President Trump’s 50% steel tariff and the accompanying 42% increase in steel prices haven’t been kind to Billboard Insider readers. 95% of our readers have seen their billboard project costs increase over the past year. 35% of our readers have seen project costs increase by more than 20%. To receive […]
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Billboard Construction Costs
Our readers were right when they challenged Billboard Insider’s estimate that it costs $80,000 to construct a 14′ by 48′ static billboard and $30,000 to construct a 12′ by 25′ steel monopole static billboard. Here are the results of Billboard Insider’s survey on construction costs. One in three of our […]
How much does it cost you to build a static steel monopole billboard?
Billboard Insider had several readers comment that we underestimated billboard construction costs when we wrote in Creating Value By Building Static Billboards that it was possible to build. 12′ by 25′ steel monopole for $30,000 and a 14′ by 48′ steel monopole for $80,000. Costs vary geographically and also by […]

















