I am going to build a steel building that is 60 x 40. I am trying to find out an approximate cost for a concrete pad. I believe it will be 4 inches thick with it thicker where the pillars will set.

At least an arm and part of a leg.

If you lived where I do,I would charge $3 a square ft.That is for 4 inch,4000 psi concrete with no steel rienforcment,or fiber.
This is my floor in my new pole barn.It is about a 7 inch floor

All you got plus 10%. Do not do it on a week end.

I just got a price for a 24x36 pad ,6” slab.12x12 haunch .$8500

Phil ,could you move closer my way lol

PSB1011, How is your market out there that low. We're a small company so I can stay under ( market value) and I'm 4 a sq ft with 10 gauge wire and sealer. I hear 5 dollar quotes around here alot

I was given a ballpark price the other day for footing , stem wall , slab .

30 x 60 - $20,000

last time I called for a price on Cement, it was $850.00 for a truckload,

If you are talking 10 yard load and that is on the job price that seems cheap enough. Our plant will tell ya $85/yard, but by the time you get a hauling charge and winter service charge (that never seems to leave come spring, they just add more next fall ) it will cost $125/ yard for a load over 6 yards. Anything less than 6 is another charge for short load. Dang bill looks like a phone bill with all the additional charges.

Now, if you did that concrete job in MEXICO, a Cement worker gets between 200 and 600 pesos on average per day. That is $29.44 PER DAY. Figure $2.94 an hour for a 10 hour work day.

I paid 170 a yard(12 yards)last fall

Delivered

If this is all fact it brings a lot to light for me. Before the housing crash of 08 the hispanics would come up to the KC area and work for $6 or $8/hour cash. It sucked as lots of companies would hire them and cut our throats on bids. I always wandered how the hispanics could work for so little, but if you think about that being cash=no taxes and 10 of them splitting rent and gas to the job in there van it was a lot of money when they headed back south for the winter. Hate to say it, but I expect to see it happening all over again with the current administration.
I do kind of miss the ladies bringing around tamales and other mexican food to the job sights at lunch time when the hispanics was thick.

$450.00 minimum on a small load (less than 3 yards) in my area. About $120.00 a yard after that.

Just had 12+30 addition and concrete drive plus walk poured . Pad had activater and hot water (7 bucks a gal). Total was 13.5 yards Material was 2100 that is steel and all. Labor for forming and finishing was $460 bucks but I gave each of the 3 workers another 100 bucks each. Why ? Because I can afford it and they worked me in . I posted pics of the addition but haven't gotten outside to take any of drive and walkway.

$16500 here all depends on the cost of the mud delivery time miles if there is any competition the cost to lay it will be very competitive.

Concrete here is $130/yd for 4000 and no additives.

If you lived where I do,I would charge $3 a square ft.That is for 4 inch,4000 psi concrete with no steel rienforcment,or fiber.
This is my floor in my new pole barn.It is about a 7 inch floor

Phil, it has been a long time since I did any concrete work. Do you not use steel rebar or wire or mesh, or is that old school. Or is it an added charge.
thanks

Mac

Harvester
Good number!