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How Much Does Interior Painting Cost?

How much does it cost to paint a room? Price interior walls by the square foot at painter wages near you, with the paint and hours listed.

Check a contractor’s quote against the same estimate. · Square footage calculator · Home improvement loan calculator

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What should an interior painting job cost?

ZIP, the quantities you can actually measure, and a few named modifiers. The range is a CostAnswer estimate, not a market quantile.
Mapped to county with an approximate ZIP/ZCTA match, not a HUD USPS crosswalk.
roomsCount rooms of similar size. Closets can be ignored or counted as a small extra room.
sq ftLength × width of a typical room in this job. A 12×12 bedroom is 144 sq ft.

4 rooms of about 144 sq ft is about 1,306 sq ft of wall at 8 ft, after a 15% opening allowance.

By state

Where labor costs more or less for an interior painting job

These states have their own page because labor there costs noticeably more or less than the national figure. Material prices are the same everywhere.

Common questions

Questions before you call a contractor

How much does an interior painting job cost?

Put your ZIP code and the size of the job into the form on this page. It prices the labor from what that trade earns in your area (BLS), adds what employers pay on top of wages, and lists every material and piece of equipment it counts.

The result is a range for planning, not a bid. If a key material has no published price yet, the range says so instead of guessing.

What is included in the interior painting estimate?

Square feet of wall. The form asks for rooms and typical room size, then converts.

The work is priced at painting wages. The options on the form change the hours or the materials; they do not pull an average price for your city.

Why is a contractor’s quote different?

A quote prices your house: how easy it is to reach, what your permit office charges, and how busy that company is. This page prices a standard version of the job from published wages and material costs.

Paste a written bid into Check a quote to see whether it sits low, in the middle or high against the same job.

How the estimate is worked out

  • Unit. Square feet of wall. The form asks for rooms and typical room size, then converts.
  • Location. Your ZIP code is matched to a county for local wages. It is approximate: a ZIP that crosses county lines is matched to just one of them.
  • Range. A low-to-high range for planning. If a key material has no published price, the range is marked incomplete instead of guessed.