If you’re an egg lover, you know that the cost of a dozen has skyrocketed in recent months. As Fast Company previously reported, depending on where you’re located in America, you could be paying anywhere from around $5 per carton to nearly $9. Gone are the days of cheap eggs.
But just how bad have things gotten, and where will egg prices likely go in the coming year? Two online egg price tracking tools help crack those answers.
Egg price tracking tools
The first online egg price tracking tool comes from TradingEconomics.com. Its “Eggs US” tracker is updated daily and shows how the price of eggs has changed from 2012 to today.
Its prices represent the price of futures contracts for eggs. As the site states, “Prices for Eggs displayed in Trading Economics are based on over-the-counter (OTC) and contract for difference (CFD) financial instruments.”
The tracker’s most recent update shows that the price of a dozen eggs reached $7.09 in January 2025. That’s an increase of over 22%, or $1.28 per dozen, since the beginning of the year.
But the chart also reveals some good news—and bad news. If you click on its forecast tab, it will reveal that it expects the price of a dozen eggs to drop to $6.28 by the end of this quarter.
However, by the end of 2025, it expects a dozen eggs to surpass even today’s high price—topping out at $7.95 per dozen by the end of December.
A second online tool that tracks the price of eggs is from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The tool tracks the average cost of a dozen large Grade A eggs in U.S. cities.
While this egg tracking tool will reveal egg prices going back to 1980, the tool is also only updated monthly, so its egg prices are only current until December 2024, when, it reveals, the average cost of a dozen eggs was just $4.146.
But those who miss the heyday of cheap eggs might want to avoid this tool, lest they are reminded that, with a few exceptions, up until 2021, the price of a dozen eggs rarely broke the $2 barrier.
Why are egg prices skyrocketing?
Both charts reveal that egg prices have skyrocketed since around September 2023. But why? As Fast Company previously reported, three main factors are affecting the cost of eggs.
The first is inflation: Since 2023, the cost of nearly everything has been going up for American consumers.
The second reason is supply chain issues that are partially a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The egg industry continues to suffer from a labor shortage, which hurts production.
The third reason is the ongoing bird flu outbreak, which has led to the demise of tens of millions of the creatures we rely on to lay our eggs.
President Trump has previously promised on the campaign trail to bring down the prices of eggs, but given the challenges the industry faces, it seems like that is easier said than done.
