40 Pc. Spicy Chicken McNuggets®
40 Pc. Spicy Chicken McNuggets® at McDonald's. 1950 calories, $14.29.
Photograph from McDonald's, as published on its own menu.
How it compares on the McDonald's menu
At 1950 calories it is heavier than 100% of the 624 McDonald's items we track, against a menu median of 281. At 136 calories per dollar it is 35th of 184 priced items on value.
Lighter choices at McDonald's
| Item | Calories | Saving |
|---|---|---|
| Big Breakfast with Hotcakes | 1340 | −610 |
| Big Breakfast/Steak Hot Cake | 1290 | −660 |
| Big Breakfast with Bacon & Hotcakes | 1290 | −660 |
| Big B w/Mf Hc | 1240 | −710 |
| Deluxe Breakfast | 1150 | −800 |
The same thing at other chains
| Chain | Item | Calories | Nutrient density |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burger King | Chicken Jr. | 440 | — |
What a 40 pc. Spicy Chicken McNuggets® costs across America
Priced at 11838 McDonald's restaurants in 50 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $12.29 and $17.49, a spread of 42%.
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 40 pc. Spicy Chicken McNuggets® in the sample is $9.99 in Saint Louis, MO, and the most expensive is $27.89 in Central Valley, NY. 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 | $12.29 | 163 | cheapest |
| NC | $12.49 | 431 | cheapest |
| AL | $12.59 | 157 | cheapest |
| NV | $12.79 | 75 | cheapest |
| AK | $22.35 | 19 | most expensive |
| DE | $17.75 | 36 | most expensive |
| NH | $16.99 | 47 | most expensive |
| HI | $16.99 | 61 | most expensive |
What it has cost since we started watching
411 of the 11,842 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-01. Where it moved, the typical change was +4.4%. A typical one now charges $14.29.
Priced like this at McDonald's
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the 40 Pc. Spicy Chicken McNuggets®’s $14.29. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 pc. Chicken McNuggets® | $14.19 | 42% | 11,086 |
| Choc Birthday Cake | $12.99 | 150% | 2,671 |
| Double Bacon Quarter Pounder® with Cheese | $8.49 | 29% | 11,673 |
| Smoky BLT Quarter Pounder® with Cheese | $8.39 | 39% | 31 |
| 20 pc. Chicken McNuggets® | $8.19 | 45% | 12,235 |
Calorie and price data come from McDonald's's own ordering system. USDA does not publish a full nutrient panel for this item.