Value of a Dollar Calculator
What one dollar from any year is worth today.
Works in your browser. Nothing you type is sent to us.
The same amount from each decade, at the later date
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Value of a Dollar Calculator at a glance
- Price
- Free
- Data sent to us
- None, it runs in your browser
- Sign-up
- Not needed
- Data
- BLS CPI-U, 1913 to September 2026
- Gives
- Value today, total and yearly inflation
- Also
- Any two years, both directions
How to use Value of a Dollar Calculator
- Type the amountType a dollar amount, such as 100.
- Pick the yearsChoose the year the money is from, and today or another year to compare.
- Read the valueSee what it is worth, the total change in prices and the average yearly rate.
The calculator is set to one dollar from 1950: about $13.98 in September 2026 money. Pick any year since 1913, and the table below lists a dollar from every decade since the 1920s in today's money.
How it works
Value of a Dollar Calculator is a web page that does its work on your own device. Everything you type or choose is worked out by your browser and never sent to a server, so nothing is stored and there is nothing to delete. There is no account, no sign-up and no limit on how often you use it.
Reading old prices
To compare an old price with today's, put the old price in as the amount. A 25-cent cup of coffee in 1960 is about $2.85 in September 2026 money.
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