New York City, NY
New York City plumbing permit cost
A New York City plumbing permit has no fee schedule of its own:
§28-112.2 charges it per Table 28-112.2, exactly as a building alteration, so the fee comes from the cost of the work — $130.00 for the first $5,000 in a one-, two- or three-family dwelling with $2.60 per $1,000 above, $195.00 for the first $3,000 in other buildings with $10.30 above. Minor work filed by a Licensed Master Plumber without plans is a Limited Alteration Application, and DOB's fee chart for it is this same arithmetic printed as a price list.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plumbing permit — alteration, one two three family, at the $130.00 base plus $2.60 per $1,000 above $5,000Permit fee | $130.00 + $2.60 per $1,000 of project valuation above $5,000, or fraction thereof | alteration is true and building category is one two three family and alteration type is none of ALT1 | — |
| Plumbing permit — alteration, one two three family, at the $170.00 base plus $2.60 per $1,000 above $5,000Permit fee | $170.00 + $2.60 per $1,000 of project valuation above $5,000, or fraction thereof | alteration is true and building category is one two three family and alteration type is ALT1 | — |
| Plumbing permit — alteration, large, at the $195.00 base plus $10.30 per $1,000 above $3,000Permit fee | $195.00 + $10.30 per $1,000 of project valuation above $3,000, or fraction thereof | alteration is true and building category is large and alteration type is none of ALT1, ALT2 and not (affordable r2 is true) | — |
| Plumbing permit — alteration, large, at the $195.00 base plus $10.30 per $1,000 above $3,000Permit fee | $195.00 + $10.30 per $1,000 of project valuation above $3,000, or fraction thereof | alteration is true and building category is large and alteration type is none of ALT1, ALT2 and affordable r2 is true | — |
| Plumbing permit — alteration, large, at the $280.00 base plus $10.30 per $1,000 above $3,000Permit fee | $280.00 + $10.30 per $1,000 of project valuation above $3,000, or fraction thereof | alteration is true and building category is large and alteration type is one of ALT1, ALT2 and affordable r2 is true | — |
| Plumbing permit — alteration, large, at the $290.00 base plus $17.75 per $1,000 above $3,000Permit fee | $290.00 + $17.75 per $1,000 of project valuation above $3,000, or fraction thereof | alteration is true and building category is large and alteration type is ALT1 and not (affordable r2 is true) | — |
| Plumbing permit — alteration, large, at the $225.00 base plus $10.30 per $1,000 above $3,000Permit fee | $225.00 + $10.30 per $1,000 of project valuation above $3,000, or fraction thereof | alteration is true and building category is large and alteration type is ALT2 and not (affordable r2 is true) | — |
| Plumbing permit — alteration, other, at the $195.00 base plus $10.30 per $1,000 above $3,000Permit fee | $195.00 + $10.30 per $1,000 of project valuation above $3,000, or fraction thereof | alteration is true and building category is other and alteration type is none of ALT1, ALT2 | — |
| Plumbing permit — alteration, other, at the $280.00 base plus $10.30 per $1,000 above $3,000Permit fee | $280.00 + $10.30 per $1,000 of project valuation above $3,000, or fraction thereof | alteration is true and building category is other and alteration type is ALT1 | — |
| Plumbing permit — alteration, other, at the $225.00 base plus $10.30 per $1,000 above $3,000Permit fee | $225.00 + $10.30 per $1,000 of project valuation above $3,000, or fraction thereof | alteration is true and building category is other and alteration type is ALT2 | — |
| Plumbing permit — records management fee, one-, two- or three-family dwelling, $45.00Other fee | $45.00 flat fee | building category is one two three family and alteration is provided | — |
| Plumbing permit — records management fee, all other buildings, $165.00Other fee | $165.00 flat fee | building category is provided and building category is none of one two three family and alteration is provided | — |
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 Limited Alteration Application for $7,500 of plumbing work in a one-, two- or three-family dwelling, filed by a Licensed Master Plumber.
