How Much Does It Cost to Install a Level 2 EV Charger in Your State?

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The short answer: No state page on this hub invents a statewide installation price. The 2022 Idaho National Laboratory sample of Smart Charge America residential jobs shows an installation median of $1,098 and a mean of $1,310, from about $150 to about $18,000, with the charger not included. The U.S. mean electrician wage in the May 2025 OEWS release was $34.37 an hour. Each state card shows that state's wage index and whether AFDC lists a resident or make-ready dollar amount.

Operating cost, after the charger is in, is a different question. The EV charging cost by state pages use EIA residential prices. Rebates that can come off the install are on the home charger rebate guide. Whether the panel can take the circuit is the panel guide, which does not publish an upgrade price.

Sources and methodology

Last reviewed 2026-10-25. Hardware, installation, and incentives are kept in the scope the source actually measured. A state page never adds those scopes into one "cost to install in this state."

Charger hardware is a separate price from installation. Idaho National Laboratory report INL/RPT-22-68598 (Schey, Chu, and Smart, August 2022) checked Amazon.com and found 30 basic residential Level 2 wall-mount units from $335 to $899, with a median of $549, and a median of $575 for 22 smart units. That report quotes Rocky Mountain Institute at $380 to $689. The AFDC infrastructure page, reviewed on 2026-10-25, quotes the RMI range as $380 to $690. Both wordings are cited. This page does not pick one.

Sources: Schey, Chu, and Smart, Breakdown of Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Installation Costs, INL/RPT-22-68598, August 2022; OSTI PDF of INL/RPT-22-68598; AFDC, Procurement and Installation for Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure.

The same INL report uses Smart Charge America billing records: more than 4,800 residential records, primarily from July 2018 to May 2022, from contractors in 20 major metros and from outside those metros. Installation cost, analyzed separately from the charger price, ran from about $150 to about $18,000. The mean was $1,310 and the median was $1,098. 45% of those installation costs were under $800. The report defines that installation cost as labor, materials such as wiring and conduit, permit fees, travel, and added fees such as design and overhead. Do not add labor again on top of $1,310.

Sources: Schey, Chu, and Smart, INL/RPT-22-68598, August 2022.

AFDC's infrastructure page says residential Level 2 installation is approximately $1,300 per connector and says that figure does not include labor and permitting. It cites the National Laboratory of the Rockies and Idaho National Laboratory levelized-cost report. That is a different citation, and a different scope, from the $1,310 mean above, which already includes labor and permits. Do not stack the two figures.

Sources: AFDC, Procurement and Installation for Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure.

The federal Alternative Fuel Vehicle Refueling Property Credit, 26 U.S.C. 30C, expired for property placed in service after June 30, 2026. AFDC lists that expiration date. For a charger at a principal residence in a qualified location from January 1, 2023, through June 30, 2026, the credit was 30% of the cost, up to $1,000. A new installation does not qualify. In that same window, the business credit was 6% of depreciable costs, or 30% if prevailing-wage and apprenticeship rules were met, up to $100,000 per item. That business credit is also closed for property placed in service after June 30, 2026.

Sources: AFDC law 10513, Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Tax Credit; IRS, Instructions for Form 8911.

The INL report also quotes a 2019 ICCT working paper: a single-home Level 2 circuit upgrade averaged $680, and a Level 2 charger upgrade averaged $1,400, with underlying studies from $650 to $2,423. Those figures are not the Smart Charge America median.

Sources: Schey, Chu, and Smart, INL/RPT-22-68598, quoting Nicholas, ICCT, 2019.

Six residential Smart Charge America jobs included a service upgrade. The totals were $2,558 to $5,341. Subtracting the $1,310 mean, the report puts the upgrade increment at $1,248 to $4,031. The summary says service upgrades added about $2,600. Both statements are in the report. Six jobs are not a statewide price.

Sources: Schey, Chu, and Smart, INL/RPT-22-68598, sections 3.4.4 and 3.4.9.

For an average installation, the report says cost increases between $12 and $18 per foot from the power source. The summary says about $12 per foot. Circuit cost increased about $92 per kW above 4 kW. Accessories were in about 5% of residential installations and cost $49 to $900.

