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Burgernomics

American Cheese:
$5.97

$5.97
$NaN
Cost per burger
+4.1%
Year-over-Year
110
Months of Data

Price History

$4.50$5.00$5.50$6.00$6.50Jan 2017Oct 2018Jul 2020Apr 2022Jan 2024Nov 2025Mar 2026

Price Records

All-Time High
$6.12
August 2025
All-Time Low
$4.75
May 2017

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.