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General Contractor ads in Sacramento: US$21.25 a click

A Google Ads click for a general contractor in Sacramento costs US$21.25 at the search-weighted average (1,102 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 47.5% on the 12 months before.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
US$21.25
Searches a month
1,102
Year on year
down 47.5%
Click cost per booked job
US$629

At a lead rate of 8.05% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Home & Home Improvement) and a booking rate of 42% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, ServiceTitan, call-booking rate for trades), a booked job costs about US$629 in clicks at US$21.25 a click.

In Sacramento, the lowest click price on this page is near me at US$2.88. The highest click price on this page in Sacramento is general searches at US$44.01.

Cost per booked job

What a booked job costs in clicks

At a lead rate of 8.05% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Home & Home Improvement) and a booking rate of 42% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, ServiceTitan, call-booking rate for trades), a booked job costs about US$629 in clicks at US$21.25 a click.

Cost per booked job in Sacramento is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The rates are national benchmarks, not Sacramento figures; the planner below starts from them and you can change both.

Intent groupClick pricePer booked job
General searchesUS$44.01US$1,302
Near meUS$2.88US$85
Specific jobsUS$18.23US$539

Each row uses the same two rates as the sentence above, so the order follows click price.

By intent

Where the general contractor searches are in Sacramento

Searches split by what the searcher typed. The two tags rank the groups on this page by click price; they are rankings, not verdicts.

Specific jobs are the largest share of counted search volume in Sacramento, at 58.3%.

In Sacramento, general searches has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at US$44.01 a click.

General searches

Highest click price on this page
“general contractor”, “home remodeler”
Searches a month272, 24.7% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$44.01
In Sacramento, 3rd of 3 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Near me

Lowest click price on this page
“general contractors near me”
Searches a month188, 17.0% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$2.88
In Sacramento, 1st of 3 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Specific jobs

“home renovations”, “kitchen remodel”, “bathroom remodel”, “home additions”, “basement finishing”, “custom home builder”, “home extensions”, “whole home renovation”
Searches a month643, 58.3% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$18.23

Related keywords

Not counted
“new home builder”
Searches a month77
Click price, weighted avgUS$9.61
Related keywords sit next to this service but are not counted in the searches or the search-weighted average click price above.
Plan

Plan a month of general contractor ads in Sacramento

Put in your own value per job and margin. The call and booking rates start at the benchmarks named under each box; change them to your own.

What the budget buys (worked example)

Clicks a month
47.1
Calls or forms
3.8
Booked jobs
1.6
Click cost per booked job
US$629

US$1,000 at US$21.25 a click buys about 47.1 clicks a month.

If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 3.8 calls and 1.6 booked jobs, so each booked job costs about US$629 in clicks.

Put in your value per job and your margin to see whether this pays back.

Keywords

Every general contractor keyword tracked in Sacramento

Monthly searches are the average of the last 12 months. Related keywords are shown for context and are not counted in any total on this page.

The most-searched general contractor keywords in Sacramento are “bathroom remodel” (325 searches a month at US$18.43 a click), “general contractor” (232 searches a month at US$44.01 a click), and “general contractors near me” (188 searches a month at US$2.88 a click).

In Sacramento, “general contractor” is the keyword furthest from the country median: US$44.01 a click, 137.9% above the US$18.50 median click price for general contractor across this country's tracked cities.

In Sacramento, “home extensions” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 6 searches a month.

In Sacramento, 6 of the 11 counted general contractor keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
general contractorGeneral searches232US$44.01
home remodelerGeneral searches40no price
general contractors near meNear me188US$2.88
bathroom remodelSpecific jobs325US$18.43
kitchen remodelSpecific jobs170US$23.90
custom home builderSpecific jobs78US$4.30
home renovationsSpecific jobs32US$20.06
home additionsSpecific jobs11no price
whole home renovationSpecific jobs11no price
basement finishingSpecific jobs10no price
home extensionsSpecific jobs6no price
new home builder
Related, not counted
Related keywords77US$9.61
Ranks and trend

How Sacramento compares in the United States

Over the 48 months tracked, general contractors searches in Sacramento peaked in February 2023 at 3,890 and were lowest in May 2026 at 870. Sacramento's single latest tracked month is up 0.9% on the same month a year ago and down 42.4% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Sacramento, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "home remodeler", down 89.9%.

