In 2016, a Greggs sausage roll cost 85p. In 2026, the same pastry from the same bakery chain costs £1.35 on a standard high street. That’s a 59% price increase in a decade — nearly double the rate of UK wage growth over the same period, which came in at around 30%. For a lot of people, that number sits somewhere between mildly alarming and entirely unsurprising.

The Greggs Sausage Roll Inflation Tracker maps this price history against official UK CPI data from the Office for National Statistics, giving a clear visual picture of how Britain’s favourite pastry has outpaced the broader cost of living over ten years. The interactive chart runs year by year from 2016 to 2026, plotting the actual sausage roll price alongside a scaled CPI inflation line so you can see exactly when the two started to diverge.

The salary calculator takes it further. Enter your annual income, choose your store type — standard high street, city centre, or airport — and the tool works out how many sausage rolls your salary could theoretically buy in 2016 versus today. The purchasing power gap is usually sobering. For habitual buyers going five times a week, the tool confirms your annual sausage roll bill is now around £130 higher than it was for the same routine in 2016.

There’s also a dedicated section on the airport premium: at £1.85 versus £1.35 on the high street, franchise outlets at airports and service stations charge 37% more for the same product. Worth knowing before you reach for your wallet at departures.