Running cost for the Marathon MVD420W
At 317 kWh/yr, the Marathon MVD420W's ENERGY STAR certification puts it one of the cheaper models in its category to run against every other certified clothes dryer.
That $60 is priced at 18.8¢/kWh, the average of all 51 state rates this site tracks. Your own state's rate is one click away.
How the Marathon MVD420W compares to other clothes dryers
Against the category average of 572 kWh/yr, this model uses 44.6% less, ranking 89 of 639 clothes dryers tracked here for running cost. 639 certified clothes dryers, one average, about $48/year of daylight between it and this model; the full methodology has the rest.
Neighbouring models
Right next to the Marathon MVD420W on that list: Magic Chef MCSDRY24W1 ($60/yr, 317 kWh/yr) runs slightly less, while Summit LDES248 ($60/yr, 317 kWh/yr) runs slightly more.
Within the Marathon lineup
The Marathon MVD420W is the only clothes dryer from Marathon that ENERGY STAR currently certifies, so there's no same-brand model to weigh it against here, only the full clothes dryer category.
What this adds up to over time
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical clothes dryer's service life at 12 years; run the Marathon MVD420W that long and it costs about $715 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Shopping for a new one
Efficient as certified clothes dryers go, $60/year is a reasonable baseline if you're comparing what else is on the market.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified clothes dryers before buying.
If you're keeping it
The Marathon MVD420W already costs $60/year to run; a repair bill on top of that is the kind of expense a protection plan exists to smooth out.
How this was checked
Ranked 89 of 639 certified dryers for running cost, the Marathon MVD420W is also worth reading with a caveat specific to this category: the methodology page explains why ENERGY STAR's own combined-energy figure for dryers can overstate the electric bill impact of a gas model. The 317 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.