Clark County, NV
Clark County building permit cost
A Clark County building permit is priced from one table
applied to the valuation of the work. The table runs in six bands from $54.00 for $500 or less of valuation to $537.05 for the first $100,000 plus $2.934 for every additional $1,000. There is no separate rate for a house, a commercial building or a remodel, and no square-footage rate anywhere in the schedule: a $250,000 valuation pays $977.15 whichever of those it is.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Building permit fee, valuation up to $500Permit fee | $54.00 flat fee | schedule item is not provided and Project valuation up to $500 | — |
| Building permit fee, $100,001 of valuation and abovePermit fee | $537.05 + $2.934 per $1,000 of project valuation above $100,000, or fraction thereof | schedule item is not provided and Project valuation over $100,000 | — |
| Building permit fee, $2,001 to $25,000 of valuationPermit fee | $79.29 + $7.371 per $1,000 of project valuation above $2,000, or fraction thereof | schedule item is not provided and Project valuation over $2,000 and Project valuation up to $25,000 | — |
| Building permit fee, $25,001 to $50,000 of valuationPermit fee | $248.82 + $4.725 per $1,000 of project valuation above $25,000, or fraction thereof | schedule item is not provided and Project valuation over $25,000 and Project valuation up to $50,000 | — |
| Building permit fee, $50,001 to $100,000 of valuationPermit fee | $366.95 + $3.402 per $1,000 of project valuation above $50,000, or fraction thereof | schedule item is not provided and Project valuation over $50,000 and Project valuation up to $100,000 | — |
| Building permit fee, $501 to $2,000 of valuationPermit fee | $54.00 + $16.83 per $1,000 of project valuation above $500, or fraction thereof | schedule item is not provided and Project valuation over $500 and Project valuation up to $2,000 | — |
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 tenant improvement with a declared contract valuation of $250,000, which is the applicant's own figure and the one the schedule says the Building Official will use.
| Input | Value |
|---|---|
| Project valuation | $250,000 |
Example total
$977.15
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 6
| Component | How it is calculated | Amount |
|---|---|---|
Building permit fee, $100,001 of valuation and abovePermit feeTable 3-A, final row: "$537.05 for the first $100,000.00 plus $2.934 for each additional $1,000.00 or fraction thereof." Open-ended, and the only band a large project can be in.Show the working
| $537.05 + $2.934 per $1,000 of project valuation above $100,000, or fraction thereof, in $1,000 steps | $977.15 |
| Total | $977.15 |
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.
- Building permit fee, valuation up to $500 — This fee does not apply to the inputs provided.
- Building permit fee, $2,001 to $25,000 of valuation — This fee does not apply to the inputs provided.
- Building permit fee, $25,001 to $50,000 of valuation — This fee does not apply to the inputs provided.
- Building permit fee, $50,001 to $100,000 of valuation — This fee does not apply to the inputs provided.
- Building permit fee, $501 to $2,000 of valuation — 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.
Table 3-A's sixth band: $537.05 for the first $100,000, plus $2.934 for each of the 150 additional thousands. This is arithmetic on the table rather than a figure the County published for a specific job — Clark County publishes no worked example of its own, so there is none to reproduce.
What is different in Clark County
The bands chain, and that is the whole mechanism. Each row of Table 3-A is "an amount for the first part of the valuation, plus a rate for each additional $1,000 or fraction thereof", so a project above $25,000 is charged the third band's figure for its first $25,000 and the fourth band's rate above that.
Four of the five seams between bands close to the cent once their half-cent increments are rounded: $54.00 at $500, $248.82 at $25,000, $366.95 at $50,000 and $537.05 at $100,000 — each one the opening figure of the band above. The fifth does not: the second band's published rate of $1.683 per additional $100 gives $79.245, $79.25 rounded, at $2,000, while the third band opens at $79.29. Four cents, in the County's own document. Both figures are in the model here — the band boundaries decide which row is read, and the rows are reproduced as printed.
"Or fraction thereof" matters and is modelled as written. One cent into a band is a whole additional $1,000, so $25,001 is charged $248.82 plus $4.725, not $248.82 plus a fraction of a cent.
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 — and all four are carried as exact fractions rather than rounded. Rounding them first would have made every Clark County building permit above $25,000 of valuation wrong by cents, which is exactly the kind of error this site is built to avoid.
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 building permit fee from Table 3-A alone. It excludes:
- Plan review, which the chapter prices through the same value table and through hourly rates in Table 3-I, and which the tables read here do not separate from the permit fee. No plan review figure is charged on this page.
- Every development impact fee the Department lists on its own fee page — transportation tax, residential park fee, multi-family park fee, MSHCP mitigation and administrative fees, public facility needs assessment, traffic mitigation and the state water impact fee. The Department publishes no rate for any of them and states that they vary by project.
- Grading permits and grading plan review (Tables 3-E and 3-F), charged per cubic yard of excavation and fill.
- Sign permits (Table 3-J), storm sewer inspection (Table 3-L) and every administrative, investigative, examination and miscellaneous fee in Tables 3-H and 3-I.
- Event fees: re-inspection, revision review, permit extensions, after-hours and overtime inspections.
- Anything for property inside a city. Las Vegas, Henderson, North Las Vegas and Boulder City issue their own permits; a county estimate does not describe them.
What you need before applying
- Contract valuation of the workRequired
The permit fee is a function of valuation, and the schedule says whose number that is: "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 the applicant declares the figure and the department may challenge it.
- Property in Clark County, outside a city's limitsRequired
The county issues construction permits under its own code. Four cities in the same valley — Las Vegas, Henderson, North Las Vegas and Boulder City — issue their own under theirs, and an address inside one of them is not the county's permit to issue. Whether a given parcel is unincorporated is a question for the county's own records, not for this page.
Common questions
Does Clark County charge more for a house than for a commercial building of the same value?
No. Table 3-A is a single valuation table with no occupancy or construction-type column, and no independent table by project category. A $250,000 house and a $250,000 tenant improvement pay $977.15 each. That is the opposite of Dallas, where the same valuation is charged differently depending on what is being built.
How is the valuation arrived at?
You declare it. The table says contract valuations supplied by the applicant shall be used by the Building Official, that the Building Official may request supporting documentation, and that the final valuation is the Building Official's to set. Nothing on this page derives a valuation from square footage, because the schedule publishes no rate that would let it.
What does "or fraction thereof" mean in the table?
That the rate applies to every whole $1,000 the valuation reaches, including a partial one. A valuation of $100,001 is charged for 101 thousands, not 100.001, so the step from $100,000 to $100,001 adds $2.934 rather than a fraction of a cent.
Is the plan review fee included?
No. The chapter prices plan review through the same valuation table and through hourly rates in Table 3-I, and the tables read for this page do not separate it from the permit fee. Adding the table to itself would double it, so no plan review figure is charged and this page says so.
Why is one band boundary four cents off?
Because the schedule says two things that do not quite agree. The band covering $501 to $2,000 charges $54.00 plus $1.683 per additional $100, which is $79.245 at $2,000, while the band above it opens at $79.29. Both are printed. This site reproduces the printed rows, and states the discrepancy rather than choosing one figure and hiding the other.
Is this the same as a Las Vegas permit?
No. The City of Las Vegas, Henderson, North Las Vegas and Boulder City each issue construction permits under their own codes and fee schedules. Clark County's table applies to property it permits. Which authority covers a given address follows from whether the parcel is inside a city's limits, and that is a question for the county's records rather than for this page.
Source and verification
The documents behind every figure on this page, with the dates that make them checkable.
- 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.
Verification
Last verified against the official source in Sep 2026.