How much has inflation changed your buying power?

Compare purchasing power across years using U.S. CPI-based inflation data.

When this calculator is useful

Compare the purchasing power of a dollar amount between two years using the calculator's inflation data.

What to enter

Enter the dollar amount, starting year and ending year.

How to read the result

Inflation-adjusted equivalent estimates what the starting amount corresponds to in the ending year; price-level change and purchasing-power change show how inflation altered value over the period.

Questions worth testing

Compare different starting years, ending years or dollar amounts to see how the inflation effect changes.