  • Sacramento is 34th of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.
  • Sacramento is 35th of 50 United States cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
  • Sacramento is 5th of 6 California cities by click price, among the three highest.
  • Sacramento is 5th of 6 California cities by monthly searches, among the three lowest.
  • For this service, Sacramento sits in California, which is 20th of 31 states by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table (an average of 4.6 businesses per 10,000 people across California).
  • Sacramento's 44.5 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 75.9 for this service.
  • Sacramento's median general contractor click price of US$21.25 is 14.9% above the country median of US$18.50.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 47.5% on the 12 months before.
  • In Sacramento, searches peak in November, about 21.0% above the monthly average, and are lowest in August.
Businesses

General contractor businesses in Sacramento

The US Census Bureau counts 1,094 businesses in this industry in Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA (2023), about 4.4 for every 10,000 people.

What is counted: employer establishments.

Counts cover businesses with employees; most sole traders are not included.

Population: 2,477,274 (Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA). Source: US Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP), MSA/micropolitan estimates, vintage 2023.

Business counts are never compared across countries on this site: each country's statistics agency counts a different set of businesses.

6 countries

General contractor click prices in 6 countries

United States is 6th of 6 countries by median general contractor click price (lowest first), all in US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

CountryMedian click (US$)Searches per 100,000 peopleCities
IrelandUS$2.7685.85
United KingdomUS$4.3853.225
AustraliaUS$6.72155.425
New ZealandUS$7.2191.36
CanadaUS$9.3183.813
United States
this page's country
US$18.5075.950

Medians across each country's tracked cities, same pull month. Each country uses its own keyword set and its own name for the service. Only click prices and searches are compared across borders; business counts are not.

Rules

Rules for general contractors in the United States

Licensing is set by each state.

FAQ

Questions people ask about general contractor ads in Sacramento

How much does a Google Ads click cost for a general contractor in Sacramento?

US$21.25 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted general contractor search terms in Sacramento (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026). Sacramento is 34th of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.

How many people search for a general contractor in Sacramento each month?

1,102 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 47.5% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026).

What does a booked job cost in clicks for general contractors in Sacramento?

At a lead rate of 8.05% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Home & Home Improvement) and a booking rate of 42.00% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, ServiceTitan, call-booking rate for trades), a booked job costs about US$629 in clicks at US$21.25 a click.

Where do the numbers on this page come from?

Searches and click prices: Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026. Lead rate: LocaliQ 2026 (US benchmark). Booking rate: ServiceTitan (US/Canada benchmark). Population and business counts: US Census Bureau County Business Patterns (CBP) 2022, bulk file cbp22msa.zip (NAICS x MSA) (Residential Remodelers). Every source is listed at the bottom of this page.

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Method

Search terms: a fixed keyword set per service for United States, tagged by intent (general, near me, urgent and specific jobs), targeted to Sacramento with Google Ads location codes, not a text match.

Monthly searches is the average of the last 12 months, summed across the counted keywords. Related keywords are listed but never counted.

Click price is the search-weighted average click price across the counted keywords (sum of each keyword's click price times its monthly searches, divided by total searches), as Google Ads reports the per-keyword prices via DataForSEO.

Year on year compares the last 12 months of counted searches with the 12 months before.

Cost per booked job is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The lead rate is LocaliQ's US share of clicks that become calls or forms for the closest industry (US benchmark); the booking rate is ServiceTitan's share of calls that book, for trades (US/Canada benchmark). Where either rate has no source, the page prints no number.

Google Ads reports click prices in US$, so no currency conversion applies.

The tags “Lowest click price on this page” and “Highest click price on this page” rank the intent groups on this page by click price. They are rankings, not verdicts.

Sources

Data and sources

Search data pulled October 13, 2026. Google Keyword Planner estimates via DataForSEO, not what you will pay at auction; your own Google Ads account shows your real price.

DatasetLicense
DataForSEO, retrieved October 13, 2026
DataForSEO Terms of Service (paid API)
US benchmark lead rate (calls and forms), Home & Home Improvement
Published benchmark, cited
US/Canada benchmark booking rate, trades
Published benchmark, cited
Business counts, 2023
US government work / public domain
Population

Related: General Contractor in Los Angeles, General Contractor in Riverside, General Contractor in San Francisco, General Contractor across United States, All services in Sacramento.

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