How much does a rice cooker cost per month in Vermont?

About 85.5¢ a month, assuming 700 W at a 40% duty cycle, 45 minutes a day, 200 days a year at 24.44¢/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?

Vermont has the 10th most expensive average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs more here than the U.S. average of $7.70 a year.

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Cost to run a rice cooker in Vermont (June 2026 rates)

At 24.44¢ per kilowatt-hour — Vermont's average residential price in June 2026 — running a rice cooker costs $10.26 a year. That is 33% more than the national average of $7.70. Vermont's residential rate is up 6.3% from June 2025, which moves this appliance from $9.66 to $10.26 a year.

Per hour: 6.8¢
Per day of use: 5.1¢
Per month: 85.5¢
Per year: $10.26

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 Vermont compares

Vermont pays 24.44¢/kWh, the 10th most expensive residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to $2.56 more a year than the typical U.S. household pays for the same use. Running the same rice cooker costs $5.51 a year in Nevada and $22.14 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $16.64 a year.

State	Rate	Per month	Per year
Connecticut	24.32¢	85.1¢	$10.21
District of Columbia	24.39¢	85.4¢	$10.24
Vermont	24.44¢	85.5¢	$10.26
New Jersey	24.95¢	87.3¢	$10.48
New Hampshire	27.01¢	94.5¢	$11.34

States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for a rice cooker.

What else costs about the same in Vermont

Electric pressure cooker$10.26 a year in VT Electric lawn mower$10.17 a year in VT Security camera$10.70 a year in VT

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 Vermont?: About 85.5¢ a month, assuming 700 W at a 40% duty cycle, 45 minutes a day, 200 days a year at 24.44¢/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?: Vermont has the 10th most expensive average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs more here than the U.S. average of $7.70 a year.