American Cheese:
$5.97
Price History
Price Records
How It Affects Your Burger
Each cheeseburger uses of american cheese. At the current price of $5.97 , that adds $NaN to the cost of each burger.
BLS Series: . Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (public domain).
Frequently Asked Questions
American Cheese currently costs $5.97 undefined, according to BLS CPI Average Price data. The price has changed +4.1% year-over-year.
Each homemade cheeseburger uses undefined undefined of american cheese. At the current price, that adds $NaN to the cost of each burger.
The all-time high price for american cheese was $6.12 undefined, recorded in August 2025. The all-time low was $4.75, recorded in May 2017.
The this entity category groups every U.S. fast-food cheeseburger prices entity sharing this attribute. The list above is the data; the paragraphs below explain what the grouping means against the broader BLS Consumer Price Index and per-chain published menu prices distribution and how to read the relative rankings within the category.
For readers using this category as a starting point, the per-entity detail pages linked from the table above carry the underlying BLS Consumer Price Index and per-chain published menu prices data in full. The category-level view is the filter; the per-entity pages are the actual answer.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI, 2026.