Painter ads in St. Louis: US$25.44 a click

What a booked job costs in clicks

At a lead rate of 8.05% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Home & Home Improvement) and a booking rate of 42% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, ServiceTitan, call-booking rate for trades), a booked job costs about US$752 in clicks at US$25.44 a click.

Cost per booked job in St. Louis is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The rates are national benchmarks, not St. Louis figures; the planner below starts from them and you can change both.

Each row uses the same two rates as the sentence above, so the order follows click price.

Where the painter searches are in St. Louis

Searches split by what the searcher typed. The two tags rank the groups on this page by click price; they are rankings, not verdicts.

Specific jobs are the largest share of counted search volume in St. Louis, at 65.3%.

In St. Louis, specific jobs has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at US$26.37 a click.

Plan a month of painter ads in St. Louis

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Every painter keyword tracked in St. Louis

Monthly searches are the average of the last 12 months. Related keywords are shown for context and are not counted in any total on this page.

The most-searched painter keywords in St. Louis are “interior painting” (232 searches a month at US$26.49 a click), “painters near me” (120 searches a month at US$23.15 a click), and “house painting” (27 searches a month at US$20.96 a click).

In St. Louis, “exterior house painting” is the keyword furthest from the country median: US$37.44 a click, 271.1% above the US$10.09 median click price for painter across this country's tracked cities.

In St. Louis, “commercial painters” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 8 searches a month.

In St. Louis, 7 of the 9 counted painter keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

How St. Louis compares in the United States

Over the 48 months tracked, painters searches in St. Louis peaked in May 2026 at 940 and were lowest in February 2026 at 220. St. Louis's single latest tracked month is down 51.0% on the same month a year ago and down 48.9% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In St. Louis, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "interior painting", up 239.0%.

• St. Louis is 49th of 50 United States cities by click price, among the three highest.
• St. Louis is 40th of 50 United States cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
• St. Louis is 2nd of 2 Missouri cities by click price, the highest.
• St. Louis is 2nd of 2 Missouri cities by monthly searches, the lowest.
• For this service, St. Louis sits in Missouri, which is 18th of 31 states by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table (an average of 1.2 businesses per 10,000 people across Missouri).
• St. Louis's 16.3 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 22.5 for this service.
• St. Louis's median painter click price of US$25.44 is 152.1% above the country median of US$10.09.
• Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 7.2% on the 12 months before.
• In St. Louis, searches peak in April, about 38.9% above the monthly average, and are lowest in December.

Painter businesses in St. Louis

The US Census Bureau counts 336 businesses in this industry in St. Louis, MO-IL (2023), about 1.2 for every 10,000 people.

What is counted: employer establishments.

Counts cover businesses with employees; most sole traders are not included.

Population: 2,814,421 (St. Louis, MO-IL). Source: US Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP), MSA/micropolitan estimates, vintage 2023.

Business counts are never compared across countries on this site: each country's statistics agency counts a different set of businesses.

Painter click prices in 6 countries

United States is 6th of 6 countries by median painter click price (lowest first), all in US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

Medians across each country's tracked cities, same pull month. Each country uses its own keyword set and its own name for the service. Only click prices and searches are compared across borders; business counts are not.

Rules for painters in the United States

Licensing is set by each state.

Questions people ask about painter ads in St. Louis

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Data and sources

Search data pulled October 13, 2026. Google Keyword Planner estimates via DataForSEO, not what you will pay at auction; your own Google Ads account shows your real price.