Quarter Pounder® with Cheese
Quarter Pounder® with Cheese at McDonald's. 520 calories, $5.99, 30 g protein.
Photograph from McDonald's, as published on its own menu.
How it compares on the McDonald's menu
At 520 calories it is heavier than 79% of the 624 McDonald's items we track, against a menu median of 281. Its nutrition score is D — poor. Little nutrition for the calories. It ranks 28th of 46 scored McDonald's items. It delivers 5.8 g of protein per 100 calories, 27th of 174 items with published protein. At 87 calories per dollar it is 119th of 184 priced items on value.
Lighter choices at McDonald's
| Item | Calories | Saving |
|---|---|---|
| Bacon Double Cheeseburger | 510 | −10 |
| Double Homestyle Burger | 500 | −20 |
| Sausage, Egg & Cheese Blueberry McGriddles® | 500 | −20 |
| Large Popcorn | 500 | −20 |
| Daily Double® | 490 | −30 |
What a Quarter Pounder® with Cheese costs across America
Priced at 12234 McDonald's restaurants in 50 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $5.29 and $6.99, a spread of 32%.
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® with Cheese in the sample is $3.99 in Houston, TX, and the most expensive is $9.19 in Brawley, CA. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TX | $5.29 | 1067 | cheapest |
| LA | $5.39 | 190 | cheapest |
| OK | $5.49 | 163 | cheapest |
| MS | $5.49 | 103 | cheapest |
| MT | $7.75 | 17 | most expensive |
| AZ | $7.54 | 254 | most expensive |
| AK | $7.40 | 19 | most expensive |
| VT | $6.99 | 13 | most expensive |
What it has cost since we started watching
757 of the 12,237 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-01. Where it moved, the typical change was +3.6%. A typical one now charges $5.99.
2026-09-01 · $6.19 to 2026-09-26 · $5.99. 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® with Cheese we price on the map — 12,234 restaurants, one dot each →
Priced like this at McDonald's
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Quarter Pounder® with Cheese’s $5.99. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mac® | $5.99 | 39% | 12,235 |
| Deluxe Spicy McCrispy™ | $5.99 | 33% | 12,232 |
| Steak, Egg & Cheese McGriddles® | $5.99 | 32% | 9,815 |
| Bacon BBQ Burger | $5.99 | — | 13 |
| Big Breakfast/Steak Hot Cake | $6.09 | 72% | 6,209 |
Full nutrient panel
| Nutrient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Added Sugars | 8 g |
| Calcium | 190 mg |
| Cholesterol | 95 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Iron | 4 mg |
| Potassium | 420 mg |
| Protein | 30 g |
| Saturated Fat | 12 g |
| Sodium | 1140 mg |
| Sugars | 10 g |
| Total Carbohydrate | 42 g |
| Total Fat | 26 g |
| Trans Fat | 1.5 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.