| Input | Value |
|---|---|
| Project valuation | $7,500 |
| Alteration | Yes |
| Alteration type | LAA |
| Building category | one_two_three_family |
Example total
$182.80
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 2Rules considered 12
| Component | How it is calculated | Amount |
|---|---|---|
Plumbing permit — alteration, one two three family, at the $130.00 base plus $2.60 per $1,000 above $5,000Permit feeTable 28-112.2, row 11: "Minimum filing fee for the first $5,000, or fraction thereof, of the cost of alteration; plus $2.60 for each $1,000, or fraction thereof, of cost of alterations in excess of $5,000". Charged with the $130.00 minimum filing fee of this row's ALT2 / ALT3 / LAA as the base for the first $5,000 of cost, so an application costs $130.00 on its own and rises in whole $1,000 steps after that threshold.Show the working
| $130.00 + $2.60 per $1,000 of project valuation above $5,000, or fraction thereof, in $1,000 steps | $137.80 |
Plumbing permit — records management fee, one-, two- or three-family dwelling, $45.00Other fee1 RCNY §101-03: "Records management fee for applications for new buildings and alterations and associated documentation — $45 for one-, two- or three-family dwellings". Charged once for the application rather than per trade or per row, and applied here to every alteration and new-building application, including a Limited Alteration Application, which is an application for alterations. The rule states that the Department is authorized to charge it; no DOB chart read for this pass prints it as a line. The exemptions in §28-112.1 — religious, charitable and educational owners, and emergency work for a City agency — are not modelled as a fact.Show the working
| $45.00 flat fee | $45.00 |
| Total | $182.80 |
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.
- Plumbing permit — alteration, one two three family, at the $170.00 base plus $2.60 per $1,000 above $5,000 — This fee does not apply to the inputs provided.
- Plumbing permit — alteration, large, at the $195.00 base plus $10.30 per $1,000 above $3,000 — This fee does not apply to the inputs provided. (2 rules with the same outcome)
- Plumbing permit — alteration, large, at the $280.00 base plus $10.30 per $1,000 above $3,000 — This fee does not apply to the inputs provided.
- Plumbing permit — alteration, large, at the $290.00 base plus $17.75 per $1,000 above $3,000 — This fee does not apply to the inputs provided.
- Plumbing permit — alteration, large, at the $225.00 base plus $10.30 per $1,000 above $3,000 — This fee does not apply to the inputs provided.
- Plumbing permit — alteration, other, at the $195.00 base plus $10.30 per $1,000 above $3,000 — This fee does not apply to the inputs provided.
- Plumbing permit — alteration, other, at the $280.00 base plus $10.30 per $1,000 above $3,000 — This fee does not apply to the inputs provided.
- Plumbing permit — alteration, other, at the $225.00 base plus $10.30 per $1,000 above $3,000 — This fee does not apply to the inputs provided.
- Plumbing permit — records management fee, all other buildings, $165.00 — This fee does not apply to the inputs provided.
Assumptions
- Calculated from 2 fee rules in effect on 2026-09-28.
- Amounts are rounded to the nearest cent, once, at the end of each component.
The LAA sits on row 11 of Table 28-112.2: $130.00 for the first $5,000 of cost, and the $2,500 above it rounds up to three whole $1,000 steps at $2.60 — $7.80. The alteration fee is $137.80.
The records management fee follows at $45.00 for a one-, two- or three-family dwelling, charged once for the application rather than per work type, and the total is $182.80.
In any other building the same job sits on row 12 — $195.00 for the first $3,000, then four and a half thousand rounds up to five steps of $10.30, or $51.50 — for a $246.50 fee and a $165.00 records fee. DOB's own LAA chart prints this row's arithmetic as a price list, which is how the reading was checked against the Department rather than against the code alone.
What is different in New York City
The Limited Alteration Application is the common case, and its limits are DOB's own: Category 1 work is capped at $35,000 per building including appliance and labour in any 12-month period and at five or fewer new fixtures or connections, while Category 2 has no cost limit but a closed list of work — and one category and one work type may be filed per application. A $7,500 LAA in a house is $130.00 plus three whole steps of $2.60 — $137.80 — and the $45.00 records fee, for $182.80.
DOB's published charts are the check on this reading: they reprint rows 11 and 12 as $130.00 to $5,000 then steps of exactly $2.60 for a one-, two- or three-family dwelling, and $195.00 to $3,000 then steps of exactly $10.30 for every other building — line for line the arithmetic this calculator computes. A plumbing job past the LAA's limits is filed as a full alteration on the same rows, with the Alteration Type's own base.
