Colby Ferreira
Food Price Data Editor
BLS Consumer Price Index average-price series for cheeseburger ingredients
Colby Ferreira leads how Burgernomics reads and presents the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index average-price series. The role decides which BLS series and regional vintages each ingredient and region page uses, holds the cheeseburger ingredient basket and weights constant, and triages data corrections. Ingredient prices, the assembled per-burger cost, and year-over-year change are drafted with AI assistance and editorially reviewed against the underlying BLS Average Price releases before publication — no figure is modeled or estimated.
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