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What does reinforcing steel cost per pound?

Public agencies in 22 states paid a median $2.10 per pound for reinforcing steel over the last five years, across 9,231 winning bids. The middle half of awarded prices ran from $1.63 to $3.20.

Updated November 2026.

$2.10median per pound

$1.63 – $3.20middle half of awards

9,231winning bids

By year

Letting year	Median per pound	Winning bids
2021	$1.83	426
2022	$2.00	1,929
2023	$2.25	1,754
2024	$2.20	1,918
2025	$2.00	1,991
2026	$2.18	1,213

By state

State	Median per pound	Middle half	Winning bids
Pennsylvania	$2.60	$2.00 – $4.00	1,500
Kansas	$1.94	$1.50 – $3.00	1,260
Indiana	$1.75	$1.50 – $2.11	924
Iowa	$1.83	$1.39 – $3.50	831
Minnesota	$2.00	$1.60 – $4.00	655
California	$2.30	$1.71 – $4.00	544
Missouri	$2.20	$1.85 – $3.00	504
Arkansas	$2.20	$1.85 – $2.75	426
Oklahoma	$1.60	$1.38 – $2.00	417
South Dakota	$3.28	$2.50 – $5.00	312
Florida	$2.00	$1.60 – $3.00	272
North Carolina	$1.95	$1.58 – $2.30	210
Louisiana	$2.00	$1.60 – $3.00	196
Colorado	$2.53	$1.75 – $4.08	154
Tennessee	$2.00	$1.65 – $2.75	154
Maine	$1.19	$1.00 – $2.00	144
North Dakota	$3.50	$2.25 – $5.00	140
Vermont	$2.65	$2.00 – $3.50	139
Mississippi	$2.66	$2.00 – $4.00	116
Utah	$1.85	$1.52 – $2.75	115
Montana	$2.75	$2.50 – $3.25	84
South Carolina	$3.40	$2.90 – $3.83	35

County and agency prices, and a CSV of every bid

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Winning bids only, letting dates 2021 onward, nominal dollars. A family groups items that agencies print under different descriptions by unit and key words; thickness, class and spec details can differ inside it. Prices more than six times the family median are dropped as print or unit errors (8.0% of rows). A state appears with 30+ winning bids from 10+ bid tabulations.