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Cost to run a rice cooker in Arkansas (July 2026 rates)
At 14.33¢ per kilowatt-hour — Arkansas's average residential price in July 2026 — running a rice cooker costs $6.02 a year. That is 22% less than the national average of $7.69. Arkansas's residential rate is up 8.1% from July 2025, which moves this appliance from $5.57 to $6.02 a year.
- Per hour
- 4.0¢
- Per day of use
- 3.0¢
- Per month
- 50.2¢
- Per year
- $6.02
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 Arkansas compares
Arkansas pays 14.33¢/kWh, the 9th cheapest residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to $1.67 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 Louisiana and $20.16 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $14.82 a year.
| State | Rate | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska | 13.78¢ | 48.2¢ | $5.79 |
| Kentucky | 13.81¢ | 48.3¢ | $5.80 |
| Arkansas | 14.33¢ | 50.2¢ | $6.02 |
| Oklahoma | 14.35¢ | 50.2¢ | $6.03 |
| Wyoming | 14.36¢ | 50.3¢ | $6.03 |
States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for a rice cooker.
What else costs about the same in Arkansas
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 Arkansas?
- About 50.2¢ a month, assuming 700 W at a 40% duty cycle, 45 minutes a day, 200 days a year at 14.33¢/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?
- Arkansas has the 9th cheapest average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $7.69 a year.