Georgia Cost GuideHow much does an electrical panel upgrade cost in Georgia?
Panel upgrade in Georgia: typically $2,050 to $2,750+, the middle half of the figures posted by 10 Georgia electricians, collected September 2026.
Upgrading the main panel is one of the larger home electrical jobs. This is the range Georgia electricians publish for it, and how to tell whether you need a bigger panel or a bigger service.
What an electrical panel upgrade costs in Georgia
We checked 663 Georgia electrician websites.
Electrical panel upgrade cost
$2,050 to $2,750+
Prices from 10 Georgia electricians
This is a typical range, not a quote. The sections below explain what moves the price for this job. The dot marks the middle price, and a + means some businesses charge more.
What the job involves
A panel upgrade swaps the main electrical panel for a newer one, usually with more circuit spaces and often a higher rating. A higher-rated panel lets the house use more power only if the wires and meter feeding it can carry more, and changing those is the work of a service upgrade.
Many electricians say upgrade when the new panel is bigger or higher rated, and replacement when it simply takes over from a worn one. A 200 amp service upgrade goes further and also changes the meter base and the wires coming into the house.
What's usually included
- Mounting the new panel and moving each circuit to it
- Installing breakers and labeling every circuit
- Connecting the grounding and testing the circuits
What moves the price
- What the upgrade is for
- Adding spaces for more circuits is the simpler case. Getting ready for an EV charger, a heat pump or a hot tub can take more power than your service brings in, which can turn the job into a service upgrade with a higher price.
- Breakers included or extra
- Some quotes include every breaker the new panel needs, and others cover the panel and the main breaker and bill the rest separately.
- Add-ons at the same time
- Whole-house surge protection is often offered while the panel is open, and some homeowners add a place to connect a generator. Each is its own line on the quote.
- Wall around the panel
- A larger panel may not fit the opening in the wall where the old one sat. Cutting the opening bigger and patching it adds work.
Getting a quote
Questions to ask each electrician before you compare prices:
- What size is the new panel, how many circuit spaces does it have, and why did you choose it?
- Does the price include every breaker I need, or only some?
- Does this job change anything outside the panel, such as the meter base or the wires from the utility?
- Who contacts the power company, and who handles the inspection?
- Are surge protection or a generator connection in this price, or offered as extras?
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Where this number comes from
We collect these prices with our own crawler, which reads the public websites of Georgia electricians and follows each site's robots.txt rules. It has read 663 of their websites so far. Each range is the middle half of the prices those businesses post, collected September 2026.
A price list is what a business says it charges; a cost guide is a business's own estimate of what the job usually runs in Georgia. We never name the businesses behind a range. How we collect and check electrician prices.
| Job | Businesses that post a price |
|---|---|
| Panel upgrade | 10 (all cost guides) |
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