The guy you want is very busy right now; expect to wait a month or more. Don't insult him with other bids please; consider yourself lucky to get on his list.

1k - 25k there is no way to answer this question. Pricing is very regional , finish choices are all over the map . Get 3 quotes and pick one.

Thank you, I now have a better understanding.

I’ve had 4 bathrooms rebuilt including 2 showers. I’m guessing if this 4x6 shower were built in my house, in a major city in the South, with a relatively low-cost of labor, where there are no inspections and a lot of untrained people who pretend to be tile pros but aren’t:

1). Built by a hack pretending to know how to waterproof: About $3,000-4,000. You will get questionable waterproofing, probably a poor or average tile installation. But it’ll be a shower. This price does not include the tile or the glass enclosure.

2). Built by a trained, certified, experienced tile professional who takes pride: About $15,000-$16,000. You will get an up to date professionally waterproofed shower using the tile pro’s preferred method such as Laticrete, etc, (probably not the water-in, water-our method), well thought-out tile layout design using math and careful planning, (for me that price included the factory-coated frameless glass enclosure installed by tile pro’s preferred local glass shop). That price did not include the tile.

In addition to the resource live wire oak posted, you can go on

https://www.tile-assn.com/?

Click on Home and the Find s Member, and search your area for a tile pro.