What Does a Residential EMF Testing Assessment and Remediation Consultation Cost?

As of April 2025, the average national rate for a residential EMF home testing panel by a certified EMRS has risen from $300 to $575 per hour, plus local travel costs of $100 - $225 per hour, depending on the travel time and your part of the country. For a one to two-thousand-square-foot home, you can expect to pay between $825 and $2,875 for the assessment. For a 2,000 square foot home, most EMRSs would require three to five hours, depending on the number of actionable issues they find that need to be properly documented. The time to write the report depends on the particular template used, the amount of time to analyze the data, document the actionable findings, and write up the next steps for remediation.

As in any other profession, there will constantly be varying degrees of professional competency due to each person’s evolutionary process, knowledge, creativity, experience, intuitive investigative abilities, tenacity, and depth of understanding of the scientific method.)

We have all seen that across all professions, but especially with EMF Testing and Consulting, an “expert’s” years of experience do not always translate to excellence or the minimum level of competency. Try to hire a certified EMRS, Electromagnetic Radiation Specialist, or an Electrical Engineer with a background in Electromagnetic Radiation.

Some Residential EMF Consultants charge a flat fee, others set an hourly rate that reflects the going rate of their local electricians, and some charge by the home's square footage. (Hint: Anyone charging a rate commensurate with your local electrician will probably not provide a professional assessment, and a company that does not use ISO-17025-certified, calibrated equipment is also coming up somewhat short. - Anyone can purchase a manufacturer-calibrated meter on Amazon and build a website.)

Like most niche professions, the fee structure for this industry has evolved. The fee for each EMRS or any other EMF Consultant is what the market will bear for that individual. Just like doctors, some are better than others. Each company’s fee essentially comes down to their business cost, client demand, and schedule availability.

This fee typically includes a minimum testing of the AC Magnetic Fields, AC Electric Fields, Radio Frequency Power Densities, and Dirty Electricity with a plug-in broadband EMI meter or an oscilloscope.

Depending on the cost of living in your area, a technician will charge a minimum of $350-$950, plus travel, to come to your home to test for a single issue, such as emissions from a transmission line, substation, RF cellphone tower emission, or dirty electricity.

(Please note: There are only a handful of companies in the USA, such as Elexana, that can inspect and test the entire residential grounding system and electrical power system, identify specific wiring issues, identify NEC code violations, and detect nuclear radiation. We may be the only company to conduct thorough testing and analysis of three-phase systems.)

Note: Beware of the low-ball expert quote from someone not using an ISO-17025 certified-calibrated meter who then tries to convince you that you need expensive mitigation such as RF paint, magnetic shielding, “dirty electricity” filters, etc. Some price themselves below market value to get their foot in the door, and then make their money from talking you into mitigation you don’t need, like Y-shield paint or magnetic shielding, when it is the wrong call, to bankroll thousands in commissions. Others will lowball the market, go in with inferior equipment, rush through your home, and tell you everything “looks good.”

With life experience, we eventually learn that to truly “understand” a topic is to ask the right questions. When it comes to EMF Testing cost, the best first question is, “What will you receive for your hard-earned money? And then ask, what will the EMF assessment cost.

The very first edition of this article was posted in September 2018. I intended to develop a national standard fee structure and also provide the general public with expectations of what they would pay and what level of service they should expect. This effort stems from the vast discrepancies between EMF consulting companies in their costs and competencies operating within the New York Tri-State area, where I reside and work.

Today, the closest to finding a technician with a homogeneous skill set in EMF testing and consulting skills is for you to hire a certified Building Biology® Institute Professional Electromagnetic Radiation Specialist, EMRS. However, even within this group, there is a wide range of competencies, as in any other profession. (The Institute has attempted to address this discrepancy by holding monthly Zoom meetings to share knowledge and techniques.) But, alas, as in any other profession, there will constantly be varying degrees of professional competency due to each person’s specific evolutionary process, knowledge, creativity, experience, intuitive investigative abilities, tenacity, talent, and understanding of the scientific method.)

Like most niche professions, the fee structure has evolved. The fee for each EMRS or any other EMF Consultant is what the market will bear for that individual. Each person’s fee essentially comes down to their business cost, demand, and availability.

No two EMF Service companies are the same. Knowledge, experience, thoroughness, level of care, talent, and equipment are all distinguishing factors. A doctor goes to medical school, does an internship, and sets up a practice. We all know that there are good doctors and there are poor ones. If you hire an EMRS or a certified Professional Electromagnetic Radiation Specialist, you will at least be in the ballpark to receive a competent assessment.

