Home Elevator Cost in Wyoming

We based these figures on our look at published price ranges. For each style of lift, we found the middle of the low ends and the middle of the high ends.

A shaftless lift runs on rails and travels through a hole cut in the floor, so you never build an enclosed shaft. A pneumatic lift uses air pressure inside a clear tube to raise and lower the car.

Across the country, an elevator for a two-story home costs $30,000 to $60,000 installed. The only way to know where your house falls in a range is a written quote, so call now to have a local dealer measure your home and price the job.

Two things drive the cost up the most:

• More floors: each floor you add past the second one costs about $9,000 to $15,000.
• Building a shaft from scratch in a house that's already standing: expect roughly $5,000 to $25,000 for that work.

Labor counts too. The median pay for electricians in Wyoming is $36.59 an hour, against $30.38 an hour nationwide. Carpenters, the folks who frame out a shaft or floor opening, make a median $27.33 an hour in Wyoming.

A single call connects you with a local dealer who can measure your home and hand you a written price.

Not the state. Wyoming has no elevator statute, no elevator code, and no office that inspects elevators. Wyoming does have a Department of Fire Prevention and Electrical Safety, but it covers only fire and electrical codes, and the plans it checks are for government and public buildings, not houses.

That puts the job with your city or county building department. It treats a home lift under whichever codes it has adopted. If your area has no building department of its own, nobody may review the job at all.

The state charges no elevator permit fee and issues no elevator permit. If your city or county has a building department, your installer will pull the permits there, both the building and the electrical ones. In Cheyenne, for instance, the Building Permitting and Licensing Division handles construction permits, plan review, and inspections inside the city limits. Permit fees differ from one place to the next.

Wyoming brought the 2024 International Codes into force on June 28, 2024, and added the 2026 National Electrical Code, both for state plan review. No residential code or standalone elevator safety code is adopted statewide. Whatever rules apply to a home elevator come from your city or county, and Cheyenne posts its own 2024 code adoptions.

Wyoming does not issue licences to people who install or service elevators. The one state credential in this area covers electrical work. Wiring an elevator system calls for an LM-E limited technician licence or higher, and the technician must be employed by a licensed low voltage or limited contractor. A limited technician needs 4,000 hours of experience.

Since the state does not oversee the elevator itself, it protects you to ask who will handle the wiring and under which licence. The dealer we connect you with will give you a straight answer on that first call.

Two Wyoming programs can help with the bill.

• WYTAP loans: run by Wyoming Assistive Technology Resources at the University of Wyoming, the Wyoming Technology Access Program lends anywhere from $500 to $40,000. It buys down your interest so the rate stays low, you can take up to 70 months to repay, and home modifications qualify.
• Medicaid DD waivers: environmental modifications, including changes that make a home easier to get around, are covered under the Supports and Comprehensive waivers. A waiver is Medicaid's way of paying for at-home care for people who meet its rules. Each family has a $20,000 lifetime cap, counted starting July 1, 2013. Requests above the cap that involve critical health or safety go to the Extraordinary Care Committee, if funds allow.

Once you have a firm price in hand, planning around help like this gets much easier: call now for a written quote to take to them.