7 days.Source: Methvin plastering production rates, updated 1 August 2026, fast to slow.How long does plastering take?
tiling in Bath
£608 to £778
A tiler day in Bath models at £243, and fixing and grouting 20 square metres of bathroom wall takes 2.5 to 3.2 days.Source: Methvin tiling production rates, updated 1 August 2026, fast to slow.How long does tiling take?
Read the sumEach figure above is a Bath day rate multiplied by a job length, and Day rate or price per job? is where that sum is worked in full.It is our arithmetic rather than a price anybody quoted, and none of the 3 lengths is a Bath measurement.
Why Bath prices as it does
Bath carries South West prices without South West being the reason.
£400,000
The average house price, against £291,000 across the UK.
£728.70
The South West median weekly pay Bath is modelled on, 4.9 percent below the UK median of £766.60.
1.37x
Property against the UK average, 37 percent above it.
ONS local housing prices, April 2026 provisional, UK House Price Index.
Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) April 2025 regional medians.
Registers sourced 5 July 2026.
How Bath stands on the two cross checks
Both are published statistics. Neither sets a rate on this page, and neither is a survey of what anyone in Bath charged for a day of work; what they show is why Bath lands where it does.
South West WEEKLY PAY
£728.70
Bath is modelled on the South West median for full time work, according to ONS ASHE April 2025.It is 4.9 percent below the UK median of £766.60 a week, and Bath models at £212 a decorator day on it.South West ranks 7 of the 11 regions on the register, and Bath is 1 of the 4 South West towns we model on it.
Bath HOUSE PRICES
£400,000
The Bath average, data from the ONS local housing price pages, April 2026 provisional.That is 1.37 times the UK average of £291,000, per the UK House Price Index.4 of the 30 towns we cover have more expensive housing.
Bath questions
The same answers the structured data on this page gives a search engine, word for word, and every figure in them is a Bath figure printed above.
What is a typical day rate in Bath?
A decorator day in Bath models at £212.
That is number 5 of the 30 towns on this site.
Across the 17 trades a Bath day runs from £148 for general labourer work up to £297 for electrician work, every one of them modelled on South West earnings and Bath house prices.
Which trade charges the most per day in Bath?
Electrician, at £297 a day.
General Labourer work is the cheapest of the 17, at £148.
That leaves a £149 span for the same working day in the same town, and it happens because every trade carries its own national benchmark before any Bath geography is applied to it.
Is Bath dearer than Bristol?
Bath is the dearer of the two: £212 in Bath against £206 in Bristol, a £6 gap on a decorator day.
Bath and Bristol both sit in the South West.
Bath ranks 1 of the 4 towns we model there.
Why are Bath rates above the national benchmark?
Two published statistics move the Bath figure: South West median weekly pay of £728.70, 7 of the 11 regions on the register, and a local average house price of £400,000, 5 of the 30 towns.
Together they put Bath £12 over the £200 national decorator benchmark.
That is 6.0 percent up.
Can I use these Bath figures as a quote?
No. £212 is a modelled town figure, and the modelled range beside it, £159 to £276, is arithmetic on that figure rather than a measurement of Bath jobs.
16 of the 17 Bath rows carry a spread that UK price guides publish nationally, on the trade's own page, and 1 are modelled with none.
Take the data
17 Bath rows, £148 to £297. Each row carries its own provenance, so a modelled Bath figure can never be read as a sourced one.
Download · CSVbath.csvOne row per trade, with the rate, the modelled range and the published spread.
Cite this pageThe Day Rate Report, Bath day rates, 30 September 2026, https://thedayrate.co.uk/day-rates/bath/
Embed this figure
The Bath card carries the decorator rate and the date it was sourced, and the link goes to this page.
<a href="https://thedayrate.co.uk/day-rates/bath/"><img src="https://thedayrate.co.uk/og/day-rates-bath.png" alt="Day rates for 17 trades in Bath, from The Day Rate Report" width="1200" height="630"></a>
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