An EMF Testing & Consulting Company can provide a price quote for your residential EMF on-site services in several ways. Some companies use square-footage metrics, such as the number of rooms and floors, type of dwelling (apartment vs. a stand-alone house), hourly rate, or any variation.

To estimate the scope of work:

The number of rooms in the home, the number of bedrooms, and workstations.
The home's square footage and the property's size are often factors.
The number of different types of EMF tests

(If you plan to fly an EMRS to your city or country, there are essential additions to cost, such as airline travel, car service, the estimated total hours of travel time, local hotel charges, and GSA meal per diem.

It would help if you had a checklist of the EMF tests that will be conducted. Someone telling you they test “everything” is not a good answer. At Elexana, we promise a thorough EMF assessment. Here is what you can expect: Professional Certified EMF Testing

A complete testing panel and consultation session usually requires 2.5 to 4 hours, depending on the number of specific tests conducted, the property's size and layout, the complexity of source identification, and the determination of good, better, and best solutions.

It would be best if your certified EMRS encouraged and welcomed you to be present during the entire assessment, participate with questions, learn helpful tips, and understand your mitigation choices.

Take your time when choosing someone to hire. You need to become an informed consumer.

After conducting countless electromagnetic field EMF Testing assessments in the New York City Tri-State area, we have concluded that the most important thing you can do for yourself and your family is to hire a Professional Certified Electromagnetic Radiation Specialist, EMRS, to assess your home and office.

*** Here is a listing of certified Building Biology Institute Professional Electromagnetic Radiation Specialists in your area. EMRS list

(Note: To be trained and certified means being adequately trained and certified by the Building Biology Institute® as a Professional Electromagnetic Radiation Specialist, EMRS. Hiring someone who is not a certified EMRS is a poor decision.

(Sometimes, there may not be an EMRS available in your area, or because of the pandemic, you may be reluctant to have someone enter your home. In this case, we recommend our virtual remote EMF Residential Service.)

Travel beyond a one-hour round-trip needs to be compensated. This is whatever seems fair. Most use travel time plus mileage, gas, and tolls. Some use mileage or some combination of all of the above.

Know the consultant’s actionable safety limits.

An actionable EMF safety limit is the measured level at which the EMF expert considers the need to make recommendations for remediation and mitigation. If your consultant doesn’t believe that prolonged exposure to strong AC electric fields, AC magnetic fields, or RF (radiofrequency fields) can pose health issues, you would be wasting time and money hiring these consultants. Do your research and decide on your safety levels. An EMRS upholds the highest safety standards.

Our practice is first to suggest the most practical, cost-effective solutions for EMF remediation. Often, the Law of Diminishing Returns applies to spending on EMF mitigation. Costs for remediation are analogous to buying stereo equipment; you could pay so much more for only a tiny increment of improvement. We will work with you to help determine what is best for your EMF situation and budget.

Remember that much EMF remediation you’ll need can happen at no cost during the EMF testing and consultation.

Please contact us, and we will provide you with a quote. It would be our pleasure to meet you and, hopefully, have the opportunity to offer our services.

There are Three Tiers of EMF Testing Surveys

Top-Tier

ELEXANA residential test surveys are EMRS-based and have additional features.

Middle-Tier

Building Biology Institute’s Professional Electromagnetic Radiation Specialist residential test surveys.

Lower Tier

Standard Testing includes what most EMF Specialists will test for you.

Standard EMF Surveys

These include:

1. AC Magnetic and Radio Frequency testing. Sometimes, the “dirty electricity” can be detected with an inexpensive plug-in meter like a Greenwave, Stetzer, or Alpha Labs Broadband EMI Meter. This later test takes about one minute to perform.

2. There will be none to a few mitigation suggestions, such as “call your electrician,” “buy some shielding, “get some distance, or “turn things off.” Most of these technicians, or engineers, will advertise themselves as Professional EMF Testing Specialists, EMF Medical Experts, or just EMF Experts. (For all of you in the New York Tri-State area, where there are a few rascals, please know there is no state license for EMF Testing.)

3. There is no consistency with persons conducting Standard EMF surveys, so you don’t know what level of competency you will receive. This is in contrast to the next Tier of EMF Survey providers.

Building Biology Institute Professional Electromagnetic Radiation Specialist EMF Surveys

The good thing about hiring an EMRS is that all are trained and have learned testing procedures and protocols. The certification program is somewhat rigorous, but the IEEE, the US Government, and any state government do not recognize the certification.

Many training staff have an undergraduate B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering; a couple may have an M.S. degree. This organization also has other types of engineers, electricians, and medical practitioners.

Although the level of competency varies, as with any profession, the more experienced EMRSs are generous with their time to support and assist newer EMRSs with questions and on-the-job issues. So, if you hire an EMRS, you will get a modicum of consistency, depending on the integrity of the individual EMRS.

