Chicken, roasting, oven-ready, fresh · per kg · 2008 Verified
£2.88in June 2008 — about £5.53 in today's money.
- Price in 2008£2.88
- Same money today£5.53
- Estimated price today · projected from January 2025£3.96
- Change since 2008+38%
Priced in working time
- A week's pay in 2008 bought · average weekly earnings were £433.00150 × kg
- A week's pay today buys · at £749.00 (2026) · price estimated189 × kg
Observed price divided by the observed wage for the same year — nothing here is back-cast. See the average earnings record →
Price history
Record & method
This is an observed price. The Office for National Statistics recorded it in June 2008; we have not adjusted the figure.
- Source
- Office for National Statistics (ONS), dataset MM23. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Series title
- RPI: Ave price - Chicken: roasting, ovn ready, frsh/chilld, Kg
- Series
- CZOM
- Observed
- June 2008
- Coverage
- January 1967 – January 2025
- Adjusted by
- CDKO · 855.3 → 1643.1 (June 2026)
- License
- Open Government Licence v3.0
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