Chicken Jr.
Chicken Jr. at Burger King. 440 calories, $2.39, 13 g protein.
Photograph from Burger King, as published on its own menu.
How it compares on the Burger King menu
At 440 calories it is heavier than 69% of the 259 Burger King items we track, against a menu median of 300. It delivers 3.0 g of protein per 100 calories, 82nd of 143 items with published protein. At 184 calories per dollar it is 6th of 251 priced items on value.
Lighter choices at Burger King
| Item | Calories | Saving |
|---|---|---|
| Breakfast Burrito Jr. | 420 | −20 |
| Texas Whopper® Jr. | 420 | −20 |
| Spicy Royal Crispy Wrap | 390 | −50 |
| BBQ Bacon Whopper Jr. | 390 | −50 |
| Whopper Jr.® with Cheese | 380 | −60 |
The same thing at other chains
| Chain | Item | Calories | Nutrient density |
|---|---|---|---|
| KFC | Popcorn Chicken | 22 | 0.46 |
| Popeyes | Fried Chicken, Mild, Wing, Meat Only, Skin and Breading Removed | 34 | 14.92 |
| McDonald's | 1 Chicken McNugget® | 40 | — |
| KFC | Fried Chicken, Original Recipe, Wing, Meat Only, Skin and Breading Removed | 50 | 18.05 |
| Popeyes | Fried Chicken, Mild, Wing, Meat and Skin with Breading | 58 | -2.05 |
| KFC | Fried Chicken, Original Recipe, Wing, Meat and Skin with Breading | 68 | 4.68 |
What a Chicken Jr. costs across America
Priced at 5688 Burger King restaurants in 50 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $1.99 and $2.99, a spread of 50%.
It is on the menu at 5688 of the 6276 restaurants sampled, so it is not carried everywhere.
Each bar is the number of restaurants charging that price, and the gold bar holds the median. The last gathers everything at that price and above, so one distant outlier cannot flatten the rest.
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The cheapest Chicken Jr. in the sample is $1.19 in Amarillo, TX, and the most expensive is $6.19 in Kapaa, HI. Both are single restaurants, which is why the headline above uses the middle 80% instead.
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By state, for what it is worth
About half the variation happens between restaurants inside one state, so a state median hides as much as it shows. Of the 49 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 41 in between are not listed.
| State | Median | Restaurants | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| TX | $1.89 | 525 | cheapest |
| NM | $1.99 | 51 | cheapest |
| NC | $1.99 | 214 | cheapest |
| OK | $1.99 | 54 | cheapest |
| HI | $5.69 | 16 | most expensive |
| AK | $3.49 | 4 | most expensive |
| CA | $3.09 | 403 | most expensive |
| RI | $2.99 | 25 | most expensive |
What it has cost since we started watching
108 of the 5,901 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-01. Where it moved, the typical change was +13.2%. A typical one now charges $2.39.
See every Chicken Jr. we price on the map — 5,688 restaurants, one dot each →
Priced like this at Burger King
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Chicken Jr.’s $2.39. The spread is the middle 80% of restaurants, so a wide one means the same item costs noticeably different amounts depending where you buy it.
| Item | Median | Spread | Restaurants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breakfast Burrito Jr. | $2.39 | 50% | 6,187 |
| Kid's Cheeseburger | $2.39 | 13% | 6,173 |
| French Toast Sticks | $2.39 | 58% | 5,260 |
| Sausage Biscuit | $2.29 | 58% | 6,089 |
| Hash Browns | $2.59 | 48% | 6,242 |
Full nutrient panel
| Nutrient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cholesterol | 40 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 13 g |
| Saturated Fat | 5 g |
| Sodium | 700 mg |
| Sugars | 5 g |
| Total Carbohydrate | 39 g |
| Total Fat | 27 g |
| Trans Fat | 0 g |
The nutrition label as Burger King publishes it for this item, matched to the current menu, alongside the store-level price above.