Samsung DW80B6060 Running Cost (Dishwasher)
What the Samsung DW80B6060 costs to run
ENERGY STAR certifies the Samsung DW80B6060 at 239 kWh/yr, about average for its category to run for its category.
That $45 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 dishwasher
The category average is 232 kWh/yr; this model runs 3% above it, ranking 361 of 737 dishwashers tracked here for running cost. That average is drawn from all 737 dishwashers ENERGY STAR currently certifies, not an outside number, a $1/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 Samsung DW80B6060: Samsung DW70F83YEU ($45/yr, 239 kWh/yr), then Samsung DW80B6061 ($45/yr, 239 kWh/yr).
Same brand, different models
Ranked 9 of Samsung's 22 certified dishwashers, this sits between the DW70H83YETR ($42/yr, the brand's cheapest) and the DW60R2014 ($45/yr, its priciest).
Samsung DW80B6060 over 9 years
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical dishwasher's service life at 9 years; run the Samsung DW80B6060 that long and it costs about $404 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Shopping for a new one
Efficient as certified dishwashers go, $45/year is a reasonable baseline if you're comparing what else is on the market.
Worth comparing a few current certified models before deciding.
If you're keeping it
At $45/year just to run, a dishwasher is worth protecting against an unplanned repair bill on top of that.
Where this number comes from
The full Dishwasher category page shows all 737 dishwashers ranked by cost; the state-rate guide covers the half of this number that isn't the appliance. The 239 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.