National benchmark
£230
A modelled benchmark, published beside the guide spread rather than derived from it.
Our benchmark for a plasterer is £230 a day.
Published UK price guides put plasterers between £110 and £400, checked 30 September 2026.
Sources: Checkatrade, CostEstimator, MyJobQuote, HaMuch and PriceYourJob (2025 guide).
Plasterer rates across 30 towns
Ranked by modelled plasterer day rate, built the way the method band below sets out. The modelled range beside each town is drawn to one shared scale, so two plasterer towns can be read straight off against each other.
Showing all 30 towns.
No town on this page matches that. All 30 are in the table, and the town index explains which towns are not modelled and why.
| # | Town | Rate | vs £230 | Modelled range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GuildfordSouth East£203 to £352 | £271 | £41 above | |
| 2 | OxfordSouth East£197 to £342 | £263 | £33 above | |
| 3 | CambridgeEast of England£195 to £338 | £260 | £30 above | |
| 4 | BrightonSouth East£189 to £328 | £252 | £22 above | |
| 5 | BathSouth West£183 to £317 | £244 | £14 above | |
| 6 | ReadingSouth East£182 to £315 | £242 | £12 above | |
| 7 | BristolSouth West£177 to £307 | £236 | £6 above | |
| 8 | Milton KeynesSouth East£177 to £307 | £236 | £6 above | |
| 9 | CheltenhamSouth West£175 to £303 | £233 | £3 above | |
| 10 | EdinburghScotland£174 to £302 | £232 | £2 above | |
| 11 | YorkYorkshire£168 to £291 | £224 | £6 below | |
| 12 | ExeterSouth West£168 to £291 | £224 | £6 below | |
| 13 | PortsmouthSouth East£167 to £290 | £223 | £7 below | |
| 14 | NorthamptonEast Midlands£166 to £287 | £221 | £9 below | |
| 15 | SouthamptonSouth East£165 to £286 | £220 | £10 below | |
| 16 | CardiffWales£163 to £282 | £217 | £13 below | |
| 17 | NorwichEast of England£163 to £282 | £217 | £13 below | |
| 18 | ManchesterNorth West£162 to £281 | £216 | £14 below | |
| 19 | BirminghamWest Midlands£160 to £277 | £213 | £17 below | |
| 20 | LeedsYorkshire£159 to £276 | £212 | £18 below | |
| 21 | LeicesterEast Midlands£157 to £272 | £209 | £21 below | |
| 22 | CoventryWest Midlands£157 to £272 | £209 | £21 below | |
| 23 | GlasgowScotland£156 to £270 | £208 | £22 below | |
| 24 | SheffieldYorkshire£155 to £269 | £207 | £23 below | |
| 25 | DerbyEast Midlands£152 to £263 | £202 | £28 below | |
| 26 | LiverpoolNorth West£151 to £261 | £201 | £29 below | |
| 27 | NewcastleNorth East£150 to £260 | £200 | £30 below | |
| 28 | NottinghamEast Midlands£150 to £260 | £200 | £30 below | |
| 29 | Stoke-on-TrentWest Midlands£145 to £251 | £193 | £37 below | |
| 30 | SunderlandNorth East£138 to £239 | £184 | £46 below |
Read the rangeEvery range spans the same fraction of its own town rate, 0.75 to 1.30, so a higher priced town shows a wider one.That extra width is arithmetic and not evidence, because the range is a fixed rule rather than a measurement.
- Scale every bar drawn on £130 to £360
- Range the modelled range, the rate x 0.75 and x 1.30
Your next step
You have the £230 plasterer benchmark, so the next step is a plasterer rate that covers your own costs.
Put in the take home you want, your van and your insurance, and the Rate Sorted calculator turns them into your own plasterer day rate, ready to price a job with.
Highest town
£271
Guildford, the biggest premium over the benchmark in the 30.
