How much does an LED bulb cost per month in Maryland?

About 29.3¢ a month, assuming 9 W, 5 hours a day, 365 days a year at 21.40¢/kWh.

How many kilowatt-hours does an LED bulb use?

Roughly 16 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 0.01 kWh for every hour it runs.

Is that expensive compared with other states?

Maryland has the 15th most expensive average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs more here than the U.S. average of $2.98 a year.

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Cost to run an LED bulb in Maryland (August 2026 rates)

At 21.40¢ per kilowatt-hour — Maryland's average residential price in August 2026 — running an LED bulb costs $3.51 a year. That is 18% more than the national average of $2.98. Maryland's residential rate is up 7.6% from August 2025, which moves this appliance from $3.27 to $3.51 a year.

Per hour: 0.2¢
Per day of use: 1.0¢
Per month: 29.3¢
Per year: $3.51

Assumption: 9 W, 5 hours a day, 365 days a year — 16 kWh a year. A 9 W LED producing about 800 lumens, the equivalent of an old 60 W incandescent. Use the calculator to swap in the numbers from your own model.

How Maryland compares

Maryland pays 21.40¢/kWh, the 15th most expensive residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to 53.2¢ more a year than the typical U.S. household pays for the same use. Running the same LED bulb costs $2.09 a year in Nevada and $7.75 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $5.66 a year.

State	Rate	Per month	Per year
Ohio	19.38¢	26.5¢	$3.18
Wisconsin	19.41¢	26.6¢	$3.19
Maryland	21.40¢	29.3¢	$3.51
Pennsylvania	21.77¢	29.8¢	$3.58
Michigan	22.99¢	31.5¢	$3.78

States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for an LED bulb.

What else costs about the same in Maryland

Clothes iron$3.53 a year in MD String of christmas lights$1.44 a year in MD Smart speaker$5.62 a year in MD

Cutting the number down

Per bulb the cost is trivial; a house has 40 of them, and that is the number that matters.
Dimming an LED does cut power draw, though not perfectly in proportion to the light output.

Questions

How much does an LED bulb cost per month in Maryland?: About 29.3¢ a month, assuming 9 W, 5 hours a day, 365 days a year at 21.40¢/kWh.
How many kilowatt-hours does an LED bulb use?: Roughly 16 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 0.01 kWh for every hour it runs.
Is that expensive compared with other states?: Maryland has the 15th most expensive average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs more here than the U.S. average of $2.98 a year.