Cost to run an air fryer in Washington (August 2026 rates)
At 14.63¢ per kilowatt-hour — Washington's average residential price in August 2026 — running an air fryer costs $18.43 a year. That is 19% less than the national average of $22.88. Washington's residential rate is up 7.2% from August 2025, which moves this appliance from $17.20 to $18.43 a year.
- Per hour
- 15.4¢
- Per day of use
- 6.1¢
- Per month
- $1.54
- Per year
- $18.43
Assumption: 1,500 W at a 70% duty cycle, 24 minutes a day, 300 days a year — 126 kWh a year. A 5-quart basket model, roughly 25 minutes of cooking a day. Use the calculator to swap in the numbers from your own model.
How Washington compares
Washington pays 14.63¢/kWh, the 12th cheapest residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to $4.45 less a year than the typical U.S. household pays for the same use. Running the same air fryer costs $16.03 a year in Nevada and $59.45 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $43.42 a year.
| State | Rate | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 14.43¢ | $1.52 | $18.18 |
| Wyoming | 14.43¢ | $1.52 | $18.18 |
| Washington | 14.63¢ | $1.54 | $18.43 |
| Oklahoma | 14.82¢ | $1.56 | $18.67 |
| North Carolina | 14.95¢ | $1.57 | $18.84 |
States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for an air fryer.
What else costs about the same in Washington
Cutting the number down
- The saving is not the wattage, it is the volume: a small cavity reaches temperature in two minutes instead of twelve.
- Cooking two batches back to back skips the second preheat entirely.
Questions
- How much does an air fryer cost per month in Washington?
- About $1.54 a month, assuming 1,500 W at a 70% duty cycle, 24 minutes a day, 300 days a year at 14.63¢/kWh.
- How many kilowatt-hours does an air fryer use?
- Roughly 126 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 1.05 kWh for every hour it runs.
- Is that expensive compared with other states?
- Washington has the 12th cheapest average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $22.88 a year.