Steak & Egg McMuffin®

Steak & Egg McMuffin® at McDonald's. 450 calories, $5.29.

450calories
$5.29price
85calories per dollar

How it compares on the McDonald's menu

At 450 calories it is heavier than 72% of the 624 McDonald's items we track, against a menu median of 281. At 85 calories per dollar it is 124th of 184 priced items on value.

Lighter choices at McDonald's

ItemCaloriesSaving
Double Cheeseburger440−10
10 McNuggets440−10
Sausage McGriddles®430−20
Bacon, Egg & Cheese McGriddles®430−20
Homestyle Burger430−20

What a Steak & Egg McMuffin® costs across America

Priced at 10171 McDonald's restaurants in 50 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $4.59 and $6.39, a spread of 39%.

$5.29median price
$4.59–$6.39middle 80%
10171restaurants priced
50states

It is on the menu at 10171 of the 12235 restaurants sampled, so it is not carried everywhere.

377 restaurants at $4.19–$4.38519 restaurants at $4.38–$4.58942 restaurants at $4.58–$4.771025 restaurants at $4.77–$4.961024 restaurants at $4.96–$5.151278 restaurants at $5.15–$5.351007 restaurants at $5.35–$5.54909 restaurants at $5.54–$5.73868 restaurants at $5.73–$5.93660 restaurants at $5.93–$6.12516 restaurants at $6.12–$6.31288 restaurants at $6.31–$6.50154 restaurants at $6.50–$6.70604 restaurants at $6.70 and above$4.19$6.70+

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.

$3.79cheapest sampled — Galveston, TX
$8.57most expensive sampled — Windsor Locks, MA

The cheapest Steak & Egg McMuffin® in the sample is $3.79 in Galveston, TX, and the most expensive is $8.57 in Windsor Locks, 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
UT$4.1969cheapest
ID$4.3936cheapest
LA$4.59190cheapest
TX$4.69958cheapest
VT$7.1913most expensive
NH$7.1949most expensive
HI$7.095most expensive
AK$6.9019most expensive

What it has cost since we started watching

225 of the 10,174 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-01. Where it moved, the typical change was +4.0%. A typical one now charges $5.29.

$5.29$5.39$5.492026-09-01 - $5.49 - median of 388 restaurants2026-09-02 - $5.49 - median of 388 restaurants2026-09-03 - $5.29 - median of 10,141 restaurants2026-09-04 - $5.29 - median of 10,148 restaurants2026-09-05 - $5.29 - median of 10,159 restaurants2026-09-06 - $5.29 - median of 10,160 restaurants2026-09-07 - $5.29 - median of 10,160 restaurants2026-09-08 - $5.29 - median of 10,160 restaurants2026-09-09 - $5.29 - median of 10,160 restaurants2026-09-10 - $5.29 - median of 10,160 restaurants2026-09-11 - $5.29 - median of 10,161 restaurants2026-09-12 - $5.29 - median of 10,161 restaurants2026-09-13 - $5.29 - median of 10,161 restaurants2026-09-14 - $5.29 - median of 10,162 restaurants2026-09-15 - $5.29 - median of 10,162 restaurants2026-09-16 - $5.29 - median of 10,162 restaurants2026-09-17 - $5.29 - median of 10,162 restaurants2026-09-18 - $5.29 - median of 10,164 restaurants2026-09-19 - $5.29 - median of 10,164 restaurants2026-09-20 - $5.29 - median of 10,165 restaurants2026-09-21 - $5.29 - median of 10,165 restaurants2026-09-22 - $5.29 - median of 10,165 restaurants2026-09-23 - $5.29 - median of 10,167 restaurants2026-09-24 - $5.29 - median of 10,167 restaurants2026-09-25 - $5.29 - median of 10,174 restaurants2026-09-26 - $5.29 - median of 10,174 restaurants2026-09-012026-09-26

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.

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Priced like this at McDonald's

The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Steak & Egg McMuffin®’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.

ItemMedianSpreadRestaurants
3 Piece McCrispy™ Strips$5.2929%12,234
Sausage, Egg & Cheese McGriddles®$5.2935%12,233
Spicy McCrispy™$5.2937%12,232
Quarter Pounder® Hamburger$5.2939%8,258
Triple Cheeseburger$5.1934%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.