One application carries every work type, and the filing fee belongs to the application: the table's renewal column reads $130 per work type, so a reader adding this page's plumbing total to its building total is pricing two applications rather than one.
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 is DOB's plumbing permit fee under Table 28-112.2, plus the records management fee. It excludes:
- A plumbing-only schedule, because there is none. §28-112.2 charges plumbing permits per the table, so this page names the row rather than inventing a per-fixture price — New York City's text publishes no fixture rate at all.
- The other rows of the table: renewal at $130 per work type, amendments at the greater of $130 or the added scope, reinstatement, and the demolition, earthwork, curb cut, sign, sidewalk shed, scaffold, fence and temporary structure rows.
- Fire suppression and alarm work, which FDNY permits under its own schedule. §28-112.5 says paying DOB's fee "shall not relieve the applicant or holder of the permit from the payment of other fees that are prescribed by law".
- The LAA's work-type limits, not its fees. The $35,000 Category 1 cap and the five-fixture limit decide which application fits, not what it costs; a job past them is a full alteration and is priced on the same rows here.
- Water and sewer charges from DEP, which are utility charges rather than permit fees, and the exemptions in §28-112.1, which are not modelled as an input.
- The chart's penalty column. DOB's chart prints a second figure beside every fee — $780.00 at the foot of the 1, 2, 3 Family sheet and $6,000.00 at the foot of the others — labelled as penalties for Category 1 & 2 filing. What makes a filing a penalty rather than a fee is not stated on the chart, and no penalty is modelled here.
What you need before applying
- Minor plumbing work is a Limited Alteration Application filed by a Licensed Master PlumberRequired
DOB: the LAA "is used for plumbing work, fire suppression piping replacement and repairs, and oil burner installations that do not include construction work", and is filed in DOB NOW: Build by Licensed Master Plumbers, Licensed Master Fire Suppression Piping Contractors and Licensed Oil Burner Installers. Category 1 work is limited to $35,000 per building including appliance and labour in any 12-month period and to five or fewer new fixtures or connections; Category 2 has no cost limit but a closed list of work. One category and one work type may be filed per application.
- A plumbing permit has no schedule of its own — it is charged as an alterationRequired
§28-112.2 charges permits for "new buildings, structures, mechanical, and plumbing, and electrical systems or alterations requiring a permit" per Table 28-112.2, and the table's alteration rows are where a plumbing job's fee comes from. An older edition of the same table named plumbing inside those rows explicitly; the current text routes it through the Limited Alteration Application bullet. DOB's published LAA charts reprint rows 11 and 12 as a price list, which is how the reading is checked rather than assumed.
- One application carries every work type, and the filing fee is charged onceRequired
The table's renewal column reads "$130 per work type" — the filing fee belongs to the application and the renewal to each trade on it. A job that files building and plumbing together pays one filing fee, not two, so a reader who adds this site's building total to its plumbing total is pricing two separate applications. §28-112.5 adds that paying DOB's fee "shall not relieve the applicant or holder of the permit from the payment of other fees that are prescribed by law" — FDNY's permits among them.
Common questions
How much is a plumbing permit in New York City?
There is no plumbing rate of its own: §28-112.2 charges a plumbing permit per Table 28-112.2, so an alteration pays its minimum filing fee — $130.00 in a one-, two- or three-family dwelling, $195.00 in most other buildings — plus $2.60 or $10.30 for each $1,000 of cost above the first $5,000 or $3,000, counting any part of a thousand as a whole step.
What is a Limited Alteration Application?
DOB's own definition: the LAA "is used for plumbing work, fire suppression piping replacement and repairs, and oil burner installations that do not include construction work", filed in DOB NOW: Build by Licensed Master Plumbers, Licensed Master Fire Suppression Piping Contractors and Licensed Oil Burner Installers. One category and one work type may be filed per application.
What are the LAA's cost limits?
Category 1 work is limited to $35,000 per building including appliance and labour in any 12-month period and to five or fewer new fixtures or connections. Category 2 has no cost limit but a closed list of work. A job that fits neither is filed as a full alteration instead — on the same rows of the table, with the Alteration Type's own base.
