Miami-Dade County, FL
Miami-Dade County electrical permit cost
A Miami-Dade County electrical permit is priced from the fee sheet the applicant submits
a row at a time: a permanent service at $7.26 per 100 amperes, an outlet box at $2.59, a fixture at $2.59, a panel board at $32.21, a ton of air conditioning at $9.66, a feeder at $19.33, residential wiring at $0.113 per square foot of the master permit. The permit has a floor of $227.90 — which the sheet states in words and which is the County's $147.00 minimum plus its $65.00 up-front fee plus 7.5% of both — and the state's 1% and 1.5% surcharges are charged on top of that.
How this fee is calculated
These are the components the schedule defines for this permit, as they applied on 2026-09-28. A component only applies to your project if its conditions match — read that column before assuming a figure. Want a figure for your own project? Estimate this fee with the permit fee calculator.
| Component | Formula | Applies when | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air conditioning or refrigeration system, per tonPermit fee | $9.66 per ton of cooling | tons over 0 | — |
| Burglar security systemPermit fee | $40.00 flat fee | electrical item is burglar alarm | — |
| Electrical demolitionPermit fee | $64.61 flat fee | electrical item is demolition | — |
| Electrical feederPermit fee | $19.33 per circuit | amperage over 0 | — |
| Fire alarm system, new or upgrade, per floorPermit fee | $201.26 per story | stories over 0 | — |
| Lighting fixturePermit fee | $2.59 per lighting fixture | lighting fixtures over 0 | — |
| General wiring outlet or boxPermit fee | $2.59 per outlet | electrical item is outlet | — |
| Panel board, switchboard or control panelPermit fee | $32.21 per electrical panel | panels over 0 | — |
| Swimming pool or spa, residential electricalPermit fee | $144.91 flat fee | electrical item is pool | — |
| Residential wiring, per square foot of floor areaPermit fee | $0.113 per sq ft | electrical item is residential wiring | — |
| Permanent service to a building, per 100 amperesPermit fee | $72.60 per 1,000 amperes of service amperage, or fraction thereof | electrical item is one of permanent service, service repair or upgrade, safety check reenergize | — |
| Solar photovoltaic system, ground mountedPermit fee | $325.00 flat fee | electrical item is solar pv and solar mount is ground | — |
| Solar photovoltaic system, roof mountedPermit fee | $365.63 flat fee | electrical item is solar pv and solar mount is not ground | — |
| Special outlet or permanently connected appliancePermit fee | $11.28 per outlet | electrical item is special outlet | — |
| Temporary service for constructionPermit fee | $147.00 flat fee | electrical item is temporary service | — |
| Minimum fee for the trade permitPermit fee | the shortfall up to the $147.00 minimum on calculated permit fee | permit fee under 14700 | — |
| Non-refundable up-front permit support feeOther fee | $65.00 flat fee | Every permit of this type | — |
| Miami-Dade RER building permitting surcharge, 7.5%Surcharge | 7.5% of fees charged | Every permit of this type | — |
| Florida Building Construction Standards surcharge, 1%State surcharge | 1% of calculated permit fee | Every permit of this type | min $2.00 |
| Florida Building Code Administrators and Inspectors surcharge, 1.5%State surcharge | 1.5% of calculated permit fee | Every permit of this type | min $2.00 |
A real permit fee is these components added together. The department’s final calculation is the one that applies — this is the schedule it will be based on.
A worked example
Follow the arithmetic by hand. Every line is produced by the engine from the rules above, so the total cannot drift away from the schedule behind it.
Worked example
A commercial electrical permit in unincorporated Miami-Dade County carrying the rows a tenant fit-out needs: sixty general wiring outlet boxes, one panel board, forty fixtures and five tons of air conditioning tonnage — filed on the electrical fee sheet.
| Input | Value |
|---|---|
| Number of tons of cooling | 5 |
| Number of electrical panels | 1 |
| Number of outlets | 60 |
| Electrical item | outlet |
| Number of lighting fixtures | 40 |
Example total
$443.34
An estimate, not an official fee. It is calculated from the published fee schedule as it applied on 2026-09-28. The permit office’s own calculation is the one that applies, and your project may fall under rules this schedule does not describe.
