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"Costs vary in different regions. The South seems to have the lowest costs - at least based on what I read when spending a lot of time on houszz.com when I was doing a gut remodel including a master and guest bath. \n \n\n\n\tLabor drives costs significantly as well as jurisdictions having more stringent permits. My bathrooms had to be inspected three times including the 24 hour flood test for the shower.\n \n\n\n\tBathrooms are probably the most expensive room on a square foot basis in a home. Building a tile shower is incredibly expensive because it requires skilled labor to make it waterproof and a skilled tile layer so it doesn't look like a POS. So many threads on houzz.com of people who got disastrous tile jobs which then had to be redone completely. Also licensed plumbers and electricians are not cheap and bathrooms obviously need that form of skilled labor. When I remodeled, the actual labor costs were high and although I did choose higher end fixtures, that wasn't as much of a significant factor as the actual labor costs for skilled labor. Of course, there are certain choices that are cheaper because they require less labor and not such skilled labor such as installing a prefab acrylic tub shower type of thing. When I watch House Hunters (another guilty pleasure) one can judge the cut corners of many of the new or remodeled homes by whether the tubs and showers are the most inexpensive type of acrylic rather than being tiled.\n "
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