Boulder City, NV
Boulder City electrical permit cost
Boulder City prices four electrical jobs and no others:
a service change at $80.00 up to 200 amps, $100.00 from 200 to 1,000 amps and $125.00 above 1,000 amps, and temporary power at $290.00. Each is a flat figure that already includes the $40 issuance fee, because the electrical block on the schedule says so in print. Nothing else electrical is priced by this document — no rate for a remodel's circuits, a new build's wiring or an upgrade to a panel that is not a like-for-like service change.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Service change, 200 to 1,000 APermit fee | $100.00 flat fee | schedule item is service change 1000 | — |
| Service change, over 1,000 APermit fee | $125.00 flat fee | schedule item is service change over 1000 | — |
| Service change, up to 200 APermit fee | $80.00 flat fee | schedule item is service change 200 | — |
| Temporary powerPermit fee | $290.00 flat fee | schedule item is temporary power | — |
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 service change on a residence where the existing 100-amp service is replaced with a 400-amp service. The amperage of the new service is the only thing the schedule asks for, and it falls in the middle band.
| Input | Value |
|---|---|
| Schedule item | service_change_1000 |
Example total
$100.00
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 1Rules considered 4
| Component | How it is calculated | Amount |
|---|---|---|
Service change, 200 to 1,000 APermit feePage 1, ELECTRICAL: "Service Change (200 - 1,000 AMP) — $100.00".Show the working
| $100.00 flat fee | $100.00 |
| Total | $100.00 |
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.
- Service change, over 1,000 A — This fee does not apply to the inputs provided.
- Service change, up to 200 A — This fee does not apply to the inputs provided.
- Temporary power — This fee does not apply to the inputs provided.
Assumptions
- Calculated from 1 fee rule in effect on 2026-09-28.
- Amounts are rounded to the nearest cent, once, at the end of each component.
Page 1, ELECTRICAL: "Service Change (200 - 1,000 AMP) — $100.00", under the block heading "Price Includes Issuance Fee". No valuation is used and none is asked for: this schedule prices the capacity of the service, not the money of the project. A 125-amp change would be $80.00, one over 1,000 amps $125.00, and temporary power — a separate permit — $290.00.
What is different in Boulder City
Two features of this schedule decide every electrical figure, and both are printed rather than inferred.
The first is that the fee steps on amperage, not on money. Service change is the job, and the only thing that changes the price is the capacity of the service being changed: $80.00 for up to 200 amps, $100.00 for 200 to 1,000, $125.00 over 1,000. Those are the three published bands, each open at the bottom and closed at the top, and a service change outside the amperage question — a panel that is being replaced at the same size, a subpanel added — is none of the four rows the schedule publishes.
The second is the issuance fee, and it is the one place Boulder City tells you in writing that the $40 is already inside the number. Each of the three trade blocks carries the line "Price Includes Issuance Fee" under its heading. So an electrical permit is its flat figure, full stop: adding $40 to a service change would charge the fee twice, and the schedule rules that out in its own words. That is the opposite of the reading the building page has to make, where the Valuation Table carries no such indication and the $40 is added.
Temporary power at $290.00 is the outlier — more than three times the largest service change — and it is a permit of its own rather than an addition to another electrical permit. The schedule publishes it as its own row, so the model treats it as its own row: select it and the service change is not charged, because two electrical permits on one project are two permits, not one.
What the schedule does not price is stated plainly on the page: there is no valuation route here. Unlike Clark County, whose electrical table ends by sending unspecified work to its building table, Boulder City's schedule sends nothing anywhere, and a job that is not one of the four has no fee on this document.
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 item fee published on the schedule, with the $40 issuance fee already inside it as the block states. It excludes:
- Electrical work that is not one of the four published items. There is no valuation row for electrical work in this schedule and none is invented here; a job outside the four is priced by the Division, and the Division's number is the one that would govern.
- The building permit fee, if the electrical work belongs to a construction or remodelling project.
- Plan review, published only as a non-refundable deposit equal to the full plan review fees for the project, plus revision reviews at $45.00 per half hour.
- Privilege tax and transportation ($1.00 per square foot commercial, $1,000 per house residential) and the separate $1,000 per house residential tax.
- Meter installation and connection fees under Resolution 6570 — electric service connections run $2,500 up to 200 amps to $7,500 at 801-1,200 amps, then $6.25 per amp. A service change permit and a new service connection are different charges.
- Inspection and event fees: re-inspection $90.00 per hour, same-day and after-hours $90.00 per hour, overtime $180.00 with a two-hour minimum.
- Mechanical (HVAC) permits — $75.00 for a 1-3 ton unit, $100.00 for 3.5-5 ton, plus $35.00 and $60.00 for each additional unit on one permit — together with plumbing and miscellaneous permits, including demolition and moving a structure.
- Anything for property outside the city limits. Clark County issues its own permits.
What you need before applying
- Which of the four published electrical items the work isRequired
The schedule prices exactly four electrical jobs: a service change in three amperage bands and temporary power. It publishes no rate for anything else electrical, so a job that is none of them has no fee on this schedule — the page states that instead of inventing a valuation route the document does not take.
Common questions
How much is an electrical permit in Boulder City?
$80.00 for a service change up to 200 amps, $100.00 for 200 to 1,000 amps, $125.00 above 1,000 amps, and $290.00 for temporary power. Each figure already includes the schedule's $40 issuance fee, which the electrical block states under its heading.
Is the $40 issuance fee added to an electrical permit?
No. The electrical block carries the line "Price Includes Issuance Fee", which is the schedule indicating the fee is inside the figure — exactly the indication the Valuation Table does not carry. Adding $40 to a service change would charge the same fee twice.
Is the fee based on the cost of the work?
No. Boulder City's electrical rows step on amperage only: the same 400-amp service change costs $100.00 whether the house is worth $300,000 or $3,000,000. The schedule publishes no valuation row for electrical work, so there is no money input to give it.
What if my electrical work is not a service change?
Then this schedule does not price it, and no figure is invented here. The four published items are three service-change bands and temporary power; a remodel's circuits, a new build's wiring and a subpanel addition are outside them, and the Division sets the fee for work it does not list.
Does temporary power cost more than a service change?
Yes — $290.00 against $125.00 at the top of the service-change bands, and it is its own permit rather than an addition to one. The schedule publishes it as a separate row, so it is modelled as a separate row: selecting temporary power does not also charge a service change.
Are meter or connection fees included?
No. Electric meter installation is a separate schedule under Resolution 6570 — $2,500 up to 200 amps, $3,500 at 201-400, up to $7,500 at 801-1,200, then $6.25 per amp — and it charges for a new service connection, not for the permit to change one. It is a utility charge and is named on this page rather than folded into the permit figure.
Source and verification
The documents behind every figure on this page, with the dates that make them checkable.
- Fee schedule (PDF)CityPrimary source
Permit Fee Schedule and Valuation Table — Building and Safety Division
Two pages, sha256 e7500fcdecfeff7ee972630c03a6fdd384d42fb6ebd68b431c7732a384c0a748. Page 1 carries the trade and miscellaneous fees, page 2 the Valuation Table and the unit costs. It states its own effective date: "Effective as of August 3, 2020". Both pages were read twice: the Valuation Table was mis-paired by `pdftotext -layout`, which printed the fee column one row out of step with the range column, and the `-table` read caught it — the same class of error the project's two-mode rule exists to catch.
Verification
Last verified against the official source in Sep 2026.