Casper

City of Casper, Community Development Department — Building Inspection Division

In short

City of Casper, Community Development Department — Building Inspection Division issues 3 permits we publish for Casper, last verified 2026-09-14. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.

What this agency issues

Permits required, with issuing agency, fee, renewal term and the date each record was last verified against its source
Permit	Issuing agency	Fee	Renews	Last checked
Contractor License (City of Casper; the Wyoming SOS refers general contractors to local jurisdictions)	City of Casper, Community Development Department — Building Inspection Division	General and sub contractor classes, new and renewal: Class I $300.00 and $150.00; Classes IIA, IIB, III and IV $150.00 and $75.00 each; concrete contractor flatwork $125.00 and $62.50; concrete contractor general, demolition, framing, insulation, mobile home and roofing contractors $150.00 and $75.00 each; drywall contractor $125.00 and $62.50; and mobile home installer $15.00 and $15.00. Concrete, drywall, framing and insulation licenses are currently marked not offered. Plumbing, mechanical and individual licenses: mechanical or plumbing contractor $300.00 and $150.00; mechanical or plumbing master $75.00 and $37.50; journeyman $25.00 and $15.00; apprentice $3.00 and $3.00; gas utility contractor $150.00 and $75.00 with an installer at $25.00 and $15.00; sanitary sewer cleaning contractor, utility contractor and water conditioning contractor $150.00 and $75.00 each, with a utility installer at $25.00 and $15.00.	all licenses expire on the last day of each year, with a thirty-day grace period following the renewal date; licenses are not transferable between persons	2026-09-14
Building Permit	City of Casper, Community Development Department — Building Inspection Division	The Combined Building, Electrical, Plumbing and Mechanical Permit Fee Schedule prices every project by total valuation in narrow bands: $70.00 at $1.00 to $1,000.00, $95.00 at $2,000.00, $184.00 at $10,000.00, $298.00 at $20,000.00, $353.00 at $25,000.00, $568.00 at $50,000.00, $729.00 at $80,000.00 and $841.00 at $100,000.00. Above $100,000.00 the schedule states a single formula: $806.00 for the first $100,000.00 plus $5.60 for each additional $1,000.00, or fraction thereof. A plan check fee is layered on top: 65% of the building permit fee on any multi-family, commercial or industrial valuation exceeding $25,000.00, or a flat $280.00 on any new one- or two-family residential building regardless of valuation. Starting work before a complete application is reviewed and approved doubles the building permit fee. Two irregularities in the City's own published table are disclosed rather than silently corrected: the $25,001.00–$26,000.00 bracket is priced at $326.00, lower than the $353.00 charged for the $24,001.00–$25,000.00 bracket immediately below it, before the trend resumes upward at $370.00 for $26,001.00–$27,000.00; and the $50,000.00 valuation appears as the closing figure of one bracket and the opening figure of the next. Related flat fees on the same schedule: a residential demolition permit is $200.00 and a commercial demolition permit $300.00, each plus an erosion control permit if applicable; an erosion control permit is $50.00 per acre plus bond or surety; a code compliance inspection is $75.00 residential or $150.00 commercial; a re-inspection is $75.00; research is $50.00 per hour; and an initial building permit, a sewer permit and a water permit are each $35.00.	a permit is good for 180 days once issued	2026-09-14
Certificate of Occupancy (required; no fee line in the published schedule)	City of Casper, Community Development Department — Building Inspection Division	No fee	one-time, issued on completion	2026-09-14

Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.

About each permit

Contractor License (City of Casper; the Wyoming SOS refers general contractors to local jurisdictions)

The class structure is experience-gated rather than purely scope-based, which is unusual and worth recording. Class I 'authorizes the contractor to construct, repair, or alter any structure' and requires a minimum of eight years of experience plus the International Code Council G12-N examination or equivalent. Class IIA covers 'all residential and commercial structures up to twelve thousand square feet of total area within the building footprint' on six years' experience; Class IIB covers residential up to and including apartment buildings of four dwelling units, also six years; Class III covers repair, remodel or alteration of single-family residences 'up to twenty five percent of the total square footage' on four years; and Class IV is a maintenance and repair class on two years. Insurance minimums under §15.12.140 are $250,000 for public liability or personal injury or death of one person from one incident, $500,000 for all persons from one incident and $250,000 for property damage. No bond is required by Chapter 15.12, which distinguishes Casper from Gillette. Electrical work remains state-licensed — §15.12.050 conditions issuance on approval by the State Electrical Licensing Board.

Building Permit

The operative February 2, 2026 Current Fee Schedule is a scanned, image-only PDF with no text layer; every figure above is read from its four pages. The formula above $100,000.00 and the two plan-check rates are identical, dollar for dollar, to what Resolution No. 17-220 set in 2018, which is worth noting: nearly eight years on, Casper's building-fee structure has not changed, only been re-issued with a new date stamp. The two bracket irregularities disclosed in the formula are genuine defects in the City's own document, as printed — a business valued at $25,500 should confirm with Building Inspection whether $326.00 or $353.00 governs before relying on either. One code inconsistency is also recorded: §15.04.040 adopts the 2021 International Building Code while §15.04.050's amendments reference the 2024 Edition.

Certificate of Occupancy (required; no fee line in the published schedule)

The requirement is unambiguous and current — §15.04.090 bars use, occupancy and any change in occupancy classification until the building official issues the certificate. No fee is stated here because none is published: the February 2, 2026 Current Fee Schedule carries no certificate-of-occupancy line in either the building-permit table or the planning fee table, and Resolution 17-220 from 2018 carried none either. The consistency between the two documents across eight years is some evidence the omission is deliberate — the certificate may be treated as covered by the building permit fee — but no provision says so expressly, so no fee figure is stated here.

Contact

Jurisdiction: Casper
Phone: (307) 235-8254
Website: www.casperwy.gov/services/building_and_inspections/permit_requirements.php

Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.

Sources

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