Bathroom work in Sarpy County is priced by a small number of Omaha-metro remodelers, several of whom publish finished project totals rather than vague averages. This page collects those figures alongside Bellevue's own permit fee tables and the Omaha metro trade wages. It is market research, not a quote.
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Or call (402) 698-8275Bellevue still prices building permits off the 1997 Uniform Administrative Code table the city publishes: $69.25 for the first $2,000 of valuation plus $14.00 for each additional $1,000. Eighteen additional thousands on a twenty-thousand-dollar job brings it to $321.25.
Each fixture or trap is $9.80 on top of the $23.50 permit issuance charge, altering drainage or vent piping is $4.75 per fixture, and a failed plumbing reinspection is $49.50. A three-fixture bathroom therefore files at $52.90.
The master fee schedule adopted by Resolution 2026-16 multiplies the regular permit fee by four when work begins first. City licenses are cheap by comparison: a master plumber registers for $75 and a Class C residential contractor for $100 a year.
May 2025 median for 2,430 plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters across the Omaha-Council Bluffs metro, a dollar above the Dallas-Fort Worth figure. Tile and stone setters here sit at $29.34.
Every range below is what companies working in Bellevue publish for that job, gathered from the numbered price pages under the table. It spans what several of them show, so the figures move with the specifics of the property and with who does the work. Nothing here is a quote, and no business has set a price on this page. A real number comes from whoever looks at the job.
| The job | Range seen | Billed as | What moves it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tub taken out, tiled walk-in shower installed | $9,000–$12,00012 | flat, shower area only | Demolition, waterproofing, base, walls, glass and the plumbing changes the swap forces. Tile choice is the swing factor. |
| Small bathroom, roughly forty to fifty square feet | $8,000–$20,000345 | flat, gut and replace | Capehart-era and other mid-century baths in Bellevue are this size, with shallow walls that limit where pipe can run. |
| Hall bath, whole room replaced | $15,000–$30,000236 | flat, gut and replace | New subfloor, tile, vanity, toilet and shower with the layout kept. This is the most common full job in the metro. |
| Primary bath with a walk-in shower and double vanity | $25,000–$80,000346 | flat, gut and reconfigure | Moving the drain or supply lines adds thousands on its own, and a lower-level bath adds a check for old moisture damage. |
| Finished projects with the price published, one bathroom | $20,000–$55,00027 | completed job, as posted | Real Sarpy County and Omaha jobs rather than a band: a 42 square foot Bellevue bath and a 6 by 10 Omaha bath among them. |
| Rate per square foot, standard renovation | $150–$30046 | per square foot | Useful for sanity-checking a bid on an odd-sized room, since a small bath still needs every trade to show up. |
Prices each of these companies publishes on its own site, read on the date shown in each listing. A published price can change without notice, so treat a number here as what was posted rather than what you will be told today.
Actual project numbers are visible here instead of national averages. Firms working Bellevue, Papillion and La Vista post finished jobs with square footage attached: a 42 square foot Bellevue bathroom, an 86 square foot Papillion bathroom, a 120 square foot La Vista bathroom, a 6 by 10 Omaha bath and a 10 by 12 in Elkhorn all carry prices on remodelers' own sites.
National bath-liner franchises here publish promotions instead of prices, and one established local remodeler declines to post figures at all. Each row above rests on a handful of firms.
Bellevue still prices permits off the 1997 Uniform Administrative Code tables the city publishes. Building permit fees run $69.25 for the first $2,000 of job valuation plus $14.00 for each additional $1,000. Take a $20,000 bathroom: $69.25 plus eighteen increments at $14.00 is $321.25. A $34,000 project moves into the next band at $391.75 for the first $25,000 plus $10.10 per additional thousand, or $482.65.
Plumbing is permitted separately. Each fixture or trap is $9.80 on top of $23.50 permit issuance, so a toilet, lavatory and shower files at $52.90. Altering drainage or vent piping is $4.75 per fixture, and a plumbing reinspection is $49.50. Building inspections outside normal hours and additional plan review run $47.00 an hour. Total permit cost on that $20,000 bathroom is therefore about $374, and on the $34,000 Bellevue project about $536.
Those are small numbers next to the project. The penalty is not: the master fee schedule adopted by Resolution 2026-16 charges four times the regular permit fee when work starts before the permit issues. The Permits and Inspection Division treats replacing plumbing material or rearranging pipes and fixtures as new work needing a permit, so a bathroom is not exempt because nothing moved. Registration costs little: $75 a year for a city master plumber, $100 for a Class C residential contractor.
Plumbers across the Omaha-Council Bluffs metro had a median wage of $30.48 an hour in May 2025 across 2,430 workers, with tile and stone setters at $29.34, per the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. With a modest number of qualified bath crews in the metro, scheduling is the real constraint: a good tile setter is booked weeks out.
Housing vintage runs in distinct chapters here. Capehart-era base housing dates from around 1959 to 1961, and compact bathrooms of that era have shallow stud walls that will not take a modern valve body without furring out, which shrinks a room already tight on clearance. Cast-iron stacks and galvanized branch lines turn up regularly, and replacing one back to the main is a real line item.
Lower-level bathrooms deserve extra scrutiny. During the March 2019 Missouri River flood, water reached Offutt Air Force Base and affected roughly thirty buildings there. Not every Sarpy County basement took water, but moisture history is worth confirming before new finishes cover a lower level.
A usable bid spells out demolition and haul-away, which supply and drain runs are replaced or relocated, the waterproofing system by name, and tile square footage with an allowance for each type. It also gives vanity and top dimensions, fixtures by model number, glass thickness, fan capacity in cubic feet per minute, a permit line covering building and plumbing both, and money released against finished milestones. Where tile or fixtures ride on an allowance, the total will still move.
Watch the wet-area-only sale. Replacing a tub or shower surround in a day is a real product with a place at the bottom of the table, and for a household that needs a dry, safe shower it can be right. It is not a full remodel, and its price does not predict one. Watch too for an accessibility upgrade priced like a luxury renovation: bars, a comfort-height toilet and a curbless entry sit below a gut job.
Every band here presumes the room keeps its footprint and that framing and subfloor are sound. Left out: both permits, relocating drain or supply lines, replacing a cast-iron stack, structural repair found at demolition, electrical work for a heated floor or new lighting, moisture remediation in a lower level, and the weeks a special-order vanity adds to a schedule already limited by crew availability.
Begin with a Bellevue site visit and a construction scope detailed enough to build from. Before work starts, you should understand the room plan, the work behind the finishes, permit-sensitive items, included selections, written price, expected sequence, and target finish date.
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