Iceberg Lettuce:
$3.62 per lb
Price History
Price Records
How It Affects Your Burger
At $3.62 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 $0.228 per burger — 7% of the $3.35 composite cost in May 2026.
Over the past 12 months Iceberg Lettuce has climbed +21.0% — 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.
The current $3.62 is the highest Iceberg Lettuce has been in this dataset, matching the all-time high first reached in May 2026. The record low was $1.80 back in January 2017.
This page draws on 89 months of BLS Average Price readings for Iceberg Lettuce, from January 2017 through May 2026. Across that span the price has moved $1.82 between its low and high — a peak-to-trough swing of 101%.
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 $3.62 per lb, according to BLS CPI Average Price data. The price has changed +21.0% year-over-year.
Each homemade cheeseburger uses 0.063 lbs of iceberg lettuce. At the current price, that adds $0.228 to the cost of each burger.
The all-time high price for iceberg lettuce was $3.62 per lb, recorded in May 2026. The all-time low was $1.80, recorded in January 2017.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI, 2026.