About this site

ExterminatorCost.com is an independent price-research project with one job: tell you what exterminators actually charge — by pest, by treatment type, and by state — before a salesperson is standing in your kitchen.

Why it exists

Pest control pricing is unusually opaque. In our own survey of 588 licensed companies’ websites, only about 3% published any price at all. The industry standard is the “free inspection” — which is a sales appointment. Most cost articles online recycle the same two databases without saying so, and almost none adjust for where you live.

What we do differently

• Ranges with sources. Every figure traces to a named national guide, a federal dataset, or a real published quote from our own survey — see the methodology.
• State-level math. Prices are adjusted with BLS industry wages and BEA regional price parities for all 50 states and DC, not a hand-wavy “prices may vary.”
• A calculator that matches the tables. The cost calculator runs on the same data file as every table on the site.
• Scam-pattern coverage. Each guide flags the sales tactics we found while researching: free-inspection upsells, evergreen contracts, and inflated add-on repairs.

What we are not

We are not a pest control company and we don’t sell leads to one today. If that ever changes, it will be labeled clearly on the page. Estimates here are for budgeting — your real price always follows an inspection.

Questions or corrections: contact us.