Building pad excavation, common earth — $3.04/CY
$3.04 / CY
Building pad excavation, common earth — $3.04/CY costs about $3.04 per cubic yard installed. This is a published starting point and varies by region and job.
EW-S1-001 · MasterFormat 31 23 16 · CY
What’s in this rate
This unit is bank cubic yards of common earth cut for a commercial building pad to design subgrade, loaded onto trucks. Haul-off, rock, over-excavation, fill, and fine grade are separate units. Production assumes open-site machine work with pad perimeter grade control.
Includes
- cut building pad to design subgrade (bank CY)
- load haul trucks
- pad perimeter grade check / spotter
- operator and laborer time and equipment listed in the build-up
- stated material waste and small tools
Excludes
- haul and disposal (earthwork-haul-* / export)
- rock excavation
- over-excavation and recompaction
- structural fill / aggregate base
- fine grading
- shoring
- dewatering
- tax / freight beyond stated prices
- after-hours, premium access, contaminated soil
- geotechnical testing, surveying / staking, permits
Build-up
- Operator, 0.012 hr × $53.00
- $0.64
- Laborer, 0.006 hr × $41.00
- $0.24
- Material and small tools
- $0.01
- Equipment, hydraulic excavator ~35 t / ~1.5–2 CY bucket class, 0.012 hr per unit
- $1.62
- Direct rate (labor, material, equipment, and tools)
- $2.51 / CY
- Overhead 10% of direct
- $0.25
- Fee 10% of (direct and overhead)
- $0.28
- Loaded rate
- $3.04 / CY
Worked extension: 100 CY of commercial building pad excavation, common earth × $3.04 = $304.00 loaded for 100 CY. Quantity is a worked extension.
Related rates
- Bulk excavation, common earth — $2.54 / CY
- Export clean soil off-site, 10 miles — $16.77 / CY
- Off-site haul, 10 miles — $10.01 / CY
- Structural fill, 8 in lifts — $3.75 / CY
- Fine grading, motor grader (large area) — $0.12 / SF
- Subgrade preparation and proof roll — $0.12 / SF
- Over-excavation and recompaction — $6.09 / CY
- Building pad cut, 2 ft average — $0.23/SF — $0.23 / SF
Use this in a private library
Create a free account to keep your own hours, burden, and supplier quotes behind a login. Published rates stay public. Your own hours and quotes stay private.