20 Pc. Spicy Chicken McNuggets®
20 Pc. Spicy Chicken McNuggets® at McDonald's. 980 calories, $8.19.
Photograph from McDonald's, as published on its own menu.
How it compares on the McDonald's menu
At 980 calories it is heavier than 98% of the 624 McDonald's items we track, against a menu median of 281. At 120 calories per dollar it is 58th of 184 priced items on value.
Lighter choices at McDonald's
| Item | Calories | Saving |
|---|---|---|
| Triple Breakfast Stacks Bagel | 970 | −10 |
| Double Bacon BBQ Burger | 950 | −30 |
| Double Smoky BLT Quarter Pounder® with Cheese | 900 | −80 |
| Bacon BBQ Stack | 880 | −100 |
| Double Cheesy Jalapeno & Bacon Quarter Pounder® with Cheese | 870 | −110 |
The same thing at other chains
| Chain | Item | Calories | Nutrient density |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burger King | Chicken Jr. | 440 | — |
What a 20 pc. Spicy Chicken McNuggets® costs across America
Priced at 12179 McDonald's restaurants in 50 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $6.99 and $9.99, a spread of 43%.
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.
Point at a bar, or tab to it, for the count and the share of restaurants at that price.
The cheapest 20 pc. Spicy Chicken McNuggets® in the sample is $4.69 in Longmont, CO, and the most expensive is $18.95 in Anchorage, AK. 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 50 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 42 in between are not listed.
| State | Median | Restaurants | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| OK | $6.00 | 163 | cheapest |
| OR | $6.00 | 132 | cheapest |
| KS | $6.00 | 117 | cheapest |
| VA | $7.00 | 331 | cheapest |
| AK | $15.60 | 19 | most expensive |
| MT | $10.50 | 17 | most expensive |
| DC | $9.99 | 56 | most expensive |
| UT | $9.50 | 108 | most expensive |
What it has cost since we started watching
970 of the 12,182 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-01. Where it moved, the typical change was -14.7%. A typical one now charges $8.19.
2026-09-01 · $8.39 to 2026-09-26 · $8.19. Point at a day, or tab to it, for that day's median and how many restaurants it came from.
The median across the restaurants priced each day. It can step when our coverage of the chain grows, which is why the sentence above counts restaurants rather than reading this line.
Priced like this at McDonald's
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the 20 Pc. Spicy Chicken McNuggets®’s $8.19. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 pc. Chicken McNuggets® | $8.19 | 45% | 12,235 |
| Double Quarter Pounder® with Cheese Deluxe | $7.99 | 31% | 11,379 |
| Smoky BLT Quarter Pounder® with Cheese | $8.39 | 39% | 31 |
| Double Bacon Quarter Pounder® with Cheese | $8.49 | 29% | 11,673 |
| McTeri® Deluxe | $7.49 | 30% | 62 |
Calorie and price data come from McDonald's's own ordering system. USDA does not publish a full nutrient panel for this item.