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Basket price history
Burger Cost by City
1 double-patty burger serving model · 12 tracked city areas
$4.08 – $5.99
Latest city range · basket total · USD
Lowest to highest across 12 cities-0.4%
Index change · day over day
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What does this price measure?
Daily city cost of buns, beef, American cheese, lettuce, onions, pickles, and condiments for one double-patty burger.
What’s in the basket?
Burger Cost Components
Breaks this composite into its component indexes, showing configured quantities, latest costs and basket shares, contribution changes, and selected-city trends over the same dates.- Cities
- 12
- Components
- 10
Composite driver summary
Summarizes the selected city's composite move and available component impacts over the same comparison dates.- Change in composite (5 days)
- -1.0%
- Oct 9, 2026 – Oct 14, 2026
- Total composite change
- -$0.05
- from $4.59 to $4.55
How components built the composite change
Start$4.59
- Beef patties-$0.06-1.2%
- Hamburger bun+$0.05+1.1%
- American cheese-$0.03-0.8%
- Pickles+$0.01+0.2%
- Lettuce-$0.01-0.1%
- Mayonnaise-$0.01-0.1%
- Onions$0.00-0.1%
- Mustard$0.000.0%
- Ketchup$0.000.0%
- Pickle relish$0.000.0%
End$4.55
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Component price pages
Price for a 10-bun package equivalent.
10 buns
Price for one pound of raw ground beef.
1 lb beef
Price for an 8-slice package equivalent of American cheese.
8 slices
Price for one lettuce item.
1 unit-priced lettuce item
Price for one pound of fresh common onions.
1 lb onions
Price for a 16-fluid-ounce jar equivalent of pickles.
16 fl oz pickles
Price for a 30-fluid-ounce container equivalent of mayonnaise.
30 fl oz mayonnaise
Price for a 20-ounce bottle equivalent of ketchup.
20 oz ketchup
Price for a 12-ounce bottle equivalent of mustard.
12 oz mustard
Price for a 12-fluid-ounce jar equivalent of pickle relish.
12 fl oz relish
Burger Cost Methodology
Grocery ingredient cost for one double-patty burger. Basket totals are expressed in U.S. dollars. The index line combines the component price indexes using their basket quantity weights. The band runs from the lowest to highest selected location. The headline range compares the lowest and highest city index values on the latest observation date. Changes in the mix of observed products can also affect the index. Charts can also show lower band, medium band and upper band.
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CostInflation, "Burger Cost by City" [burger_index], CostInflation price history, https://costinflation.com/indices/burger-cost-by-city.
Latest observation: Oct 14, 2026. Updated: Oct 14, 2026. Coverage: Cities.
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