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Cost to run a rice cooker in Mississippi (August 2026 rates)
At 14.43¢ per kilowatt-hour — Mississippi's average residential price in August 2026 — running a rice cooker costs $6.06 a year. That is 21% less than the national average of $7.63. Mississippi's residential rate is up 6.0% from August 2025, which moves this appliance from $5.72 to $6.06 a year.
- Per hour
- 4.0¢
- Per day of use
- 3.0¢
- Per month
- 50.5¢
- Per year
- $6.06
Assumption: 700 W at a 40% duty cycle, 45 minutes a day, 200 days a year — 42 kWh a year. Full draw while heating, then a low-power keep-warm hold. Use the calculator to swap in the numbers from your own model.
How Mississippi compares
Mississippi pays 14.43¢/kWh, the 10th cheapest residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to $1.57 less a year than the typical U.S. household pays for the same use. Running the same rice cooker costs $5.34 a year in Nevada and $19.82 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $14.47 a year.
| State | Rate | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 13.80¢ | 48.3¢ | $5.80 |
| Arkansas | 14.37¢ | 50.3¢ | $6.04 |
| Mississippi | 14.43¢ | 50.5¢ | $6.06 |
| Wyoming | 14.43¢ | 50.5¢ | $6.06 |
| Washington | 14.63¢ | 51.2¢ | $6.14 |
States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for a rice cooker.
What else costs about the same in Mississippi
Cutting the number down
- Keep-warm is a small draw that runs for hours. Switching it off once the rice is done is the only real lever here.
Questions
- How much does a rice cooker cost per month in Mississippi?
- About 50.5¢ a month, assuming 700 W at a 40% duty cycle, 45 minutes a day, 200 days a year at 14.43¢/kWh.
- How many kilowatt-hours does a rice cooker use?
- Roughly 42 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 0.28 kWh for every hour it runs.
- Is that expensive compared with other states?
- Mississippi has the 10th cheapest average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $7.63 a year.