Grocery Prices
Meat & Poultry prices
U.S. city average · June 2026
Meat & Poultry price snapshot
The meat & poultry group covers bacon, beef roast, chicken breast, chicken legs, chicken, ground beef, ham, pork chops and steak — 9 staples Basket Report prices each month at the U.S. city average from Bureau of Labor Statistics data. In June 2026 they ran from chicken legs at $1.69 per pound up to steak at $12.88 per pound, with 7 items costing more than a month earlier and 2 items costing less.
The biggest monthly increase came from pork chops, up 6.7%. Going the other way, chicken legs fell 5.5%. Over the past year beef roast stands out, up 15.0% from twelve months ago.
These are unadjusted BLS shelf averages — never estimates — and each one feeds the fixed-weight Grocery Basket Price Index. Bacon carries the longest record, charted monthly back to January 1980; open any row for its history, or check the latest meat & poultry move on the Receipt.
| Item | Unit | Price | MoM | YoY | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bacon, sliced | pound | $6.56 | ▼ 2.3% | ▼ 7.6% | |
| Beef Roast | pound | $9.43 | ▲ 1.6% | ▲ 15.0% | |
| Chicken breast, boneless | pound | $4.18 | ▲ 0.2% | ▼ 1.4% | |
| Chicken Legs | pound | $1.69 | ▼ 5.5% | ▼ 7.0% | |
| Chicken, fresh, whole | pound | $2.04 | ▲ 0.4% | ▼ 2.0% | |
| Ground beef, 100% beef | pound | $6.83 | ▲ 1.2% | ▲ 11.5% | |
| Ham, boneless, excluding canned | pound | $5.51 | ▲ 0.9% | ▲ 2.4% | |
| Pork chops, center cut, bone-in | pound | $4.91 | ▲ 6.7% | ▲ 8.9% | |
| Steak | pound | $12.88 | ▲ 0.6% | ▲ 12.1% |
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, CPI Average Price Data, series listed on each item page. Retrieved August 1, 2026 via the BLS Public Data API. Download the full directory as CSV or JSON. BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.