Job Cost Engine

Interior painting cost

A CostAnswer estimated range for painting interior walls, using painter wages and named coverage rates.

Your numbers

What should interior painting 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.

Engine notes

  • Unit. Square feet of wall. The form asks for rooms and typical room size, then converts.
  • Geography. ZIP is an approximate ZIP/ZCTA match to county, not a HUD USPS crosswalk.
  • Range. Shown as a CostAnswer estimated range. Incomplete when a critical material has no sourced price.