Fee schedule as of 2026-09-28Rules applied 8Rules considered 20
| Component | How it is calculated | Amount |
|---|---|---|
Air conditioning or refrigeration system, per tonPermit feeFee sheet `G008` "Air-condition units, refrigeration units, or cooler system/structure — $9.66 per Ton" and Section I.D.10(e): "Air conditioning and refrigeration system (new work). Applies to commercial, residential, agricultural, and industrial… Per ton 9.66".Show the working
| $9.66 per ton of cooling | $48.30 |
Lighting fixturePermit feeFee sheet `G009` "Fixture/luminers — $2.59 per Fixture" and Section I.D.11(a): "Floodlights, spotlights, parking lights, tennis court lights, fluorescent and incandescent fixtures, etc. Per fixture 2.59".Show the working
| $2.59 per lighting fixture | $103.60 |
General wiring outlet or boxPermit feeFee sheet `G005` "General wiring outlet box (including outlet boxes in an empty conduit run) — $2.59 per Outlet".Show the working
| $2.59 per outlet | $155.40 |
Panel board, switchboard or control panelPermit feeFee sheet `G045` "Electrical: panel board, switchboard, control panel (fire alarm panel, access control panel), motor board controller, scada system — $32.21 per Board".Show the working
| $32.21 per electrical panel | $32.21 |
Non-refundable up-front permit support feeOther fee"A.8 UP-FRONT FEE FOR PERMIT SUPPORT FUNCTIONS PERFORMED BY CONSTRUCTION, PERMITTING, AND BUILDING CODE (CPBC) — A non-refundable up-front fee will be assessed for permit support functions, including acceptance of applications, distribution of plans, document storage, and technology support for applications accepted through CPBC for Unincorporated Municipal Service Area jurisdiction applications. 65.00" — with a second row at $70.00 for municipal applications, which is not this jurisdiction's. The schedule places it in Section I, so the County's 7.5% surcharge reaches it; the fee sheet's $227.90 minimum is the proof.Show the working
| $65.00 flat fee | $65.00 |
Miami-Dade RER building permitting surcharge, 7.5%Surcharge"A.15 RER SURCHARGE — A Building Permitting surcharge of seven and one half (7.5%) percent on all Building Permitting fees listed in Section I except for Enforcement fees listed in Sub-section K. This surcharge is to be used to fund incremental direct costs and reasonable indirect costs associated with the Building Permitting activity that are directly related to enforcing the Florida Building Code." It is the County's own charge, on top of the two the state imposes.Show the working
| 7.5% of fees charged | $30.34 |
Florida Building Construction Standards surcharge, 1%State surcharge"A.20 STATE MANDATED SURCHARGE — Building Construction Standards: \"…there is created a surcharge assessed at the rate of 1 percent of the permit fees associated with enforcement of the Florida Building Code … The minimum amount collected on any permit issued shall be $2…\" (§ 553.72, Florida Statutes.) Surcharge rates may be subject to change as set by State Statute."Show the working
| 1% of calculated permit fee | $3.40 |
Florida Building Code Administrators and Inspectors surcharge, 1.5%State surcharge"A.21 STATE MANDATED SURCHARGE — Building Code Administrators and Inspectors: \"(1) This part shall be funded through a surcharge … at the rate of 1.5 percent of all permit fees associated with enforcement of the Florida Building Code … The minimum amount collected on any permit issued shall be $2…\" (§ 468.631, Florida Statutes.)" Both state surcharges are collected by the County and remitted to the state quarterly, with 10% retained for building department training.Show the working
| 1.5% of calculated permit fee | $5.09 |
| Total | $443.34 |
Fees that do not apply here
Listed so you can see what was considered and left out, rather than wondering whether something is missing. A rule can also be left out because it is not published for this permit at all, and that is stated where it matters.
- Burglar security system — This fee does not apply to the inputs provided.
- Electrical demolition — This fee does not apply to the inputs provided.
- Electrical feeder — This fee does not apply to the inputs provided.
- Fire alarm system, new or upgrade, per floor — This fee does not apply to the inputs provided.
- Swimming pool or spa, residential electrical — This fee does not apply to the inputs provided.
- Residential wiring, per square foot of floor area — This fee does not apply to the inputs provided.
