--- title: Chicken Wing Prices Are Falling Just in Time for the Super Bowl description: Chicken wing prices are down to $2.62 per pound ahead of the 2023 Super Bowl. Unfortunately, beer prices are higher lately. authors: - name: Pete Grieve role: Lead News Reporter url: https://money.com/author/pete-grieve/ bio: Pete Grieve is a personal finance reporter. In his time at Money, Pete has covered everything from car buying to credit cards to the housing market. education: University of Chicago, BA Political Science at_money_since: 2022 articles: 600 covers: - Shopping - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Debt - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Professional Services - Retirement - Taxes social: - https://twitter.com/pete_grieve - https://linkedin.com/in/pete-grieve-b5aa02138 - https://www.facebook.com/petegrieve4 editors: - name: Brad Tuttle role: Senior Editor url: https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/ bio: Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals. education: Columbia University School of Journalism, MS at_money_since: 2014 articles: 366 covers: - Shopping - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Retirement - Taxes - Technology social: - https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle - https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225 former_staff: true published: '2023-02-02T18:02:51.000Z' modified: '2024-01-10T13:38:27.000Z' section: Shopping tags: - Food - groceries - News word_count: 429 canonical: https://money.com/chicken-wing-prices-2023-super-bowl/ type: NewsArticle source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Photo collage of a hand reaching for a chicken wing on a plate, with a blue background blue](https://img.money.com/2023/02/News-Price-Drop-Chicken-Wings.jpg) Hosting for the big game will likely cost less this year, at least if you're planning to serve chicken wings — and is a Super Bowl party really a Super Bowl party without them? Fresh chicken wings are running about $2.62 per pound at supermarkets, down from $2.98 a year ago, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s [weekly price report](https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/pywretailchicken.pdf). Inflation-weary shoppers are certainly [overdue for some price relief](https://money.com/food-prices-inflation-snacks-oreos/) after experiencing [sticker shock on groceries](https://money.com/grocery-prices-biggest-increase-1979-inflation/) for more than a year. ## What experts say Wing prices are lower because poultry producers have increased chicken supply to the highest levels since early 2019, according to Michael Swanson, chief agricultural economist at Wells Fargo. This may seem surprising considering that [egg prices have soared](https://money.com/egg-prices-higher-than-gas-costs/) due to bird flu outbreaks, but the chickens we eat aren't nearly as vulnerable to the disease as chickens that lay eggs due to different farming styles. While wing prices will likely rise in the next 10 days as demand picks up ahead of the game, Swanson [reports](https://global.wf.com/hub_blog/wells-fargo-reveals-top-pick-super-bowl-poultry-producers-score-early-wings-22/) that current chicken wing prices are about 22% lower than the prices during Super Bowl week last year. - The National Chicken Council is [forecasting](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/as-prices-ease-americans-projected-to-eat-1-45-billion-chicken-wings-for-super-bowl-lvii-301736210.html) that Americans will eat 84 million more chicken wings during this Super Bowl weekend than they ate last year, bringing the total to 1.45 billion. - “The two main reasons are more favorable prices and more people getting back to normal and gathering for the big game, whether at home or at a bar/restaurant,” says Tom Super, a spokesperson for the council. - Beyond wings, party hosts will also likely save on avocados for guacamole, Swanson says, explaining that prices are down 20% from last year thanks to a strong crop year. And sirloin steak prices have dropped in the past year from $11.06 per pound to $10.17 per pound, he adds. ## On the other hand Not everyone’s Super Bowl party will cost less this year. Beer prices have increased by 11% in the past year, and hamburgers are also “slightly” more expensive, according to Wells Fargo. Overall, grocery prices are up 11.8% in the past year, according to the “food at home” index in the latest [consumer price index](https://money.com/things-getting-more-expensive-inflation/) report. ## Bottom Line Last year, high food prices added to the stress of trying to host the perfect Super Bowl party, but if you're serving wings and guac, costs could be lower this year. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/chicken-wing-prices-2023-super-bowl/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Shopping", "item": "https://money.com/shopping/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Food and Drink", "item": "https://money.com/food-and-drink/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Chicken Wing Prices Are Falling Just in Time for the Super Bowl" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/chicken-wing-prices-2023-super-bowl/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/chicken-wing-prices-2023-super-bowl/", "name": "Chicken Wing Prices Are Falling Just in Time for the Super Bowl", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2023-02-02T18:02:51.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/chicken-wing-prices-2023-super-bowl/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/chicken-wing-prices-2023-super-bowl/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-01-10T13:38:27.000Z" }, { "@type": "NewsArticle", "headline": "Chicken Wing Prices Are Falling Just in Time for the Super Bowl", "articleSection": "Shopping", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2023/02/News-Price-Drop-Chicken-Wings.jpg", "width": 2700, "height": 1800, "caption": "News-Price-Drop-Chicken-Wings" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Pete Grieve", "url": "https://money.com/author/pete-grieve/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/pete-grieve/#author", "description": "Pete Grieve is a personal finance reporter. 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