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This paper outlines a procedure to support selection of repair strategies for damaged structures after an earthquake. Under strong shaking, modern, code-compliant, bridges can sustain significant damage to their ductile members, and failure of sacrificial members. However, there are many choices of repair strategies, and no clear guidance on their selection. This paper proposes a seismic performance assessment framework to determine repair costs for reinforced concrete bridges, considering costs associated with both the initial repair and future expected seismic repairs (which are based on the performance of the repaired bridge). For initial repair, the paper considers several common column repair techniques, which are separately evaluated in terms of direct costs. For future expected repairs, the paper proposes a method to evaluate the effect of each of the repair strategies on a repaired bridge's post-repair future seismic performance to quantify the expected repair costs associated with each strategy over the remaining service life of the bridge. The