Cheapest town
£184
Sunderland, £46 under the benchmark and the floor of the table.
Published guide spread
£110 to £400
What 5 named guides publish for plasterers, checked 30 September 2026.
Hiring a plasterer?
A plasterer quote between £110 and £400 a day is inside what the UK guides publish, and £230 is the benchmark this site models from.
Quoting as a plasterer?
£230 puts plasterers 8 of 17 on this site, between £140 for general labourer work and £280 for electrician.
How the 30 towns spread out
Every town on one axis, marked against £230. It shows where the weight of the plasterer table sits, and how far each end has travelled from that benchmark.
£230 benchmark
Guildford £271
Sunderland sits at the other end, on £184.
That is a £87 span across the 30 towns for one day of the same work, and because every trade page on this site draws its rail on the identical £130 to £360 scale, plasterers can be laid over any other trade here and read tick for tick.
Half the table sits here
17 of the 30 towns fall between £208 and £236. Read that middle £28 band first when a plasterer quote needs a quick sanity check against somewhere of a similar size.
Above the benchmark
10 towns clear £230, and 9 of those are in the South East, South West or East of England.
How each town figure is built
Three inputs, in this order, and nothing else goes in.
- 01The trade benchmark, £230Stated and sourced at the top of this page. Nothing on this page works it out again.
- 02A geography multiplier, trade neutralOne multiplier per town, built from earnings data from the ONS and local house prices, applied to every trade the same way.
- 03A modelled range of 0.75 and 1.30Low and high are the town's own modelled rate multiplied by 0.75 and by 1.30, never the benchmark.
Rate estimates blend a national plasterer day rate benchmark, checked against dated UK trade price guides, with official ONS regional earnings and local house price data.
Figures are modelled estimates for guidance, not quotes.
Sources: ONS ASHE 2025, UK House Price Index April 2026.
Nothing on this page is a survey of what plasterers charged.
The full working behind every plasterer figure, with each source dated, is on the methodology page.
Which regions pay the most
The median of the towns we cover in each region, which means a region with one town in it is that one town. London has no modelled town yet, so it does not appear.
South East7 towns covered, £220 to £271£242
East of England2 towns covered, £217 to £260£239
South West4 towns covered, £224 to £244£235
Scotland2 towns covered, £208 to £232£220
Wales1 town covered, £217 to £217£217
Yorkshire3 towns covered, £207 to £224£212
North West2 towns covered, £201 to £216£209
West Midlands3 towns covered, £193 to £213£209
East Midlands4 towns covered, £200 to £221£206
North East2 towns covered, £184 to £200£192
The spread is the story
A Guildford day and a Sunderland day are the same plasterer work at a £87 difference.
How the £230 is set, and what checks it
The first card is the spread published according to the named UK price guides. The rest are independent checks that never fed the £230.
What the guides publish
£110 to £400
5 named UK price guides publish a plasterer day rate.Between them they run from £110 to £400, and the £230 benchmark sits inside that.It is the figure the benchmark is published beside; the cards after it are the tests.
Checkatrade, CostEstimator, MyJobQuote, HaMuch and PriceYourJob (2025 guide), checked 30 September 2026
Office for National Statistics
£34,016
The Office for National Statistics puts full time plasterer pay at £34,016 a year (2025 pay survey).
ONS ASHE 2025 provisional, employee earnings, not a charge out rate · ASHE Table 14
Hudson Contract, what firms pay
£919
Hudson Contract, which tracks what firms pay trades, has plastering at £919 a week, about £184 a day.
Hudson Contract, subcontractor payroll, England and Wales, three year average, July 2023 to June 2026
How long does plastering take?Published production rates at slow, average and fast, and a worked room. Two figures the register does not carry are stated as missing rather than filled in.Plastering times →What does plastering cost?What skimming a room costs in labour. Worked from published production rates by room size and by the square metre, with what five named guides charge for the whole job beside it.Plastering cost →
Plasterer wages and pay rates
What plasterers are paid is a different measurement from the £230 a customer is charged, and both are on this page.
