General Contractor ads in San Jose: US$15.51 a click

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$459 in clicks at US$15.51 a click.

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

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

Where the general contractor searches are in San Jose

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

General searches are the largest share of counted search volume in San Jose, at 47.6%.

In San Jose, specific jobs has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at US$19.92 a click.

Plan a month of general contractor ads in San Jose

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Every general contractor keyword tracked in San Jose

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 San Jose are “general contractor” (1,662 searches a month at US$12.13 a click), “bathroom remodel” (665 searches a month at US$13.81 a click), and “general contractors near me” (582 searches a month at US$6.31 a click).

In San Jose, “home remodeler” is the keyword furthest from the country median: US$46.02 a click, 148.8% above the US$18.50 median click price for general contractor across this country's tracked cities.

In San Jose, “home extensions” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 10 searches a month.

In San Jose, 7 of the 11 counted general contractor keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

How San Jose compares in the United States

Over the 48 months tracked, general contractors searches in San Jose peaked in December 2025 at 13,440 and were lowest in December 2022 at 1,320. San Jose's single latest tracked month is down 61.2% on the same month a year ago and down 31.1% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In San Jose, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "general contractor", up 113.9%.

• San Jose is 17th of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.
• San Jose is 9th of 50 United States cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
• San Jose is 3rd of 6 California cities by click price, among the three lowest.
• San Jose is 2nd of 6 California cities by monthly searches, among the three highest.
• For this service, San Jose 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).
• San Jose's 194.0 searches a month per 100,000 people is above the country-wide rate of 75.9 for this service.
• San Jose's median general contractor click price of US$15.51 is 16.2% below the country median of US$18.50.
• Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 23.7% on the 12 months before.
• In San Jose, searches peak in December, about 70.0% above the monthly average, and are lowest in June.

General contractor businesses in San Jose

The US Census Bureau counts 914 businesses in this industry in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA (2023), about 4.6 for every 10,000 people.

What is counted: employer establishments.

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

Population: 1,984,473 (San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, 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.

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.

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 for general contractors in the United States

Licensing is set by each state.

Questions people ask about general contractor ads in San Jose

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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.