Egg Price Tracker Screensaver
The Egg Price Tracker screensaver shows the real, live U.S. average retail price of a dozen eggs, tracked over time from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' own published data. It is free, runs in your browser, and ESC exits.
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How the Egg Price Tracker screensaver works
The saver reads the real average U.S. retail price of a dozen eggs from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' own published consumer price series.
The real current price and its real change over the past year are shown alongside a real historical trend line.
The pipeline refreshes the series on the source's own real monthly schedule.
No key is required for the published series.
What the egg price series records
The figure comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US agency that also produces the Consumer Price Index. BLS calculates its average prices from the same price observations it collects for the CPI, so they carry the same sampling and collection errors as the index. The egg series is “Eggs, grade A, large, per doz”, and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis redistributes the monthly values through FRED.
This is an average shelf price, not what a particular shop charges or what producers receive. Egg prices are known for being volatile because supply is inflexible in the short term: a flock cannot be rebuilt in weeks, so a disease outbreak among laying hens, such as avian influenza, can shrink supply quickly and push prices up.
The series is published monthly alongside the CPI release. It is a price level in current dollars, not corrected for inflation, and BLS does not seasonally adjust average prices, so holiday and baking-season swings stay in the line. BLS describes the item as large white chicken eggs sold by the dozen, with organic, cage-free, free-range and conventional eggs all included, so the number blends several price tiers.
A worked example
The real spike in egg prices during a widely reported shortage shows up clearly in the real historical trend line.
Settings & tips
- Accent recolours the trend line.
- The price is a real national average, not a single-store figure.
- The series updates monthly on the source's own real schedule.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this real price data?
- Yes — the real published U.S. average retail egg price from the BLS.
- Is a key needed?
- No. It is a free, public economic data series.
- Why do egg prices spike?
- Real events like avian flu outbreaks have driven real historical spikes in this series.
- Is it free?
- Yes — free, no download, in your browser.
- Is the price the same in every store?
- No. It is a national average built from sampled CPI price observations, and actual prices vary by region, retailer and type of egg.
- Does this include organic or cage-free eggs?
- Yes. BLS says the series covers large white chicken eggs by the dozen, including organic, non-organic, cage-free, free-range and traditional, so it blends them rather than tracking one tier.
- Why is the data monthly rather than daily?
- BLS publishes average prices each month with the CPI release, so the series has one value per month.