Sources: Schey, Chu, and Smart, INL/RPT-22-68598, sections 3.4.2, 3.4.5, and 3.4.9.

The report says permit fees typically make up 3.5% of project cost. The only city fees it prints are in Texas: $15 in North Richmond to $100 in Dallas, from 0.3% to 11.3% of installation cost, averaging 3.5%. The report uses the name North Richmond. Average electrician time was 5.4 hours, and average time from contract to completion was 21 days. Do not multiply 5.4 hours by a wage to invent a labor quote. A contractor's bill rate is not the BLS wage.

Sources: Schey, Chu, and Smart, INL/RPT-22-68598, sections 3.4.7 through 3.4.9.

Of the residential EVSE installs in that sample, 3,274 (95%) were Tesla units and 173 (5%) were other brands, plus 1,383 circuit-only jobs. The report leaves Smart Charge America hardware prices out of the hardware analysis because of that Tesla mix.

Sources: Schey, Chu, and Smart, INL/RPT-22-68598, section 3.1.2.

The report treats multifamily installations as commercial. For a single Level 2 unit at a condominium or apartment, installation ranged from $544 to $13,537. The average was $4,548 and the median was $3,983. 54% were under $4,000. The ICCT apartment Level 2 average quoted in the report was $3,300. Those figures are not the single-family median.

Sources: Schey, Chu, and Smart, INL/RPT-22-68598, section 3.2.2.1.

Wages

Cross-industry wage-and-salary workers. OEWS excludes the self-employed. May 2025 estimates use the BLS model-based method on three years of survey data (MB3). The wage index is the state mean hourly wage divided by the U.S. mean hourly wage, rounded to two decimals. The percent versus the U.S. mean is rounded to the nearest percent. It is not a bill rate and it is not multiplied by hours. State pages link the BLS state table. The U.S. mean used for the index is $34.37 an hour ($71,490 a year; employment 757,220), from the national electricians table. Retrieved 2026-10-25.

Programs

State and local programs are taken from the AFDC laws API extract reviewed on 2026-10-25. Archived, expired, and repealed records are omitted. A hydrogen fueling rebate is omitted. A dollar sentence is an AFDC substring unless it names an agency page retrieved on October 30, 2026, that states a different figure or says the AFDC figure is not confirmed. Utility bullets come from the Residential Incentives / Infrastructure section and are not given a dollar amount the bullet does not state. The AFDC U-Finder is the address lookup.

States

Census divisions match the charging-cost hub. "Resident or make-ready amount" means AFDC states a dollar figure a resident or a make-ready project can receive. It does not mean every household qualifies.

East South Central

AlabamaElectrician mean $27.65/hr · index 0.80 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set KentuckyElectrician mean $29.52/hr · index 0.86 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set MississippiElectrician mean $27.88/hr · index 0.81 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set TennesseeElectrician mean $30.55/hr · index 0.89 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set

Pacific Noncontiguous

AlaskaElectrician mean $43.29/hr · index 1.26 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set HawaiiElectrician mean $44.65/hr · index 1.30 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set

Mountain

ArizonaElectrician mean $30.88/hr · index 0.90 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set ColoradoElectrician mean $31.88/hr · index 0.93 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set IdahoElectrician mean $32.02/hr · index 0.93 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set MontanaElectrician mean $34.58/hr · index 1.01 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set NevadaElectrician mean $36.40/hr · index 1.06 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set New MexicoElectrician mean $28.66/hr · index 0.83 · AFDC lists a resident or make-ready amount UtahElectrician mean $31.39/hr · index 0.91 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set WyomingElectrician mean $35.99/hr · index 1.05 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set

West South Central

ArkansasElectrician mean $25.71/hr · index 0.75 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set LouisianaElectrician mean $29.98/hr · index 0.87 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set OklahomaElectrician mean $30.49/hr · index 0.89 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set TexasElectrician mean $28.50/hr · index 0.83 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set

Pacific Contiguous

CaliforniaElectrician mean $41.28/hr · index 1.20 · AFDC lists a resident or make-ready amount OregonElectrician mean $47.96/hr · index 1.40 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set WashingtonElectrician mean $45.42/hr · index 1.32 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set

