Nevada
Clark County, NV permit fees and requirements
Clark County prices a building permit from one valuation table
in bands that chain: each band is written as an amount for the first part of the valuation plus a rate for every additional $1,000. Its electrical and plumbing permits are priced by the same table, applied to the value of that trade's work, with a short list of flat fees for common jobs on top. No occupancy type, no square footage and no project category changes the arithmetic.
Permit costs we have worked out
Each page shows the fee components, the formula the jurisdiction uses, and a worked example you can follow by hand.
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| Permit | Category | Last reviewed |
|---|---|---|
| Clark County building permit cost | structural | 2026-09-24 |
| Clark County electrical permit cost | electrical | 2026-09-24 |
| Clark County plumbing permit cost | plumbing | 2026-09-24 |
Local context
What is specific to Clark County
Three things about this schedule are worth knowing before you read any figure from it.
The first is that it chains, and Houston's does not. Every band in Table 3-A is written as "an amount for the first N of valuation, plus a rate for each additional $1,000 or fraction thereof", so the bands build on one another — and four of the five seams between them close to the cent: $54.00 at $500, $248.82 at $25,000, $366.95 at $50,000, $537.05 at $100,000. The last three only close once the half-cent increments are rounded, which is why this site checks them by running the arithmetic rather than by multiplying on paper.
One seam does not close, and it belongs to the schedule rather than to this site. The band covering $501 to $2,000 charges $54.00 plus $1.683 per additional $100, which gives $79.245 — $79.25 rounded — at $2,000, and the band above it opens at $79.29. Four cents apart, both figures printed, both in this site's model. Nothing about the discrepancy is large; it is stated on the page instead of smoothed over, because a schedule that disagrees with itself by four cents is a fact about the schedule a reader is entitled to know.
The second is that four of the five rates in the table are finer than a cent per thousand dollars. $7.371, $4.725, $3.402 and $2.934 per $1,000 are 737.1, 472.5, 340.2 and 293.4 cents. None can be stored as whole cents per $1,000 or as basis points without rounding before the multiplication, so all four are carried as exact fractions and reproduced exactly. The one that got away first was $7.371: read as 7,371 cents per $1,000, it charges a $25,000 valuation $1,774.62 where the table says $248.82 — ten times the published fee, invisible in prose and caught only by an arithmetic test. This is the same problem Dallas's plan review rate created, in a different primitive.
The third is that the trades are priced by the building table. Tables 3-B and 3-D each end with the same sentence: fees for projects not specified in the schedule "shall be determined by the Building Official by applying the total value of the scope of work being performed to Table 3-A of this chapter". A general electrical or plumbing permit is therefore a valuation-table permit on the value of that work, and the short list of flat fees above the sentence is the set of exceptions to it. That is why the electrical and plumbing pages here recompute Table 3-A rather than showing only a handful of flat rows.
Valuation
How valuation is determined here
Valuation is the applicant's contract valuation for the work being permitted, not a figure the county derives from square footage.
The department's own words: "Contract valuations supplied by the applicant shall be utilized by the Building Official. The Building Official reserves the option of requesting appropriate additional documentation of contract valuations supplied by the applicant. Final Building permit valuations shall be set by the Building Official."
So there are two steps and they belong to different people. You declare the value of the work; the department may ask for the documents behind it and sets the final figure. Everything on this site takes the declared value as an input and computes from it — no cost per square foot is applied, because Clark County publishes none.
Who to contact
The office that issues the permit, with the details we have verified. Confirm current hours before travelling.
What these fees do not include
The list is not a disclaimer: on a new house the fees left out can outweigh the permit fee several times over. Every entry here is stated on the permit page as well.
Not included in our estimates
These figures are the permit fees published in Tables 3-A, 3-B and 3-D of the Clark County Building Administrative Code, Chapter 22.02, computed by this site's engine. They are not a total project cost. In particular they exclude:
- Every development impact fee, which the Department's own fees page lists separately: transportation tax, residential park fee, residential multi-family park fee, MSHCP mitigation and administrative fees, public facility needs assessment, traffic mitigation and the state water impact fee. The Department states that some or all apply to some projects and may not be charged, and publishes no rate for any of them.
- Grading permits and grading plan review (Tables 3-E and 3-F), which are charged per cubic yard of excavation and fill — a real fee and a different question from a construction permit.
- Amusement and transportation system permits (Table 3-G), administrative and investigative fees (Table 3-H), other plans examination, inspection and miscellaneous fees (Table 3-I), sign permits (Table 3-J) and storm sewer inspection fees (Table 3-L). All are published; none is modelled here.
- Mechanical permits (Table 3-C), which are transcribed but not published as a page in this release.
- Plan review, which the tables price through the same value table and through hourly rates in Table 3-I, and which is not separated from the permit fee in the tables read.
- Every event fee: re-inspection, revision review, extensions, after-hours and overtime inspections, all charged in Table 3-I at hourly rates or flat amounts.
- Anything charged by a city. Las Vegas, Henderson, North Las Vegas and Boulder City each issue their own permits under their own schedules; an address inside one of them is not this authority's permit.
Official sources for this jurisdiction
The documents these figures are transcribed from. Where a source contradicts itself we keep both readings and say so on the permit page.
- Municipal codeCountyPrimary source
2018 Clark County Building Administrative Code (Clark County Code Chapter 22.02)
92 pages, sha256 0df85ac497b9a57703bab62ccbb6bc1e8152b56d8b871a8dae3bfb0bcd244e48. Tables 3-A to 3-D are on pages 67-69 and were read in two pdftotext modes, which agree row for row. The compilation is dated October 2022 and its day is not printed, so the first of the month is recorded. Its own front matter states that only the adopted Code is law, so the effective dates below are taken from its amendment history: section 22.02.390 (Table 3-A) last amended by Ordinance 4663 with effect from 6 February 2019, and sections 22.02.395, 400 and 405 (Tables 3-B, 3-C and 3-D) by Ordinance 4917 with effect from 1 March 2022.
- Official calculatorCounty
Clark County Building & Fire Prevention — Fees Calculator
The Department's own fee page. It names the impact fees charged at permit issuance — transportation tax, residential park fee, residential multi-family park fee, MSHCP mitigation and administrative fees, public facility needs assessment, traffic mitigation, state water impact fee — and states that some or all apply to some projects and may not be charged. It publishes no rate for any of them, and its calculator is client-rendered, so no figure is taken from it. Every one of those fees is named on the pages here and charged by none of them.