About 20 cents.
Rather than ask the cost, it is more meaningful to ask "Wow long did a person have to work to earn enough to buy a dozen eggs?".In the early 1940 the average pay was less than 50 cents an hour. Eggs were about 49 cents/dozen. his means you'd have to work an hour to buy a dozen eggs. In America in 2017 minimum wage is about 8$/hr and eggs about 3$/dozen. You have to work half an hour to buy a dozen eggs.
A dozen eggs in 1912 cost only $0.40 for one dozen
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A dozen eggs
The cost for a dozen eggs were $0.62
The average cost for a dozen eggs in the US in 1975 was about .75 cents.
In 1970 a dozen of fresh eggs cost only 62 cents. Therefore, six fresh eggs would have only cost 31 cents in 1970.
I believe the average cost of a dozen eggs in 1975 was around $2.95 - $3.00.
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Depending on the size of the eggs, from regular to jumbo, eggs cost between $1.75 and $2.99 per dozen in 2011.
13 cents a dozen