How many quotes should I get for an electrical job in Cape Coral?

At least three. In the permit record the middle half of Cape Coral electrical firms usually file between $1,350 and $2,500 a job, so two ordinary firms can sit 1.9 times apart and both be normal for Cape Coral. A third quote shows which one is the outlier. Filed values are what contractors wrote on permits, not quotes, so use them to judge the spread, not to price your own job.

What range is normal for electrical jobs in Cape Coral?

Half of permits were filed between $1,400 and $3,200; 8 in 10 between $780 and $5,200. These are approximate, pooled from each firm's own spread.

How much do electricians charge in Cape Coral?

The usual electrical job is filed at $2,200; the middle half of firms usually file between $1,350 and $2,500. The 10 firms with the most permits in the last 12 months usually file $2,200, about the same as the usual. See every firm's usual job

Do bigger houses get bigger bills?

Not in the file: firms working on the upper third of homes by value usually file $2,200, the lower third $2,400.

Where does this data come from?

City of Cape Coral building permits (the city's open permit table starts January 2025), read October 2026. How the records work in Cape Coral

Electrical Work Cost in Cape Coral, FL: Usual $2,200 (2026)

How much does electrical work cost in Cape Coral?

The usual electrical job filed with Cape Coral is $2,200, from 2,261 priced permits, January 2025 through September 2026. The middle half of firms usually file between $1,350 and $2,500. Half of jobs were filed for less, half for more. A filed value is what the contractor wrote on the permit, not a quote or the final bill. An electrical permit here usually takes 25 days from issue to final inspection. How long permits take →

What the spread looks like

Approximately, from each firm's own spread: every firm's range of filed values, weighted by its 2,261 priced permits across 310 firms, pooled into one. Half of Cape Coral electrical permits were filed between $1,400 and $3,200.

Percentile	Filed value	Reads as
10th	$780	1 in 10 permits filed below
25th	$1,400	1 in 4 filed below
50th	$2,200	the middle permit
75th	$3,200	1 in 4 filed above
90th	$5,200	1 in 10 filed above

By home value

Firms split into thirds by the usual value of the homes they work on, with each third's usual filed value weighted by permits. Home values: the Florida Department of Revenue tax roll for Lee County (just value).

Firms working on	Usual home value	Usual filed value	Firms	Permits
Lower third	under $302,528	$2,400	103	490
Middle third	$302,528–$438,634	$1,650	103	670
Upper third	$439,792 and up	$2,200	104	1,107

Busiest firms and what they usually charge

Top 10 by permits in the last 12 months. Usual is each firm's middle filed value; middle half is the range its middle half of jobs were filed in. Busy is not the same as careful: pick what you value to build a list.

Firm	Permits	Last 12 mo	Usual	Middle half	Finished
Acra Electric Inc	315	145	$2,000	$2,000–$2,500	99.9%
Florida Sky Electric Inc	122	83	$2,200	$2,200–$2,400	97.4%
Zap Tech Electrical Inc	124	79	$5,885	$3,535–$8,350	99.5%
NCS Electric, Inc	104	59	$3,290	$2,722–$3,720	64.2%
Wired by Wegmann LLC	66	50	$1,000	$350–$2,200	94.0%
Service Minds, LLC. dba:Mister Sparky	74	38	$5,971	$4,253–$7,976	92.7%
Gault Electric South LLC	52	27	$2,850	$1,875–$3,712	99.1%
Pih Electric of Southwest Florida LLC	44	27	$1,200	$612–$1,800	94.9%
Rosario Electric LLC	33	20	$2,400	$1,995–$2,500	93.3%
Always Affordable Electric Inc	30	19	$3,995	$2,495–$4,495	98.4%

Why filed values run low or high

The 10 busiest firms usually file $2,200; the 262 firms with fewer than 10 permits usually file $2,000.
Firms working on the most expensive third of homes (usual home value $439,792 and up) usually file $2,200, against $2,400 for the least expensive third.
One permit type covers small and large jobs: 1 in 10 electrical permits is filed under $780 and 1 in 10 over $5,200, 7 times as much.
99.7% of the 2,268 permits carry a value; the 7 without one are left out of every figure here.

Is your quote normal? Compare it with 2,261 filed values

Line your quote up against the file. In Cape Coral, 1 in 10 electrical filed values sit under $780, the middle half between $1,400 and $3,200, and 1 in 10 over $5,200.

$6,800Above $5,200: higher than 9 in 10 filed values for this work in Cape Coral.
$2,200Right at the usual $2,200: in the middle of the file.
$540Below $780: lower than 9 in 10. Ask what the quote leaves out.

When to schedule electrical work in Cape Coral

Cape Coral files the fewest electrical permits in February (86 against an average month of 100) and the most in April (110). If you can choose, ask for quotes in a quiet month. We have no prices by month, so this is about crews' schedules, not a discount. When each trade is busiest in Cape Coral →

How these numbers are made

Source: City of Cape Coral building permits (the city's open permit table starts January 2025). The window is January 2025 through September 2026; a permit filed after that isn't here yet.

Usual is the middle permit: half were filed for less, half for more. Only permits with a filed value count; a value of $0 or none is left out.

The spread is approximate: we keep seven points of each firm's own range of filed values, not every permit, and pool them.

Nobody paid to be on this page and nobody can. How the records work in Cape Coral →

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Common questions

How many quotes should I get for an electrical job in Cape Coral?At least three. In the permit record the middle half of Cape Coral electrical firms usually file between $1,350 and $2,500 a job, so two ordinary firms can sit 1.9 times apart and both be normal for Cape Coral. A third quote shows which one is the outlier. Filed values are what contractors wrote on permits, not quotes, so use them to judge the spread, not to price your own job.
What range is normal for electrical jobs in Cape Coral?Half of permits were filed between $1,400 and $3,200; 8 in 10 between $780 and $5,200. These are approximate, pooled from each firm's own spread.
How much do electricians charge in Cape Coral?The usual electrical job is filed at $2,200; the middle half of firms usually file between $1,350 and $2,500. The 10 firms with the most permits in the last 12 months usually file $2,200, about the same as the usual. See every firm's usual job →
Do bigger houses get bigger bills?Not in the file: firms working on the upper third of homes by value usually file $2,200, the lower third $2,400.
Where does this data come from?City of Cape Coral building permits (the city's open permit table starts January 2025), read October 2026. How the records work in Cape Coral →

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Electrical Work Cost in Cape Coral, FL: what the permits say