- Permanent service to a building, per 100 amperes — This fee does not apply to the inputs provided.
- Solar photovoltaic system, ground mounted — This fee does not apply to the inputs provided.
- Solar photovoltaic system, roof mounted — This fee does not apply to the inputs provided.
- Special outlet or permanently connected appliance — This fee does not apply to the inputs provided.
- Temporary service for construction — This fee does not apply to the inputs provided.
- Minimum fee for the trade permit — This fee does not apply to the inputs provided.
Assumptions
- Calculated from 8 fee rules in effect on 2026-09-28.
- Amounts are rounded to the nearest cent, once, at the end of each component.
Each row is charged on its own code and its own count: `G005` sixty outlet boxes at $2.59 is $155.40, `G045` one panel board at $32.21, `G009` forty fixtures at $2.59 is $103.60, and `G008` five tons at $9.66 is $48.30. The rows total $339.51, which is above the $147.00 floor, so no minimum adjustment applies. The $65.00 up-front fee is added, the County's 7.5% surcharge on the $404.51 charged so far is $30.34, and the state's 1% and 1.5% on the $339.51 permit fee are $3.40 and $5.09. Total: $443.34.
The floor is the reading worth checking against the sheet, and a permit consisting of nothing but a service demonstrates it. A permanent service of 400 amperes is `G034` at $7.26 per 100 amperes, $29.04. The floor raises the fee rows to $147.00 — a $117.96 shortfall, charged once — the $65.00 up-front fee brings it to $212.00, and 7.5% of that is $15.90. Those three are exactly the sheet's $227.90 minimum, and the state's two surcharges add $2.00 and $2.21 above it for a total of $232.11.
Two rows in the same shape are worth knowing before filing. Residential wiring is priced on the master permit's square footage rather than on the installation — $0.113 per square foot — and it is a single row: a 2,500 square foot residence is $282.50, and it replaces the outlet and fixture counts rather than joining them. And a solar photovoltaic system is a flat amount that differs by mounting, $365.63 roof-mounted against $325.00 ground-mounted, so the mounting has to be named for either row to apply.
What is different in Miami-Dade County
The important thing about this schedule is that a permit is a sum of lines, not a choice between them. The County requires the electrical fee sheet to be submitted with the application, and the sheet is a table of codes with a units column; a real permit lists a service, its outlets, its fixtures, a panel board and the air conditioning. So the pages of this site price the rows it is given: sixty outlets, one panel board, forty fixtures and five tons of cooling on one permit is $443.34 including the up-front fee and the three surcharges, while a permit that is only a 400-ampere service stops at the floor, $232.11.
That floor is worth dwelling on, because it is the one place in this dataset where a schedule's own arithmetic can be checked against a figure it prints. The sheet says "Minimum fee for electrical permits is $227.90". The County's building minimum is $147.00. The A.8 up-front fee is $65.00. And the RER surcharge is 7.5%. $147.00 plus $65.00 is $212.00, and $212.00 plus 7.5% is $227.90 exactly — which tells a reader two things the schedule never spells out: that the floor is measured on the fee rows and not on the total, and that the County's own 7.5% is charged on the up-front fee as well. This site's rules are arranged so that the sequence reproduces $227.90, and the test suite asserts it.
The per-row structure also decides which rows are alternatives. A permanent service, a temporary construction service, pool wiring, a solar photovoltaic system, a burglar alarm and an electrical demolition are one each — the sheet's categories make them mutually exclusive — while feeders, outlet boxes, special outlets, fixtures, panel boards, tonnage and stories of fire alarm are counts and add up. Two rows are shared with other sheets deliberately: the air conditioning tonnage is on the electrical sheet as `G008` at $9.66 per ton and on the mechanical sheet as well, and the meter reset and re-inspection rows are the division's own, priced at $38.00 and printed on the plumbing sheet too.
One row is a rate on papers rather than on hardware: residential wiring for new construction, additions, alterations and repairs is `G080` at $0.113 per square foot, and the fee sheet's own note says "the fee will be calculated based on the square footage on the master permit" — so a 2,500 square foot residence is $282.50 before anything is installed in it.
