Vermont is a recent arrival to contractor registration. 26 V.S.A. section 5501 has required registration with the Office of Professional Regulation since 1 July 2022, before contracting with a homeowner for residential construction worth more than $10,000, with the registration deadline set at 1 April 2023. The same figure triggers a written contract, before any deposit is taken.
| Service | Typical |
|---|---|
| Attorney hourly rateVermont average | $226 per hour |
| Full traditional dentureVermont average | $2,010 per arch |
Ranges last checked September 2026. They come down automatically when they are due to be rechecked.
Every figure above comes from a named source we can link to, with the date we last checked it. We publish ranges rather than single prices because a range is what a provider will actually give you: the same job moves with what is being worked on, the materials, how hard it is to get at and how busy the trade is locally. Treat these as the order of magnitude to expect before you call, not as a quote.
Where a source publishes figures state by state, this page shows the figure for this state rather than a national average. Where no state-level source exists, it shows the national range and the local factors that move a job within it. We do not scale a national number by a multiplier of our own invention.
Every range carries a review date. When that date passes the number comes down until it is rechecked, rather than sitting here undated.
26 V.S.A. section 5501(a) requires a person to register with the Office of Professional Regulation prior to contracting with a homeowner to perform residential construction in exchange for consideration of more than ten thousand dollars. It was added by 2021 Act 182 of the adjourned session, effective 1 July 2022, and the Office set 1 April 2023 as the date by which contractors had to be registered.
That recency is worth holding in mind. A contractor who has worked in Vermont for twenty years has held a registration for three of them, so a homeowner comparing two firms is not comparing decades of regulatory history.
There is a small discrepancy worth flagging rather than papering over. The statute says more than ten thousand dollars. The Office's own frequently asked questions page says ten thousand or more. The amount is not in dispute; what happens at exactly ten thousand is. This page follows the statute and says more than.
26 V.S.A. section 5509(b)(1) requires a registered residential contractor to execute a written contract prior to receiving a deposit or commencing residential construction work, where the estimated value of labor and materials exceeds ten thousand dollars.
Read carefully, that duty runs to a person registered under the chapter. It does not by its own terms bind a contractor who is not registered and is working below the threshold. The Office describes the obligation more broadly, as registrants attesting to the use of a written contract for all work regardless of amount. That is a real difference in scope between the statute and the regulator's summary, and this page states the statutory rule.
9 V.S.A. section 2454 gives a consumer in a home solicitation sale until midnight of the third business day after the day on which the consumer has signed. The section carries no dollar threshold on its face, though the definition of a home solicitation sale sits separately at 9 V.S.A. section 2451a and was not read for this page.
The table above carries two Vermont figures with a per-state source: attorney time, and a full traditional denture. Attorney time sits below the national median. The denture figure runs above the national average.
Auto repair shop labor is deliberately absent, and the reason is a rule this directory applies to itself. The index that publishes shop labor state by state contradicts its own table about where the low end of the national spread sits, and Vermont is one of the two states that figure names. Where a single source says two different things about the same number, that number does not get published. A missing row is better than a confident wrong one.
Check the registration with the Office of Professional Regulation rather than from a certificate. It is a young register, and it is searchable.
Price the job before the conversation about paperwork. Above ten thousand dollars both the registration and the written contract requirements engage. Below it the statutory duties described here do not, which is a reason to insist on a written contract yourself rather than rely on one being required.
Do not pay a deposit before the written contract exists. The statute puts the contract before the deposit in terms, and a deposit taken first is exactly the sequence the rule was written to prevent.
If the job was sold at your door, the three business days run from signing.
Before contracting with a homeowner for residential construction worth more than $10,000, under 26 V.S.A. section 5501(a). The requirement took effect 1 July 2022, and the Office of Professional Regulation set 1 April 2023 as the registration deadline.
The statute says more than. The Office's own FAQ says or more. The amount is not in dispute, only what happens at exactly $10,000. This page follows the statute.
26 V.S.A. section 5509(b)(1) requires a registered residential contractor to execute a written contract before receiving a deposit or commencing work, where the estimated value of labor and materials exceeds $10,000.
Not by its own terms. The duty runs to a person registered under the chapter. The Office describes it more broadly, so statute and regulator summary differ in scope here.
Until midnight of the third business day after signing, under 9 V.S.A. section 2454. The section carries no dollar threshold on its face.
Because the state-by-state source contradicts its own table about the low end of the national spread, and Vermont is one of the states that figure names. A number a source states two ways is not a sourced number.