Adducta

What Google Ads cost

Google Ads for house painters: what a click costs

In the United States, the searches people make for a house painter add up to about 35,000 a month, and advertisers bid $7.24 to $32.61 to show at the top of Google for them. Here is what that means for a budget, country by country, and how to spend less of it on searches that never become a client.

From Google Keyword Planner, read by Adducta Collected 5 October 2026

The short version

01What a click costs, country by country

The range advertisers bid to show at the top of Google, Google's 20th to 80th percentile, for the searches below, in each country's own currency. A click usually costs less than the high end.

CountrySearches a monthTop of page, lowTop of page, high
United States35,000$7.24$32.61
Canada1,930CA$4.61CA$20.94
Australia1,570A$6.04A$23.48
New Zealand650NZ$7.35NZ$24.44

02What customers type, and what to block

Google measured the three searches a customer of a house painter types when ready to hire:

house painters · painting contractor · interior painter

Searches with these words in them cost the same and rarely become a client, so block them from the first day:

painter jobs · painter salary · paint colors · paint store · how to paint · DIY

03What a budget buys

In the United States, at $7.24 to $32.61 a click, and if 5 in a hundred clicks become an enquiry:

BudgetA monthClicks a monthEnquiries a month
$10 a day$3049 to 42under 1 to 2
$30 a day$91228 to 1261 to 6
$100 a day$3,04093 to 4205 to 21
$300 a day$9,120280 to 1,26014 to 63

Put in your own budget, country and enquiry rate in the Google Ads cost calculator.

04What works for house painters

A good enquiry: a homeowner in your area who wants rooms or a whole house painted, inside or out, and is ready for a quote.

05Questions

How much does Google Ads cost for house painters?

In the United States, advertisers bid $7.24 to $32.61 for a click at the top of Google on the searches people make for a house painter, in October 2026. Elsewhere: CA$4.61 to CA$20.94 in Canada, A$6.04 to A$23.48 in Australia and NZ$7.35 to NZ$24.44 in New Zealand. A click usually costs less than the high end.

How much should a house painter spend on Google Ads?

It depends on how many new clients a month you can take and what one is worth. As a yardstick, a hundred clicks a month at the top of the range costs about $3,261 in the United States; if 5 in a hundred become enquiries, that is about 5 enquiries. Adducta's free plan works it out for your area and budget, and says if the budget is too thin.

What should a lead cost a house painter?

If 5 in a hundred clicks become an enquiry, about $145 to $652 an enquiry at the top-of-page range in the United States. Blocking the wrong searches, and a landing page that answers the first question, move it toward the low end.

Which searches should house painters block?

Searches with these words in them cost the same and rarely become a client: painter jobs, painter salary, paint colors, paint store, how to paint and DIY. Adducta's plan lists the searches to block before anything is spent, and the agent adds to the list every day from the searches that come in.

06Let an agent run it

Adducta's agent writes the plan for a house painter's ads from six questions: the searches to buy and block, what the ads say, and what a lead should cost in your area. Write my plan is free, needs no account and no card, and nothing is spent until you approve it.

Google runs today. Facebook and Instagram open in the coming weeks, and ads inside AI assistants and on TikTok come after that; leave your details to be first in line.

07What Google Ads cost other businesses