The invention discloses a fatty alcohol ether carboxylic acid preparation method which comprises the following steps: the first step, mixing fatty alcohol ether with deionized water, adding alkali, warming and reacting, then adding a catalyst, keeping pressure under the oxygen environment to react, finishing reacting until oxygen pressure does not change again, extruding a material mixed solutionand generating alcohol ether carboxylate; the second step, performing suction filtration on the mixed solution obtained in the first step to obtain filtrate and filter cake, utilizing deionized waterto wash the filter cake and storing the filter cake in alkali liquor to be applied to the next oxidizing reaction, wherein the filtrate is a fatty alcohol ether carboxylate solution; the third step, adding acid into the filtrate obtained in the second step, warming ad reacting, then adding inorganic salt to be stirred evenly, standing and layering and obtaining fatty alcohol ether carboxylic acidfrom the upper layer. The fatty alcohol ether carboxylic acid preparation method disclosed by the invention has the advantages of simple technological process, production process easy to control, highproduct purity, stable quality, green and environment-friendly production process, quick reaction speed, low energy consumption and more economic production process.