New England

ConnecticutElectrician mean $37.21/hr · index 1.08 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set MaineElectrician mean $37.14/hr · index 1.08 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set MassachusettsElectrician mean $39.21/hr · index 1.14 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set New HampshireElectrician mean $31.63/hr · index 0.92 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set Rhode IslandElectrician mean $35.65/hr · index 1.04 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set VermontElectrician mean $35.27/hr · index 1.03 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set

South Atlantic

DelawareElectrician mean $34.02/hr · index 0.99 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set District of ColumbiaElectrician mean $42.72/hr · index 1.24 · AFDC lists a resident or make-ready amount FloridaElectrician mean $27.72/hr · index 0.81 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set GeorgiaElectrician mean $29.37/hr · index 0.85 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set MarylandElectrician mean $36.28/hr · index 1.06 · AFDC lists a resident or make-ready amount North CarolinaElectrician mean $27.33/hr · index 0.80 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set South CarolinaElectrician mean $28.38/hr · index 0.83 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set VirginiaElectrician mean $32.62/hr · index 0.95 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set West VirginiaElectrician mean $32.61/hr · index 0.95 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set

East North Central

IllinoisElectrician mean $44.34/hr · index 1.29 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set IndianaElectrician mean $34.05/hr · index 0.99 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set MichiganElectrician mean $35.50/hr · index 1.03 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set OhioElectrician mean $33.09/hr · index 0.96 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set WisconsinElectrician mean $35.49/hr · index 1.03 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set

West North Central

IowaElectrician mean $30.38/hr · index 0.88 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set KansasElectrician mean $33.27/hr · index 0.97 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set MinnesotaElectrician mean $38.86/hr · index 1.13 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set MissouriElectrician mean $34.77/hr · index 1.01 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set NebraskaElectrician mean $30.75/hr · index 0.89 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set North DakotaElectrician mean $33.87/hr · index 0.99 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set South DakotaElectrician mean $29.80/hr · index 0.87 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set

Middle Atlantic

New JerseyElectrician mean $41.68/hr · index 1.21 · AFDC lists a resident or make-ready amount New YorkElectrician mean $40.80/hr · index 1.19 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set PennsylvaniaElectrician mean $36.43/hr · index 1.06 · no resident dollar cap in the reviewed AFDC set

Follow-ups

Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands have May 2025 BLS electrician wage rows. They are not given pages here because the charging-cost guide covers the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Smart Charge America state averages appear as Figure 17 in INL/RPT-22-68598 and are not printed as a numeric table. This page does not digitize that chart.
City permit fees beyond the Texas figures printed in that report are not collected here.
Many utility rebate dollar amounts are absent from the AFDC residential infrastructure bullets. Those dollars are not filled in from utility PDFs in this edition.
Programs that open or change after 2026-10-25 are not reflected until the AFDC extract is reviewed again.
A City of Santa Barbara completed-project average is not used as a California installation price.
An older combined equipment-and-installation estimate is not used. The pages keep hardware and installation in the scopes named above.

FAQ

How much does it cost to install a Level 2 EV charger?

No state page on this hub invents a statewide installation price. The 2022 Idaho National Laboratory sample of Smart Charge America residential jobs shows an installation median of $1,098 and a mean of $1,310, from about $150 to about $18,000, with the charger not included. The U.S. mean electrician wage in the May 2025 OEWS release was $34.37 an hour. Each state card shows that state's wage index and whether AFDC lists a resident or make-ready dollar amount.

Why isn't there a single installation price for my state?

The installation report's state averages are Figure 17, a chart without a numeric table. This hub does not digitize that chart. It pairs the national sample with the state's BLS electrician wage and the AFDC programs reviewed on 2026-10-25. A written local quote is still the price that applies to a house.

Can a new home Level 2 installation still claim the federal 30C credit?

Sources

Schey, Chu, and Smart, INL/RPT-22-68598, August 2022. PDF.
AFDC infrastructure cost page. Reviewed 2026-10-25.
AFDC law 10513 and IRS Instructions for Form 8911.
BLS OEWS national electricians and state tables. Retrieved 2026-10-25.