Quarter Pounder® Hamburger at McDonald's. 420 calories, $5.29.
At 420 calories it is heavier than 68% of the 624 McDonald's items we track, against a menu median of 281. At 79 calories per dollar it is 133rd of 184 priced items on value.
| Item | Calories | Saving |
|---|---|---|
| Quarter Pounder | 417 | −3 |
| Crispy Chicken McMuffin | 410 | −10 |
| Deluxe Grilled Chicken Sandwich | 410 | −10 |
| Southern Style Chicken McGriddles® | 410 | −10 |
| Sausage McMuffin® | 400 | −20 |
| Chain | Item | Calories | Nutrient density |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wendy's | Jr. Hamburger | 230 | — |
| Burger King | Hamburger | 260 | 10.32 |
| Burger King | Kid's Hamburger | 260 | — |
Priced at 8258 McDonald's restaurants in 48 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $4.59 and $6.39, a spread of 39%.
It is on the menu at 8258 of the 12235 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.
Point at a bar, or tab to it, for the count and the share of restaurants at that price.
The cheapest Quarter Pounder® Hamburger in the sample is $2.69 in Winter Garden, FL, and the most expensive is $8.99 in Brawley, CA. Both are single restaurants, which is why the headline above uses the middle 80% instead.
The same map as the rest of the site. Each pin is one restaurant that sells a Quarter Pounder® Hamburger. Green is cheap for the brand, red is expensive. Zoom, switch items, or tap Cheapest near me.
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About half the variation happens between restaurants inside one state, so a state median hides as much as it shows. Of the 47 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 39 in between are not listed.
| State | Median | Restaurants | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| TX | $4.59 | 729 | cheapest |
| LA | $4.79 | 152 | cheapest |
| UT | $4.80 | 40 | cheapest |
| MS | $4.89 | 103 | cheapest |
| AZ | $6.69 | 148 | most expensive |
| AK | $6.50 | 12 | most expensive |
| MA | $6.49 | 235 | most expensive |
| NH | $6.29 | 19 | most expensive |
406 of the 8,261 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-01. Where it moved, the typical change was +5.2%. A typical one now charges $5.29.
2026-09-01 · $5.49 to 2026-09-26 · $5.29. 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.
See every Quarter Pounder® Hamburger we price on the map — 8,258 restaurants, one dot each →
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Quarter Pounder® Hamburger’s $5.29. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Piece McCrispy™ Strips | $5.29 | 29% | 12,234 |
| Sausage, Egg & Cheese McGriddles® | $5.29 | 35% | 12,233 |
| Spicy McCrispy™ | $5.29 | 37% | 12,232 |
| Steak & Egg McMuffin® | $5.29 | 39% | 10,171 |
| Triple Cheeseburger | $5.19 | 34% | 11,733 |
Calorie and price data come from McDonald's's own ordering system. USDA does not publish a full nutrient panel for this item.