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Plumbing leads: Plumbing Lead Channel Price Index

The Plumbing Lead Channel Price Index carries 4 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages, from 14 to 183 USD, read 12 September 2026.

RoughInDesk sells its own paid plan in this category (our pricing). It is not counted here: every figure in this index is another provider's own published price, read from its own page.

14 to 183 USD Range of the published figures 4 published figures, not one market: read the rows
4 Sources with a figure of 41 read in full, 5 Oct 2026
4 of 41 Sources read that publish one 10% publish a figure at all
  1. SearchLight Digital - plumbing Google Ads cost per lead183 USD
  2. 99 Calls - Google Ads lead costs for plumbers130 USD
  3. Result Calls - plumbing leads24.85 USD
  4. Networx - contractor leads14 USD
One figure per source, highest first.
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RowValue
SearchLight Digital - plumbing Google Ads cost per lead183 USD
99 Calls - Google Ads lead costs for plumbers130 USD
Result Calls - plumbing leads24.85 USD
Networx - contractor leads14 USD

4 of the 41 named sources read in full publish a figure; 37 publish none, read 12 September 2026.

By channel

BreakdownMedianRangeSources
channelpay per call (Result Calls, own published rate)24.85USD24.85 to 24.85USD1
channelshared marketplace lead (Networx, own prepaid price)14USD14 to 14USD1
channelGoogle Ads (99 Calls client median)130USD130 to 130USD1
channelGoogle Ads non-branded (SearchLight benchmark)183USD183 to 183USD1

Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.

SourceFigureBreakdownRead
SearchLight Digital - plumbing Google Ads cost per lead183USDGoogle Ads non-branded (SearchLight benchmark)2026-09-12
99 Calls - Google Ads lead costs for plumbers130USDGoogle Ads (99 Calls client median)2026-09-12
Result Calls - plumbing leads24.85USDpay per call (Result Calls, own published rate)2026-09-12
Networx - contractor leads14USDshared marketplace lead (Networx, own prepaid price)2026-09-12
The sentence each figure was read from (4)
  • SearchLight Digital - plumbing Google Ads cost per lead, read 2026-09-12: Based on the SearchLight revenue attribution platform benchmark data, which tracked $14.6M in non-branded Google Ads spend across 524 plumbing contractors and 2,554 non-branded and PMAX campaigns from January through March 2026, the average cost per lead (CPL) for plumbing on Google Ads in the United States is $183.
  • 99 Calls - Google Ads lead costs for plumbers, read 2026-09-12: Median plumbing lead costs ranged from $130 to $268 during the first seven months of 2026.
  • Result Calls - plumbing leads, read 2026-09-12: Our rates start as low as $24.85 per call, but the exact price per call depends on your business category, the services you offer, and your coverage area.
  • Networx - contractor leads, read 2026-09-12: Our most popular plan is the prepaid system that allows contractors to pre-buy leads (each lead costing anywhere from $14 to $100 each).

Read in full, publishes no figure

37 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.

Methodology

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).

4 of the 41 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 37 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 2 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.

The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in USD (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 371 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.

The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per channel per metro: the published or contractor-reported cost per lead, the exclusivity (how many contractors the lead is sold to), the booked rate where it is published, and from those the COST PER BOOKED JOB, which is the only number that compares a $25 shared marketplace lead with a $150 exclusive call; beside it the agency retainer band from the agencies that publish one and the share of the market that publishes nothing at all

371 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.

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The Plumbing Lead Channel Price Index carries 4 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages, from 14 to 183 USD, read 12 September 2026.

4 of the 41 named sources read in full publish a figure; 37 publish none, read 12 September 2026.

Plumbing Lead Channel Price Index, channel pay per call (Result Calls, own published rate): median 24.85 USD across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.

Plumbing Lead Channel Price Index, channel shared marketplace lead (Networx, own prepaid price): median 14 USD across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.

Plumbing Lead Channel Price Index, channel Google Ads (99 Calls client median): median 130 USD across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.

Plumbing Lead Channel Price Index, channel Google Ads non-branded (SearchLight benchmark): median 183 USD across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.

Cite as: "RoughInDesk Plumbing Lead Channel Price Index", updated 2026-10-05, https://roughindesk.com/datasets/plumbing-lead-channel-price-index/.

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14 to 183 USD

4 published figures, Plumbing Lead Channel Price Index, across 4 sources, read 12 September 2026

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