Iceberg Lettuce:
$3.47 per lb
Price History
Price Records
How It Affects Your Burger
At $3.47 per lb, Iceberg Lettuce is the BLS retail price behind one of the five ingredients in the homemade cheeseburger basket. A single burger uses 0.063 lbs, which works out to $0.219 per burger — 7% of the $3.33 composite cost in July 2026.
Over the past 12 months Iceberg Lettuce has climbed +15.4% — a sharp move that has made it one of the faster-rising lines in the basket and a direct driver of recent increases in the overall burger cost.
At $3.47, Iceberg Lettuce is near the top of its recorded range — its all-time high was $4.02 in June 2026, and its all-time low $1.80 in January 2017.
This page draws on 91 months of BLS Average Price readings for Iceberg Lettuce, from January 2017 through July 2026. Across that span the price has moved $2.22 between its low and high — a peak-to-trough swing of 123%.
Iceberg Lettuce is a produce item, the part of the basket most exposed to seasonal and weather-driven swings, priced from BLS CPI Average Price series APU0000FL2101 — public-domain federal data refreshed monthly, with no modeling or estimation.
BLS Series: APU0000FL2101. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (public domain).
Frequently Asked Questions
Iceberg Lettuce currently costs $3.47 per lb, according to BLS CPI Average Price data. The price has changed +15.4% year-over-year.
Each homemade cheeseburger uses 0.063 lbs of iceberg lettuce. At the current price, that adds $0.219 to the cost of each burger.
The all-time high price for iceberg lettuce was $4.02 per lb, recorded in June 2026. The all-time low was $1.80, recorded in January 2017.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI, 2026.