White Bread:
$1.83 per lb
Price History
Price Records
How It Affects Your Burger
At $1.83 per lb, White Bread is the BLS retail price behind one of the five ingredients in the homemade cheeseburger basket. A single burger uses 0.125 lbs, which works out to $0.229 per burger — 7% of the $3.35 composite cost in May 2026.
White Bread is down -2.5% year-over-year — a small decline that has eased its contribution to the composite cheeseburger cost.
At $1.83, White Bread sits in the middle of its recorded range, between an all-time low of $1.26 in March 2019 and an all-time high of $2.03 in January 2024.
This page draws on 112 months of BLS Average Price readings for White Bread, from January 2017 through May 2026. Across that span the price has moved $0.77 between its low and high — a peak-to-trough swing of 61%.
White Bread is the grain component (the bun), priced from BLS CPI Average Price series APU0000702111 — public-domain federal data refreshed monthly, with no modeling or estimation.
BLS Series: APU0000702111. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (public domain).
Frequently Asked Questions
White Bread currently costs $1.83 per lb, according to BLS CPI Average Price data. The price has changed -2.5% year-over-year.
Each homemade cheeseburger uses 0.125 lbs of white bread. At the current price, that adds $0.229 to the cost of each burger.
The all-time high price for white bread was $2.03 per lb, recorded in January 2024. The all-time low was $1.26, recorded in March 2019.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI, 2026.