Food · Single item chart

Chicken breast.

Boneless · per pound · US city average · all available data

A pound of chicken breast vs. official inflation, 1935–2025

Indexed: 1980 = 100, the year all three series converge · Three lines, three measures of inflation: what consumers actually paid (retail), the BLS CPI subindex for this category, and overall CPI-U All Items

Chicken, retail price (BLS APU0000706212, 1980+) Whole chicken, CPI subindex (BLS, 1935+) CPI-U All Items (BLS, 1947+)

Reading the chart. The CPI subindex shown is for whole chicken (BLS CUUR0000SS06011), the longest-running chicken series — boneless breast as a separate retail category only emerges later. The retail dollar series above is specifically boneless skinless breast.