Roof replacement
Fee basis: Based on project value.
Project value for the formula: low $8,000, typical $12,000, high $22,000.
City of Rochester building permit fees (changed effective July 1, 2026), retrieved Sep 1, 2026. These totals are for the City of Rochester, NY (Monroe County), not NYC and not Buffalo, and not Monroe County suburbs.
For complete tear-offs on structures containing conditioned space, a permit is required. Fees are the July 1, 2026 cost-of-work table.
The official fee band is $175 low, $235 typical, and $395 high. The official typical project value is $12,000.
Listed assumed job costs are $8,000 low, $12,000 typical, and $22,000 high. The building permit is a bracket table by actual cost of work, in $2,000 steps.
There is no percentage formula. Job cost (the actual cost of work), not roof area, picks the bracket.
Use the full contract price as that cost of work. The fee rises with each $2,000 bracket of cost of work.
The steps are not one fixed dollar amount from one bracket to the next. The exact figure for any other job value is on the City of Rochester table.
This page records only the three brackets that match the assumed job costs. Walk the typical first.
At $12,000 the job falls in the $10,001-$12,000 bracket, and that bracket is $235.00, so the typical fee is $235.00. The only listed permit line at that typical is the building permit based on actual cost of work at $235.00 (included; $10,001-$12,000 = $235).
- Low $8,000 falls in the $6,001-$8,000 bracket, and that bracket is $175.00, so the low fee is $175.00.
- High $22,000 falls in the $20,001-$22,000 bracket, and that bracket is $395.00, so the high fee is $395.00.
The $395.00 high is not added on top of the $235.00 typical. The $175.00 low is the same building permit at another bracket, not a second charge.
No other permit lines are listed. There is no extra listed line beyond the building permit.
Documented roof size, including 1,000 / 1,500 / 1,800 sf of roof surface, does not pick the bracket and does not change those fees. This note does not invent a fee beyond the official $175, $235, and $395 totals.
City of Rochester, NY (Monroe), not NYC and not Buffalo. A permit is required for complete tear-offs on structures containing conditioned space. Fees are the July 1, 2026 cost-of-work table.
City of Rochester building permit fees (changed effective July 1, 2026) Retrieved Sep 1, 2026.