What this figure does not include
Impact fees, utility connections and other departments’ permits are the usual omissions, and in some jurisdictions they are larger than the permit fee itself.
Not included in these figures
This estimate is the electrical fee sheet rows given to it, the $227.90 permit floor when it applies, the $65.00 up-front fee and the three surcharges. It excludes:
- The mechanical permit on the same job — the County's Mechanical Fee Sheet prices air conditioning, refrigeration and ductwork per ton and per unit — and the plumbing and gas permit, which is a separate form.
- The rows priced by length or by state grant: plugmold track lighting at $5.01 per five feet, empty conduit ductbank at $2.91 per lineal foot, the per-10-KW transformer and heating rows, the smoke and carbon monoxide detector row at $1.92 per device, the 10-KW commercial equipment row, the time clock, the manhole and the motor replacement.
- The service conversion and re-energizing checks where a repair to a commercial service requires a scope of work document or the upgrade requires commercial plans.
- The expedited and programme routes — Concierge, master, Cookie Cutter, green building — and the optional after-hours plan review.
- The plan conversion fee for paper submittals, the rework and re-submittal charges, and additional or overtime inspections.
- Other agencies' charges collected with the permit: Fire Rescue's review and inspection fees, DERM's, Water and Sewer's, and the impact fees.
- The double fee both trade sheets impose for work done without a permit.
What you need before applying
- A trade permit has a $147 floor on its rows, charged once for the permitRequired
Both trade fee sheets state the floor in the same words at the top of the form — "Minimum fee for electrical permits is $227.90" and "Minimum fee for plumbing permits is $227.90" — and that figure is the County's own arithmetic: $147.00 of fee rows, the $65.00 up-front fee, and 7.5% of both, because the RER surcharge is charged on the fee *and* the up-front fee. So the floor is $147.00, it is measured on the fee rows rather than the total, and it is charged once per permit rather than once per row. This site applies it as a `permit_minimum` rule that adds the shortfall, which is why an electrical permit consisting of one 400-ampere service ends at $232.11 — the sheet's $227.90 plus the two state surcharges on top of it.
- The applicant files a fee sheet, so a trade permit is a sum over rowsRequired
The County's fee page is explicit: "Permit Fee Sheets must be submitted as part of a permit application when applying for electrical, mechanical or plumbing permits. Fee sheets break down the cost of permit by category." The electrical sheet gives every row a code — `G034` for a permanent service, `G005` for an outlet box, `G009` for a fixture, `G045` for a board, `G008` for a ton of cooling — and a real permit lists several of them at once. This site therefore prices a trade permit as the sum of the rows it is given: sixty outlets, one panel board, forty fixtures and five tons of air conditioning on one permit is $443.34 with the up-front fee and three surcharges, and the rows that are alternatives to one another — a permanent service, a temporary service, pool wiring, solar, a burglar alarm — are the only ones it treats as a choice.
Common questions
Why does an electrical permit here look like a list rather than a rate?
Because the County requires the applicant to file the electrical fee sheet with the application, and the sheet is a table: a fee code, a description, a calculation, a unit and a number of units for every row. "Permit Fee Sheets must be submitted as part of a permit application when applying for electrical, mechanical or plumbing permits. Fee sheets break down the cost of permit by category." A permit is the sum of the lines on that form.
Miami-Dade County, Building Fee Schedules
What is the minimum an electrical permit can cost?
The sheet states it in words rather than as a formula: "Minimum fee for electrical permits is $227.90." That figure is the County's $147.00 minimum on the fee rows, plus the $65.00 A.8 up-front fee, plus 7.5% of both. With the state's 1% and 1.5% surcharges charged over it, the least a permit ends up costing is $232.11. The floor is charged once per permit rather than once per row, so a permit whose lines already exceed $147.00 pays nothing extra for it.
Electrical Fee Sheet, form 123_01-57/26
How much is a 200-ampere service, or a 400-ampere one?
`G034` prices a permanent service at $7.26 per 100 amperes, and `G067` prices the repair or upgrade of an existing service at the same rate, with `G079` pricing a safety check for re-energizing one. So 200 amperes is $14.52 and 400 amperes is $29.04 — and on its own either lands on the permit's $227.90 floor rather than being charged as it stands. A 450-ampere service is charged as five hundreds, $36.30, because the schedule charges "each 100 amp. or fractional part".
