How much does an electric clothes dryer cost per month in Missouri?

About $10.41 a month, assuming 3.00 kWh per cycle, 5 cycles a week at 16.02¢/kWh.

How many kilowatt-hours does an electric clothes dryer use?

Roughly 780 kWh a year under these assumptions.

Is that expensive compared with other states?

Missouri has the 24th cheapest average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $142 a year.

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Cost to run an electric clothes dryer in Missouri (August 2026 rates)

At 16.02¢ per kilowatt-hour — Missouri's average residential price in August 2026 — running an electric clothes dryer costs $125 a year. That is 12% less than the national average of $142. Missouri's residential rate is up 4.6% from August 2025, which moves this appliance from $119 to $125 a year.

Per cycle: 48.1¢
Per day: 34.2¢
Per month: $10.41
Per year: $125

Assumption: 3.00 kWh per cycle, 5 cycles a week — 780 kWh a year. A standard vented electric dryer. Heat-pump dryers use roughly half this per load. Use the calculator to swap in the numbers from your own model.

How Missouri compares

Missouri pays 16.02¢/kWh, the 24th cheapest residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to $16.69 less a year than the typical U.S. household pays for the same use. Running the same electric clothes dryer costs $99.22 a year in Nevada and $368 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $269 a year.

State	Rate	Per month	Per year
Texas	15.91¢	$10.34	$124
Oregon	15.92¢	$10.35	$124
Missouri	16.02¢	$10.41	$125
West Virginia	16.31¢	$10.60	$127
Alabama	16.33¢	$10.61	$127

States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for an electric clothes dryer.

What else costs about the same in Missouri

Portable air conditioner$135 a year in MO Space heater$138 a year in MO Window air conditioner$111 a year in MO

Cutting the number down

The spin speed of the washer sets the dryer's workload. A faster final spin removes water mechanically instead of thermally, which is far cheaper.
A blocked lint screen or crushed vent hose makes every load run longer at full heat.
Back-to-back loads reuse a drum that is already hot.

Questions

How much does an electric clothes dryer cost per month in Missouri?: About $10.41 a month, assuming 3.00 kWh per cycle, 5 cycles a week at 16.02¢/kWh.
How many kilowatt-hours does an electric clothes dryer use?: Roughly 780 kWh a year under these assumptions.
Is that expensive compared with other states?: Missouri has the 24th cheapest average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $142 a year.