Does the Department publish the LAA's fees?
Yes — as rows 11 and 12 of the fee table, printed as a price list: $130.00 to $5,000 then steps of exactly $2.60 in a one-, two- or three-family dwelling, and $195.00 to $3,000 then steps of exactly $10.30 in any other building. The charts DOB links are stamped June 2018 and their arithmetic still matches the table in force.
Does filing building and plumbing together double the filing fee?
No. The table charges the filing fee for the application and $130 per work type for renewals, so one application carrying two work types pays one filing fee — a reader adding this page's total to the building page's total is pricing two separate applications. When the work changes the certificate of occupancy, §28-112.2.1's 50-percent payment schedule applies to the combined fee.
Are there fees outside DOB's?
Yes. §28-112.5 says paying DOB's fee "shall not relieve the applicant or holder of the permit from the payment of other fees that are prescribed by law" — FDNY permits sprinklers, standpipes and alarm systems, and DEP charges its own water and sewer items. None of those are in the total this page computes.
Source and verification
The documents behind every figure on this page, with the dates that make them checkable.
- Municipal codeCityPrimary source
Read 2026-09-25 from the codifier's consolidated rule text. §28-112.2.2 of the Administrative Code sends electrical permit fees here, and this section prints them: $40 for the initial application, $0 for the first ten units and $.25 over, service switches at $8 to $375 by ampere band, service entrance cables at $15 to $75, panels at $15 to $75, signs at $40 to $115, elevators at $125 and $83, boiler controls at $12, minor work at $15 — and the records management fee of $45 or $165 for applications for new buildings and alterations. The section's promulgation details, downloaded from nyc.gov, show the electrical and records figures only in the original rule effective 1 July 2008; the section was last amended effective 13 August 2026 for sidewalk-shed provisions, and a pending DOB-219 rulemaking would amend the electrical rows.
- Fee schedule (PDF)CityPrimary source
Read 2026-09-25: the page, and the two PDFs it links — /assets/buildings/pdf/laa_fee_chart_1-2-3_family.pdf and /assets/buildings/pdf/laa_fee_chart_other.pdf, both stamped JUNE 2018. The charts are a price list for rows 11 and 12 of Table 28-112.2 and they reproduce the table's own arithmetic line by line: $130.00 for a 1-2-3 family job to $5,000, then steps of exactly $2.60; $195.00 for any other building to $3,000, then steps of exactly $10.30. Four lines of each chart are asserted against the model's own output in the tests, which is the strongest check this jurisdiction has — the Department printing the table's formula as a list. The June 2018 stamp is when Local Law 56 of 2016's rates were programmed, not when the formula changed.
- City websiteCityPrimary source
Read 2026-09-25 with its sibling page on limited plumbing alterations. The Department states that the LAA "is used for plumbing work, fire suppression piping replacement and repairs, and oil burner installations that do not include construction work", that Licensed Master Plumbers, Licensed Master Fire Suppression Piping Contractors and Licensed Oil Burner Installers file it in DOB NOW: Build, and that one category and one work type may be filed per application. The plumbing page carries the Category 1 limits — $35,000 per building including appliance and labour in any 12-month period, five or fewer new fixtures or connections — and Category 2's work list, which has no cost limit. This is what makes the plumbing page's claim checkable: DOB's own price list and the City's fee table are the same arithmetic.
- Municipal codeCityPrimary source
Read 2026-09-25 as the codifier's consolidated text of the section and its 39-row table, with the amendment history it prints at the foot: "Am. L.L. 2016/056, 5/10/2016, eff. 6/9/2016; Am. L.L. 2021/126, 11/7/2021, eff. 11/7/2022; Am. L.L. 2023/077, 6/11/2023, eff. 6/11/2023; Am. L.L. 2024/128, 12/21/2024, eff. 12/21/2025". §28-112.2 sends permits for "new buildings, structures, mechanical, and plumbing, and electrical systems or alterations" to this table and to §§28-112.2.1 and 28-112.2.2; the table's alteration rows 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 are where every building and plumbing figure on this site comes from, and row 15.1 sends electrical work to department rules.
Verification
Last verified against the official source in Sep 2026.