Electrical Fee Sheet, Category 01
Is the air conditioning charged on the electrical permit as well as the mechanical one?
The electrical sheet prices it: `G008` "Air-condition units, refrigeration units, or cooler system/structure — $9.66 per Ton". The mechanical sheet and the implementing order price the same equipment on their own terms, so the tonnage appears twice in the County's paperwork — once as an electrical row and once as mechanical work. This site charges the electrical row on this page and does not price the mechanical permit at all.
Electrical Fee Sheet, Category 01
How is the wiring for a new house charged?
By the square footage of the master permit: `G080` "Residential wiring-new construction, additions, alterations & repairs — 0.113 per Sq ft", and the sheet's Category 01 note adds "please note the fee will be calculated based on the square footage on the master permit". It is a row in place of the outlet and fixture counts for a residence, and the order prints the same figure to three decimals, so a 2,500 square foot house is $282.50.
Electrical Fee Sheet, Category 01
What does the 7.5% cover, and is it charged on the state's surcharges too?
It is the County's own surcharge, and its scope is stated: "A Building Permitting surcharge of seven and one half (7.5%) percent on all Building Permitting fees listed in Section I except for Enforcement fees listed in Sub-section K. This surcharge is to be used to fund incremental direct costs and reasonable indirect costs associated with the Building Permitting activity." It is charged on everything charged before it, including the $65.00 up-front fee — $212.00 becomes $227.90, which is the sheet's own minimum — while the state's 1% and 1.5% are charged on the permit fee alone.
Implementing Order No. 4-63, Section I.A.15
Are solar and pool permits priced the same way?
They are flat rows rather than counts: `G059` and the implementing order price a residential pool or spa electrical permit at $144.91, a roof-mounted solar photovoltaic system at $365.63 and a ground-mounted one at $325.00, a burglar alarm at $40.00 and an electrical demolition at $64.61. Each is one charge per permit, and each is below the $147.00 floor unless it is combined with other rows — which is why a pool wiring permit on its own comes to $232.11.
Electrical Fee Sheet, Categories 07 to 12
Source and verification
The documents behind every figure on this page, with the dates that make them checkable.
- County websiteCounty
Building Fee Schedules, Refunds & Cancelations
Read 2026-09-24. It is the page that links the implementing order and all three fee sheets, and it states the two facts that organise these pages: that "Permit Fee Sheets must be submitted as part of a permit application when applying for electrical, mechanical or plumbing permits", so a trade permit is a sum over the rows an applicant claims, and that "Permit fees include other fees assessed by other service areas, agencies and/or departments involved in the permitting process" — naming the Department of Transportation and Public Works, Development Services, DERM, Fire Rescue, Water and Sewer, and the state for septic tanks. Neither of the county's two published increases is invisible on it: the October 1, 2025 notice is still at the top of the page, above the schedules the June 2026 order superseded.
- Fee schedule (PDF)CountyPrimary source
Electrical Fee Sheet (form 123_01-57/26)
Sha256 beginning c52d753a6c00f281, re-fetched on 2026-09-24. It prints the same rates as the implementing order with a fee code on every row — `G034` for a permanent service, `G005` for an outlet box, `G045` for a panel board — and every electrical rule on this site quotes its code, which is how a reader can find the row on the form they submit. Its first line is the floor the order never states: "Minimum fee for electrical permits is $227.90."
- OrdinanceCountyPrimary source
Thirty pages, sha256 beginning 7f23cd971ade46be, re-fetched on 2026-09-24 to confirm the URL still serves the file this site was built from, and read in three pdftotext modes. It is an implementing order rather than an ordinance — "Ordered June 16, 2026, Effective June 26, 2026", superseding the order of June 26, 2025 — which is why a fee schedule in this county can be re-ordered inside a year, and why the County's own fee page still carries the notice for the preceding change: "Effective Oct. 1, 2025 the Building Division will be implementing a revised fee schedule adopted by the Board of County Commissioners on June 30, 2025. This is the first increase in more than 17 years." The URL is the one the County's fee page links.
Verification
Last verified against the official source in Sep 2026.