National rank
26 of 30
25 towns model higher than this one.
Liverpool models £25 under the national decorator rate.
£175 a day, 26 of 30, and 2 of 2 in North West.
Modelled from two published statistics, North West median weekly pay of £734.20 and Liverpool housing at £184,000, both sourced 5 July 2026 and cross checked further down this page.
How Liverpool compares with the other 29
30 towns, one axis. Liverpool is the marked tick, at £175 on a rail running from £160 in Sunderland up to £235 in Guildford, which puts it £25 below the drawn £200 benchmark.
Liverpool £175
£200 benchmark
Liverpool sits £60 under Guildford at the top and £15 over Sunderland at the bottom.
Liverpool's marker is the decorator rate.
It is the trade the model anchors on, and the other 16 move with the same multiplier, from £123 for general labourer work to £245 for electrician work.
Regional rank
2 of 2
Against the 2 towns we model in the North West.
Versus benchmark
£25 down
12.5 percent below the £200 national decorator benchmark.
What 17 trades charge in Liverpool
17 trades, one town. A Liverpool day runs from £123 for general labourer up to £245 for electrician, which is a £122 span on what is otherwise the same working day, priced through North West earnings.
Every one of the 17 is the same 12 to 13 percent down on Liverpool geography, because one multiplier built from the North West pay and Liverpool house prices moves all of them together.
| Trade | Day rate | Modelled range |
|---|---|---|
| Electrician£35 below the £280 benchmark on Liverpool geography. | £245 | |
| Plumber£34 below the £270 benchmark on Liverpool geography. | £236 | |
| Bricklayer£32 below the £260 benchmark on Liverpool geography. | £228 | |
| Gas and Heating Engineer£32 below the £259 benchmark on Liverpool geography. | £227 | |
| General Builder£31 below the £253 benchmark on Liverpool geography. | £222 | |
| Carpenter and joiner£30 below the £240 benchmark on Liverpool geography. | £210 | |
| Roofer£30 below the £239 benchmark on Liverpool geography. | £209 | |
| Plasterer£29 below the £230 benchmark on Liverpool geography. | £201 | |
| Tiler£29 below the £229 benchmark on Liverpool geography. | £200 | |
| Drainage Engineer£28 below the £225 benchmark on Liverpool geography. | £197 | |
| Decorative Plasterer£28 below the £225 benchmark on Liverpool geography. | £197 | |
| GroundworkerModelled only£27 below the £213 benchmark on Liverpool geography. | £186 | |
| Painter and decorator£25 below the £200 benchmark on Liverpool geography. | £175 | |
| Handyman£23 below the £188 benchmark on Liverpool geography. | £165 | |
| Cladding Installer£22 below the £175 benchmark on Liverpool geography. | £153 | |
| Suspended Ceiling Installer£22 below the £175 benchmark on Liverpool geography. | £153 | |
| General Labourer£17 below the £140 benchmark on Liverpool geography. | £123 |
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 Liverpool 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 Liverpool 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 Liverpool, so the next step is pricing one of your own jobs there.
The Rate Sorted calculator opens already set to Liverpool, so your own costs go in and a Liverpool rate you can quote with comes out.
How long the work takes in Liverpool
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 Liverpool rates can be multiplied out.
A decorating job in Liverpool comes to £350 to £700, on the 26th dearest day rate of the 30 towns on this site.
decorating in Liverpool
£350 to £700
A painter and decorator day in Liverpool models at £175, 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 Liverpool
£221 to £342
A plasterer day in Liverpool models at £201, 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 Liverpool
£500 to £640
A tiler day in Liverpool models at £200, 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 Liverpool 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 Liverpool measurement.
Why Liverpool prices as it does
Liverpool prices where its earnings and its housing put it, which is close to the middle.
£184,000
The average house price, against £291,000 across the UK.
£734.20
The North West median weekly pay Liverpool is modelled on, 4.2 percent below the UK median of £766.60.
0.63x
Property against the UK average, 37 percent below 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 Liverpool 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 Liverpool charged for a day of work; what they show is why Liverpool lands where it does.
North West WEEKLY PAY
£734.20
Liverpool is modelled on the North West median for full time work, according to ONS ASHE April 2025.It is 4.2 percent below the UK median of £766.60 a week, and Liverpool models at £175 a decorator day on it.North West ranks 5 of the 11 regions on the register, and Liverpool is 2 of the 2 North West towns we model on it.
Liverpool HOUSE PRICES
£184,000
The Liverpool average, data from the ONS local housing price pages, April 2026 provisional.That is 0.63 times the UK average of £291,000, per the UK House Price Index.27 of the 30 towns we cover have more expensive housing.
Liverpool questions
The same answers the structured data on this page gives a search engine, word for word, and every figure in them is a Liverpool figure printed above.
What is a typical day rate in Liverpool?
A decorator day in Liverpool models at £175.
That is number 26 of the 30 towns on this site.
Across the 17 trades a Liverpool day runs from £123 for general labourer work up to £245 for electrician work, every one of them modelled on North West earnings and Liverpool house prices.
Which trade charges the most per day in Liverpool?
Electrician, at £245 a day.
General Labourer work is the cheapest of the 17, at £123.
That leaves a £122 span for the same working day in the same town, and it happens because every trade carries its own national benchmark before any Liverpool geography is applied to it.
Is Liverpool dearer than Manchester?
Manchester is the dearer of the two: £175 in Liverpool against £188 in Manchester, a £13 gap on a decorator day.
Liverpool and Manchester both sit in the North West.
Liverpool ranks 2 of the 2 towns we model there.
Why are Liverpool rates below the national benchmark?
Two published statistics move the Liverpool figure: North West median weekly pay of £734.20, 5 of the 11 regions on the register, and a local average house price of £184,000, 28 of the 30 towns.
Together they put Liverpool £25 under the £200 national decorator benchmark.
That is 12.5 percent down.
Can I use these Liverpool figures as a quote?
No. £175 is a modelled town figure, and the modelled range beside it, £131 to £228, is arithmetic on that figure rather than a measurement of Liverpool jobs.
16 of the 17 Liverpool 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 Liverpool rows, £123 to £245. Each row carries its own provenance, so a modelled Liverpool figure can never be read as a sourced one.
Download · CSVliverpool.csvOne row per trade, with the rate, the modelled range and the published spread.
Cite this pageThe Day Rate Report, Liverpool day rates, 30 September 2026, https://thedayrate.co.uk/day-rates/liverpool/
Embed this figure
The Liverpool 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/liverpool/"><img src="https://thedayrate.co.uk/og/day-rates-liverpool.png" alt="Day rates for 17 trades in Liverpool, from The Day Rate Report" width="1200" height="630"></a>
The Liverpool figures are free to use in an article, a fact check or a local story, and a credit with a link back is all we ask, under CC BY 4.0.