The tests you should expect from a certified EMRS are:

AC Magnetic Field, AC Electric Field, and DC Magnetic Field flux densities.
Radio Frequency Broadband Meter testing from 20 MHz to 8 GHz. (Some use inexpensive spectrum analyzers to identify frequencies. A few use more capable uncalibrated SAs.)
“Dirty Electricity”: Most use a plug-in EMI Broadband meter, but some also use an oscilloscope and an antenna.
Stray current tests on all utility services.
Some EMRSs will check the building’s grounding with a ground tester. Ask if they offer this service.

What distinguishes an EMRS from others is that they receive the training to work with electricians to detect and solve wiring errors that cause actionable EMF. They have a competent understanding of various shielding techniques.

Typical Limitations

Most EMRSs use inexpensive factory-calibrated equipment, so any reports they file would not stand the rigors of a court of law.
Because the equipment is not ISO certified as having been calibrated with accredited degrees of uncertainty, or +/- dB error, the actual levels measured are not replicable or verifiable by scientific standards.
Standard-issue equipment has frequency spectrum gaps. For example, RF from 1.0 to 20 MHz is not accounted for, even though thousands of FCC-licensed equipment emit RF in this range.
The typical EMRS uses EMF-sensitive persons to establish whether a mitigation protocol works. Although this is a very compassionate approach, it lacks scientific rigor.

ELEXANA EMF Surveys

Elexana’s James Finn is a voting member of the New York Section of the IEEE and a certified EMRS. The company also has an affiliate staff of fellow EMRSs, NYC local electrical engineers, and electricians.

What distinguishes Elexana from a typical EMRS and all others?

We conduct surveys using ISO 17025-certified, calibrated equipment with GPS coordinates and time stamps, measuring from Earth’s DC fields to RF up to 60 GHz, calibrated to 40 GHz. Every frequency from DC to 60 GHz is accounted for. (Please note: Even though few in this area of work can match the level of our equipment, a skilled consultant who has a strong working knowledge of the laws of physics involving electromagnetic radiation and a deep understanding of DC and AC power systems can help you and your family with even the most modest equipment.)
Every report is an official legal document and a scientific study that is replicable and verifiable.
Of course, we know the Building Biology threshold levels, but we do not use terminology like “severe” and “extreme.” We believe this is fear-mongering and skates the boundaries of conflict of interest, since most EMRSs profit by selling mitigation products. Instead, so our clients can be informed of contemporary science, we present the various international standards to our clients and point them to the studies published by the Bio-Initiative.
Another difference between Elexana and the Building Biology Institute EMRS is that they like to make up terms like MEP, Microsurge Electromagnetic Pollution, DE, dirty electricity, and electrosmog. In contrast, we prefer terms used by electrical engineering for the last fifty years, such as EMI, electromagnetic interference, THD, total harmonic distortion, and SNR, Signal-to-Noise Ratio. This is because we work with third-party engineers and electricians every day.
We test primary grounds with a certified calibrated meter and successfully design grounding systems using soil resistivity tests.
We can log and run multiple tests on your single-phase or three-phase electrical service panel's current and voltage for several days.
We can test the bonding integrity of every electrical bond in your home with a certified Micro-Ohmmeter. This is an unprecedented detail. (It is probably not necessary for 99.9% of homes.)
We measure epidermal voltage from DC to 3.0 GHz in real-time, covering every frequency.
We measure AC magnetic fields to 30 MHz.
We measure more than voltage noise that could yield “dirty electricity” (harmonic transients) on the electrical lines (hot, neutral, and ground); we measure the harmonic transients on the current. We also measure the frequencies in the air to see if what is conducted on the electrical line translates to capacitive coupling. Line and capacitive noise sometimes do not correspond due to cancellation. This thoroughness helps us determine if line filters are needed for our client or if they would make their home environment worse. Yes, installing ”dirty electricity” filters sometimes worsens the home environment!
We do not sell mitigation products directly to our clients to avoid a conflict of interest.
Due to the trickery of the placebo effect, we do not use EMF-sensitive clients as our metric for mitigation success. We work towards achieving the lowest levels achievable or reasonable due to the budget.
ELEXANA also tests ionic radiation with a certified calibration pan-style Geiger counter for clients' homes built on landfills before 1980, or their homes are in an area known to have radiation. (Although we have a radon detector, we do not test for radon.)
We can also provide seismic studies, acoustics testing well beyond the range of human hearing capabilities, and vibration, again with state-of-the-art, certified, calibrated equipment. This work is helpful for people suffering from tinnitus. It helps determine whether the ringing is in the physical space or self-generated.