Paid as an employee
£34,016 a year
That is the ONS median for plasterers employed on a payroll, under SOC 5321.It is a wage before tax, not a rate anybody quotes a customer.
Paid as a subcontractor
£184 a day
Hudson Contract paid £919 a week on its plastering series, which is £184 over five days.this trade, published by Hudson under its own name
Employed, starter to experienced
£21,000 to £38,000 a year
The National Careers Service plasterer profile prints both salaries, read 3 October 2026.They are employee salaries before tax, not the £230 a customer pays for a day.
What tradespeople earn sets plasterers beside the other 16 trades, sourced 5 September 2026.
Pricing a short job rather than a full day, the £230 works out at £32.86 an hour on the working day this site assumes, which is ours rather than a published figure.
What the trades charge an hour sets that against the hourly range the price guides publish for plasterers, and names the day it divides by.
Against the decorator benchmark
Decorators benchmark at £200 a day on this site.
Plastering comes in £30 over that figure.
- Plasterer benchmark
- £230
- Painter and decorator benchmark
- £200
- Gap at the benchmark
- £30 over
Venetian and polished ceiling
£400
Specialist Venetian and polished work runs up to £400 a day.It is often priced per square metre, £80 to £250.
Common questions
The same answers the structured data on this page gives a search engine, word for word.
How much does a plasterer charge per day in the UK?
Our benchmark for a plasterer is £230 a day.
Published UK price guides put plasterers between £110 and £400, checked 30 September 2026.
Sources: Checkatrade, CostEstimator, MyJobQuote, HaMuch and PriceYourJob (2025 guide).
Across the 30 modelled towns the figure runs from £184 in Sunderland to £271 in Guildford.
Does the plasterer day rate include materials or VAT?
No.
The £230 is one full working day of plasterer labour, before materials and VAT.
Why do plasterer rates differ between towns?
The £230 benchmark is spread town by town with ONS regional earnings (ASHE 2025) and local house prices (UK House Price Index, April 2026).
That is what puts £271 on Guildford and £184 on Sunderland.
That is a £87 gap across the 30 towns for the same day of plasterer work.
What is the plasterer pay rate in the UK?
The plasterer pay rate depends on who is paying it.
Employed on a payroll, plasterers earn an ONS median of £34,016 a year, under SOC 5321.
For plasterers paid as subcontractors instead, the Hudson Contract figure is its plastering series at £919 a week, which works out at about £184 a day over a five day week.
That is a true plasterer series.
Neither is the £230 a plasterer charges a customer.
Take the data
Every figure on this page is in the file, with the same sources and the same date.
Download · CSVplasterer-day-rates.csv30 rows, one per town, with the rate, the modelled range and the published spread.
Cite this pageThe Day Rate Report, Plasterer day rates, 30 September 2026, https://thedayrate.co.uk/plasterer-day-rates/
Embed this figure
The plasterer card carries the benchmark and the date, and the link goes to this page.
<a href="https://thedayrate.co.uk/plasterer-day-rates/"><img src="https://thedayrate.co.uk/og/plasterer-day-rates.png" alt="Plasterer day rates in 30 UK towns, from The Day Rate Report" width="1200" height="630"></a>
The plasterer figures are free to use in an article, a fact check or a quote, and a credit with a link back is all we ask, under CC BY 4.0.
Quoting plasterer work yourself?The £230 plasterer benchmark beside every other trade on this site, read from the side of the person sending the invoice.What should I chargeHow long does plastering take?Published production rates and worked days, the other half of a plastering job price at £230 a day.How long plastering takes
The full guide index carries all 12, including the ones that turn the plasterer day rate into a job price.
None of the 30 towns modelled above is London, where this site publishes no plasterer rate of its own and prints what the named guides publish instead.