What the Whirlpool YWFH5424S** costs to run
At 317 kWh/yr, the Whirlpool YWFH5424S**'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.
Efficient, or not, for a clothes dryer
Against the category average of 572 kWh/yr, this model uses 44.6% less, ranking 96 of 639 clothes dryers tracked here for running cost. That average is drawn from all 639 clothes dryers ENERGY STAR currently certifies, not an outside number, a $48/year gap from this model at the national rate. Full sourcing is in the sourcing notes.
Right next to it on the list
A rank or two either side of the Whirlpool YWFH5424S**: Whirlpool WFH5424S** ($60/yr, 317 kWh/yr), then LG WM6998H*A ($71/yr, 380 kWh/yr).
Comparing Whirlpool's own models
Ranked 8 of Whirlpool's 114 certified clothes dryers, this sits between the WHD3090G** ($43/yr, the brand's cheapest) and the WGF5727T** ($129/yr, its priciest).
Whirlpool YWFH5424S** over 12 years
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical clothes dryer's service life at 12 years; run the Whirlpool YWFH5424S** that long and it costs about $715 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Weighing a replacement
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
Whether or not the Whirlpool YWFH5424S** ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a clothes dryer, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
Where this number comes from
Two sourced numbers, nothing modeled: ENERGY STAR's certified kWh/yr for this exact model, and EIA's published state electricity rate. Ranked 96 of 639 certified dryers for running cost, the Whirlpool YWFH5424S** 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.