Paint Quality
Premium Brand
Mid Brand
Economy Brand

The PAINT category is linked to constants, equations, calculators and datasets associates with paint. 

Paint Cost Survey

One should use local pricing for paint or primer since prices may vary and may include local discounts.  However, the following prices are recent U.S. dollar costs for different price ranges of one gallon of paint and primer in the United States:

• Paint Pricing Survey date: 1/30/25
• Paint Price Survey Source (online): Menards
  • Price of premium (high quality) paint: $118.0 USD
  • Price of medium grade paint: $50.98 USD
  • Price of economy paint: $15.99 USD
  • Price of primer: $14.98 USD

vCalc performs a periodic survey of pricing in some local stores and using nationally advertised pricing available on retail store web sites.