Sausage McMuffin®

Sausage McMuffin® at McDonald's. 400 calories, $1.89, 14 g protein.

Sausage McMuffin®

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

400calories
$1.89price
14 gprotein
Dnutrition score
212calories per dollar

How it compares on the McDonald's menu

At 400 calories it is heavier than 66% 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 36th of 46 scored McDonald's items. It delivers 3.5 g of protein per 100 calories, 91st of 174 items with published protein. At 212 calories per dollar it is 6th of 184 priced items on value.

Lighter choices at McDonald's

ItemCaloriesSaving
Bacon Ranch Salad with Crispy Chicken390−10
McDouble®390−10
McChicken®390−10
Ranch Snack Wrap®390−10
Hot 'n Spicy McChicken®390−10

The same thing at other chains

ChainItemCaloriesNutrient density
Chick-fil-ASausage240—

What a Sausage McMuffin® costs across America

Priced at 12232 McDonald's restaurants in 50 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $1.50 and $2.49, a spread of 66%.

$1.89median price
$1.50–$2.49middle 80%
12232restaurants priced
50states
1518 restaurants at $1.49–$1.581066 restaurants at $1.58–$1.681166 restaurants at $1.68–$1.771315 restaurants at $1.77–$1.861074 restaurants at $1.86–$1.952028 restaurants at $1.95–$2.05121 restaurants at $2.05–$2.141330 restaurants at $2.14–$2.23688 restaurants at $2.23–$2.33305 restaurants at $2.33–$2.42486 restaurants at $2.42–$2.51159 restaurants at $2.51–$2.60256 restaurants at $2.60–$2.70720 restaurants at $2.70 and above$1.49$2.70+

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.

$1.49cheapest sampled — Taylorsville, UT
$5.79most expensive sampled — Milford, MA

The cheapest Sausage McMuffin® in the sample is $1.49 in Taylorsville, UT, and the most expensive is $5.79 in Milford, MA. 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
OK$1.59163cheapest
TX$1.591067cheapest
UT$1.60108cheapest
IN$1.69346cheapest
AK$2.9919most expensive
MT$2.7517most expensive
HI$2.3962most expensive
CA$2.391119most expensive

What it has cost since we started watching

834 of the 12,235 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-01. Where it moved, the typical change was +8.7%. A typical one now charges $1.95.

$1.82$1.92$2.022026-09-01 - $1.89 - median of 447 restaurants2026-09-02 - $1.89 - median of 447 restaurants2026-09-03 - $1.89 - median of 12,201 restaurants2026-09-04 - $1.89 - median of 12,209 restaurants2026-09-05 - $1.89 - median of 12,220 restaurants2026-09-06 - $1.89 - median of 12,220 restaurants2026-09-07 - $1.89 - median of 12,220 restaurants2026-09-08 - $1.89 - median of 12,220 restaurants2026-09-09 - $1.89 - median of 12,220 restaurants2026-09-10 - $1.89 - median of 12,220 restaurants2026-09-11 - $1.89 - median of 12,220 restaurants2026-09-12 - $1.89 - median of 12,220 restaurants2026-09-13 - $1.89 - median of 12,220 restaurants2026-09-14 - $1.89 - median of 12,221 restaurants2026-09-15 - $1.89 - median of 12,221 restaurants2026-09-16 - $1.89 - median of 12,221 restaurants2026-09-17 - $1.89 - median of 12,221 restaurants2026-09-18 - $1.89 - median of 12,224 restaurants2026-09-19 - $1.89 - median of 12,224 restaurants2026-09-20 - $1.89 - median of 12,225 restaurants2026-09-21 - $1.89 - median of 12,225 restaurants2026-09-22 - $1.89 - median of 12,225 restaurants2026-09-23 - $1.89 - median of 12,227 restaurants2026-09-24 - $1.89 - median of 12,227 restaurants2026-09-25 - $1.95 - median of 12,235 restaurants2026-09-26 - $1.95 - median of 12,235 restaurants2026-09-012026-09-26

2026-09-01 · $1.89 to 2026-09-26 · $1.95. 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.

Everything that changed at this chain →

See every Sausage McMuffin® we price on the map — 12,232 restaurants, one dot each →

Priced like this at McDonald's

The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Sausage McMuffin®’s $1.89. 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
Sausage Biscuit$1.8967%12,225
Apple Pie$1.8945%12,181
Sausage Gravy$1.89108%3,649
English McMuffin®$1.8054%12,234
2 Cookies$1.98100%7,739

Full nutrient panel

NutrientAmount
Added Sugars1 g
Calcium140 mg
Cholesterol55 mg
Dietary Fiber2 g
Iron2.5 mg
Potassium190 mg
Protein14 g
Saturated Fat10 g
Sodium760 mg
Sugars2 g
Total Carbohydrate29 g
Total Fat26 g
Trans Fat0.5 g
Vitamin D0 mcg

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