The invention discloses a method for recycling copper, silver and gold step by step by using a waste printed circuit board. The method comprises the following steps: a, pretreatment of the waste printed circuit board: a, crushing of the waste printed circuit board; b, mixing copper sulfate with a saturated sodium chloride solution, adding the circuit board powder, stirring for reaction, and filtering; c, filtering the filtrate in the step b into deionized water, and standing and precipitating to obtain cuprous chloride; d, adding the gold and silver enriched slag obtained in the step b into an ammonia solution, stirring and leaching, and filtering to obtain a silver solution and gold enriched slag; and e, adding the gold-enriched slag obtained in the step d into a Cu < 2 + >-NH3-Na2S2O3 mixed solution, stirring and leaching to obtain a gold solution. According to the method, copper in the waste circuit board is converted into cuprous chloride in the cuprous chloride synthesis process, meanwhile, enrichment of Ag and Au is achieved, step-by-step recycling of copper, gold and silver is achieved, and the method is a simple and environment-friendly method for recycling valuable metal from the waste circuit board.