Sausage McMuffin® with Egg

Sausage McMuffin® with Egg at McDonald's. 480 calories, $4.59, 20 g protein.

Sausage McMuffin® with Egg

Photograph from McDonald's, as published on its own menu.

480calories
$4.59price
20 gprotein
Dnutrition score
105calories per dollar

How it compares on the McDonald's menu

At 480 calories it is heavier than 76% 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 32nd of 46 scored McDonald's items. It delivers 4.2 g of protein per 100 calories, 73rd of 174 items with published protein. At 105 calories per dollar it is 83rd of 184 priced items on value.

Lighter choices at McDonald's

ItemCaloriesSaving
McCrispy™470−10
Bacon McDouble®460−20
Mac Junior®460−20
Bacon Deluxe Egg McMuffin®460−20
Cheese Cake460−20

The same thing at other chains

ChainItemCaloriesNutrient density
Chick-fil-ASausage240—

What a Sausage McMuffin® with Egg costs across America

Priced at 12234 McDonald's restaurants in 50 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $3.89 and $5.39, a spread of 39%.

$4.59median price
$3.89–$5.39middle 80%
12234restaurants priced
50states
397 restaurants at $2.99–$3.1873 restaurants at $3.18–$3.38253 restaurants at $3.38–$3.57267 restaurants at $3.57–$3.76572 restaurants at $3.76–$3.951604 restaurants at $3.95–$4.151402 restaurants at $4.15–$4.341539 restaurants at $4.34–$4.531465 restaurants at $4.53–$4.731276 restaurants at $4.73–$4.921424 restaurants at $4.92–$5.11733 restaurants at $5.11–$5.30486 restaurants at $5.30–$5.50743 restaurants at $5.50 and above$2.99$5.50+

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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$2.59cheapest sampled — Dryden, NY
$7.59most expensive sampled — Brawley, CA

The cheapest Sausage McMuffin® with Egg in the sample is $2.59 in Dryden, NY, and the most expensive is $7.59 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.

StateMedianRestaurantsEnd
ID$3.0049cheapest
UT$3.00108cheapest
NC$3.49433cheapest
SC$3.99216cheapest
HI$5.9962most expensive
AK$5.6019most expensive
MT$5.5017most expensive
AZ$5.49254most expensive

What it has cost since we started watching

542 of the 12,237 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-01. Where it moved, the typical change was +1.8%. A typical one now charges $4.59.

$4.44$4.54$4.642026-09-01 - $4.59 - median of 449 restaurants2026-09-02 - $4.59 - median of 449 restaurants2026-09-03 - $4.49 - median of 12,203 restaurants2026-09-04 - $4.49 - median of 12,211 restaurants2026-09-05 - $4.49 - median of 12,222 restaurants2026-09-06 - $4.49 - median of 12,222 restaurants2026-09-07 - $4.49 - median of 12,222 restaurants2026-09-08 - $4.49 - median of 12,222 restaurants2026-09-09 - $4.49 - median of 12,222 restaurants2026-09-10 - $4.49 - median of 12,222 restaurants2026-09-11 - $4.50 - median of 12,222 restaurants2026-09-12 - $4.50 - median of 12,222 restaurants2026-09-13 - $4.50 - median of 12,222 restaurants2026-09-14 - $4.50 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-15 - $4.52 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-16 - $4.52 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-17 - $4.52 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-18 - $4.55 - median of 12,226 restaurants2026-09-19 - $4.55 - median of 12,226 restaurants2026-09-20 - $4.55 - median of 12,227 restaurants2026-09-21 - $4.55 - median of 12,227 restaurants2026-09-22 - $4.59 - median of 12,227 restaurants2026-09-23 - $4.59 - median of 12,229 restaurants2026-09-24 - $4.59 - median of 12,229 restaurants2026-09-25 - $4.59 - median of 12,237 restaurants2026-09-26 - $4.59 - median of 12,237 restaurants2026-09-012026-09-26

2026-09-01 · $4.59 to 2026-09-26 · $4.59. 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.

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Priced like this at McDonald's

The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Sausage McMuffin® with Egg’s $4.59. 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.

ItemMedianSpreadRestaurants
Cheesy Jalapeno Bacon Egg and Cheese Biscuit$4.50—15
Cheesy Jalapeno Egg McMuffin®$4.50—18
Bacon McDouble®$4.4943%12,110
Hotcakes$4.6949%12,235
Sausage Egg Biscuit$4.6943%12,234

Full nutrient panel

NutrientAmount
Added Sugars1 g
Calcium170 mg
Cholesterol280 mg
Dietary Fiber2 g
Iron3 mg
Potassium260 mg
Protein20 g
Saturated Fat12 g
Sodium830 mg
Sugars2 g
Total Carbohydrate30 g
Total Fat31 g
Trans Fat0.5 g
Vitamin D4 mcg

The nutrition label as McDonald's publishes it for this item, matched to the current menu, alongside the store-level price above.