General Contractor ads in St. Louis: US$16.82 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$497 in clicks at US$16.82 a click.

Cost per booked job in St. Louis is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The rates are national benchmarks, not St. Louis 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 St. Louis

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 St. Louis, at 59.1%.

In St. Louis, specific jobs has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at US$18.15 a click.

Plan a month of general contractor ads in St. Louis

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Every general contractor keyword tracked in St. Louis

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 St. Louis are “bathroom remodel” (294 searches a month at US$27.88 a click), “general contractor” (211 searches a month at US$10.44 a click), and “general contractors near me” (191 searches a month at US$17.28 a click).

In St. Louis, “home additions” is the keyword furthest from the country median: US$88.76 a click, 379.8% above the US$18.50 median click price for general contractor across this country's tracked cities.

In St. Louis, “home extensions” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 8 searches a month.

In St. Louis, 10 of the 11 counted general contractor keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

How St. Louis compares in the United States

Over the 48 months tracked, general contractors searches in St. Louis peaked in February 2025 at 6,870 and were lowest in November 2025 at 770. St. Louis's single latest tracked month is down 2.7% on the same month a year ago and up 12.4% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In St. Louis, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "custom home builder", down 77.1%.

• St. Louis is 21st of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.
• St. Louis is 34th of 50 United States cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
• St. Louis is 1st of 2 Missouri cities by click price, the lowest.
• St. Louis is 1st of 2 Missouri cities by monthly searches, the highest.
• For this service, St. Louis sits in Missouri, which is 17th of 31 states by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table (an average of 3.8 businesses per 10,000 people across Missouri).
• St. Louis's 39.3 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 75.9 for this service.
• St. Louis's median general contractor click price of US$16.82 is 9.1% below the country median of US$18.50.
• Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 55.8% on the 12 months before.
• In St. Louis, searches peak in February, about 58.7% above the monthly average, and are lowest in December.

General contractor businesses in St. Louis

The US Census Bureau counts 1,083 businesses in this industry in St. Louis, MO-IL (2023), about 3.9 for every 10,000 people.

What is counted: employer establishments.

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

Population: 2,814,421 (St. Louis, MO-IL). 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 St. Louis

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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.