4 Pc. Chicken McNuggets®
4 Pc. Chicken McNuggets® at McDonald's. 170 calories, $2.49, 9 g protein.
Photograph from McDonald's, as published on its own menu.
How it compares on the McDonald's menu
At 170 calories it is lighter than 72% of the 624 McDonald's items we track, against a menu median of 281. It delivers 5.3 g of protein per 100 calories, 39th of 174 items with published protein. At 68 calories per dollar it is 142nd of 184 priced items on value.
The same thing at other chains
| Chain | Item | Calories | Nutrient density |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burger King | Chicken Jr. | 440 | — |
What a 4 pc. Chicken McNuggets® costs across America
Priced at 12232 McDonald's restaurants in 50 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $1.99 and $2.89, a spread of 45%.
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 4 pc. Chicken McNuggets® in the sample is $1.00 in Countryside, IL, and the most expensive is $4.90 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ID | $1.99 | 49 | cheapest |
| WV | $2.09 | 93 | cheapest |
| IL | $2.19 | 607 | cheapest |
| IN | $2.19 | 346 | cheapest |
| AK | $2.99 | 19 | most expensive |
| HI | $2.99 | 62 | most expensive |
| MT | $2.90 | 17 | most expensive |
| CA | $2.89 | 1119 | most expensive |
What it has cost since we started watching
463 of the 12,235 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-01. Where it moved, the typical change was +7.7%. A typical one now charges $2.49.
Priced like this at McDonald's
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the 4 Pc. Chicken McNuggets®’s $2.49. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheeseburger | $2.49 | 45% | 12,235 |
| McCrispy™ Filet | $2.49 | 75% | 12,226 |
| 4 pc. Spicy Chicken McNuggets® | $2.49 | 50% | 11,931 |
| 3 Pack Of Cookies | $2.59 | 95% | 7,217 |
| Guava and Creme Pie | $2.59 | 55% | 343 |
Full nutrient panel
| Nutrient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Added Sugars | 0 g |
| Calcium | 6 mg |
| Cholesterol | 25 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Iron | 0.5 mg |
| Potassium | 150 mg |
| Protein | 9 g |
| Saturated Fat | 1.5 g |
| Sodium | 340 mg |
| Sugars | 0 g |
| Total Carbohydrate | 10 g |
| Total Fat | 10 g |
| Trans Fat | 0 g |
| Vitamin D | 0 mcg |
The nutrition label as McDonald's publishes it for this item, matched to the current menu, alongside the store-level price above.