Halloween candy prices have climbed far faster than anything else in your shopping cart, and Hershey's latest earnings report reveals exactly why candy makers have little reason to stop raising prices anytime soon.

Trick-or-treaters arrive tomorrow, and filling the bowl by the front door costs more than it used to. Josh Koebert of FinanceBuzz found that a 100-piece bag of assorted Halloween candy averages $16.96 this year. Koebert says that is $7.05 more than in 2021, Biden’s first Halloween in office, when the same 100 pieces cost $9.91. The increase covers two administrations. The 2021 starting point marks the date.

Koebert puts the rise since 2021 at 71%. Koebert compares that with a 22% national inflation rate, though the study does not say which index that figure comes from. Most of the rise is recent. FinanceBuzz’s chart shows $10.49 in 2022 and $11.61 in 2023, followed by increases to $14.06 in 2024 and $16.39 in 2025. Koebert’s figures show the pace slowing this year, with the bag up 3.5%.…