2025 Jet Ski Pricing – New and Old MSRP Data

The first step to getting a jet ski is research, especially if you’re a beginner! You got to find out if this sport is for you or should you move on to something else! After doing some research, you need to determine what you want to buy. Considering your riding style, do you need a jet ski for speed or something for the whole family?

After all that, or even before that, you start to look at costs! Not just the cost of getting a new jet ski, but the maintenance and other items to keep it going.

For this post, I want to cover the current and even past prices for the major jet ski models on the market. I also want to discuss the market, show you my calculator to get an estimated out the door number, and answer some questions you may have. So, let’s dig in!

How much does a jet ski cost?

What Is The Out The Door, What Are The Fees?

But wait, there’s more to consider!

Those prices I just mentioned don’t even cover taxes, fees, and the PWC trailer. I get it; it can get pretty confusing real fast. That’s precisely why I’ve cooked up the pricing calculator for jet skis that’s based on real-world scenarios, not those useless ones you stumble upon elsewhere on the internet.

Let’s keep it real, folks; the dealership tends to charge prep, freight, and doc fees, so you might as well use the calculator that’s got all that covered.

Used PWC Pricing – Use Our Tool!

If you’re looking for used or trade-in values, I have a tool for that called “Steven Used PWC Values (SUP Values)“. I also have a post that goes over other ways to figure out the amount you should pay for a used waverunner here.

The Used Market Varies in $$$

The average on used or pre-owned PWCs range from $2,000 to $15,000 depending on the year, shape, and condition. These can go for more or less depending on the newness of the model, its condition along with market conditions. Just watch out for scammers on the used market, they’re on the rise. They’ll rope you into a cheap, too good to be true deal, and run away with your money. I’m getting a lot more emails from people about this, and it seems to be getting worse. They also target people selling, as seen here. Be careful out there, folks!!!

Interesting Tidbits: Pricing on PWCs Since 1990

I built a tool to calculate what used PWCs are worth, and doing so, I have a large database of historic data dating back to 1990 to 2024 and on going now. With this data, I can calculate interesting tidbits through the years for cost and other data.

The Average & Median Costs Over Time for PWCs

• Average (1990-2024): $10,019.93
• Average (Past 5 Years): $12,923.90.
• Median (1990-2024): $9,399
• Median (Past 5 Years): $12,449

The average price (cost) has INCREASED by approximately $3,095 over the past 10 years !​ In the past 10 years, the cheapest model was the 2015 Sea-Doo Spark 2up 60HP at $4,999! When the Spark came out, most PWCs MSRPs were twice that, so it shows how the Spark really brought new life to the industry.

What Is the Best Time To Buy?

Timing the market can tricky, especially when doing it during the busiest time of the year. You’re going to pay more, often over retail for the crazy busy market, if you buy when it’s summer and warm out. The opposite can be true, when it’s cold things do get cheaper.

The best time to buy is when the jetski manufacturer releases new models, as the dealership and the manufacturer want them to get rid of the old inventory. The problem is that many dealers don’t have inventory then when demand is high. If they do, it’s for models that no one wants. If you’re eye-balling something exact, I’m sure others are too, especially if the color is nice, so don’t wait and get it as they won’t restart production runs when the time is up!

Haggling For a PWC Can Be Tricky

There is an art to haggling, and you can do it on many models on the market. Unless demand is so good that the dealership or guy selling doesn’t want to.

I’ve seen all the tricks, and some of them are quite funny… like asking for the sales manager thinking they can give you something better; it’s wasting everyone’s time. There are things you can do to get the better deal on your next that I cover in this watercraft buying guide here.

Will PWC Dealerships Come Back To Reality?

When the world shut down in 2020, and we had crazy times, supply chains were affected and items like jetskis were hard to get. With people stuck at home, extra money, and nothing to do, sales went crazy. This caused many dealerships to value their inventory high, many fees and other items that customers hate. While it sucked, it was needed because of supply and demand.

That was fine from 2020 to 2023, but even today I’m seeing some dealerships still acting like there are supply chain issues. Many ski dealers got a taste for high-priced sales and don’t want to let go.

It’s the free market, and they can sell the ski for whatever, but the competition can also sell it for whatever. Something is going to crumble as the jetskis selling at high numbers are dying. This could lead to many leftover models at the year end with great rebates or warranty offers.

As someone who worked through the 2009 recession at a dealership, this part worries me, as we saw many of the dealers go out of business. You don’t want to see this going on, as it’s a domino effect, and it only gets worse. So hopefully, dealerships can come back to reality and start pricing skis according to the market. But hey, “I’m just some guy on the internet.”