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Cost to run a rice cooker in Wisconsin (August 2026 rates)
At 19.41¢ per kilowatt-hour — Wisconsin's average residential price in August 2026 — running a rice cooker costs $8.15 a year. That is 7% more than the national average of $7.63. Wisconsin's residential rate is up 5.3% from August 2025, which moves this appliance from $7.74 to $8.15 a year.
- Per hour
- 5.4¢
- Per day of use
- 4.1¢
- Per month
- 67.9¢
- Per year
- $8.15
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 Wisconsin compares
Wisconsin pays 19.41¢/kWh, the 16th most expensive residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to 52.5¢ more 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 19.32¢ | 67.6¢ | $8.11 |
| Ohio | 19.38¢ | 67.8¢ | $8.14 |
| Wisconsin | 19.41¢ | 67.9¢ | $8.15 |
| Maryland | 21.40¢ | 74.9¢ | $8.99 |
| Pennsylvania | 21.77¢ | 76.2¢ | $9.14 |
States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for a rice cooker.
What else costs about the same in Wisconsin
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 Wisconsin?
- About 67.9¢ a month, assuming 700 W at a 40% duty cycle, 45 minutes a day, 200 days a year at 19.41¢/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?
- Wisconsin has the 16th most expensive average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs more here than the U.S. average of $7.63 a year.