$100 in 1913 is worth $3,252 in 2025,
because prices increased 3151.9% over that period, an average of
3.16% a year.
$100 in 1913 has
the same buying power as
$3,252
in 2025
Detailed inflation statistics
Cumulative price change
3151.9%
Average inflation rate
3.16% per year
Converted amount ($100 base)
$3,252
Price difference ($100 base)
$3,152
CPI in 1913
9.9
CPI in 2025
321.943
Inflation in 1913
n/a
Inflation in 2025
2.63%
$100 in 1913 → 2025
$3,252
$100 in 2025 → 1913
$3.08
What happened to prices between 1913 and 2025
Between 1913 and 2025, the Consumer Price Index went from 9.9 to 321.943.
Cumulatively, prices increased 3151.9%, which works out to an average of
3.16% per year. Put differently, a dollar in 1913 bought what
$0.03 buys in 2025: the 1913 dollar
lost 96.9% of its purchasing power over
these 112 years.
1913 is where this site’s price history begins, because it’s where the Bureau of Labor
Statistics’ own consumer price data begins. The CPI wasn’t published in real time back then;
the BLS built the earliest index retroactively from retail price records collected starting
in 1913, which makes every dollar figure on this site ultimately anchored to that year’s
prices. It was also the year the machinery of modern federal economic policy was built. The
16th Amendment, ratified in February, cleared the constitutional path for a federal income
tax, and the Revenue Act that followed in October imposed a top rate of just 7% on income
above $500,000, a narrow tax that would later be reshaped into the broad-based system that
funds the government today. In December, Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act, creating
the central bank that would eventually take on fighting inflation as one of its core jobs,
including the 19%-plus interest rates it deployed against the 1970s and early 1980s
price surge. Consumer life in 1913 was correspondingly simple by later
standards: a first-class stamp cost 2 cents, a price that held from 1885 all the way to
1917, and the Ford Motor Company introduced the moving assembly line at its Highland Park
plant that year, a manufacturing breakthrough that would spend the next decade driving down
the cost of a car faster than prices elsewhere were rising.
Every 1913 amount converts to 2025 at the same ratio, 32.52: $1,000 becomes
$32,519, and $10,000 becomes $325,195.
Amount in 1913
Value in 2025
$1.00
$32.52
$5.00
$163
$10.00
$325
$20.00
$650
$50.00
$1,626
$100
$3,252
$500
$16,260
$1,000
$32,519
$5,000
$162,597
$10,000
$325,195
$100,000
$3,251,949
$1,000,000
$32,519,495
Inflation by spending category, 1913–2025
The headline number is an average; here is what $100 of 1913
spending costs in 2025, by category:
Category
Avg. yearly inflation
$100 in 1913 →
All items (CPI-U)
3.16%
$3,252
Food
3.20%
$3,395
Not shown because the BLS began these indexes after 1913: core (all items less food & energy) (1957–), energy (1957–), housing (1967–), medical care (1935–), apparel (1914–), transportation (1935–), recreation (1993–), education & communication (1993–).
Decade by decade: 1913 to 2025
Prices climbed fastest in the 1910s, averaging 10.57% a year, and fell in the 1920s (1.8% a year). Each step below chains into the full 1913–2025 change:
Years
Avg. yearly inflation
Price change
$100 from 1913, at end
1913–1920
10.57%
102.0%
$202
1920–1930
-1.79%
-16.5%
$169
1930–1940
-1.75%
-16.2%
$141
1940–1950
5.58%
72.1%
$243
1950–1960
2.08%
22.8%
$299
1960–1970
2.74%
31.1%
$392
1970–1980
7.82%
112.4%
$832
1980–1990
4.72%
58.6%
$1,320
1990–2000
2.80%
31.8%
$1,739
2000–2010
2.39%
26.6%
$2,203
2010–2020
1.73%
18.7%
$2,614
2020–2025
4.46%
24.4%
$3,252
Year by year: CPI and the value of $100 from 1913
$100 from 1913 had already become $352 by
1968, on its way to $3,252 in 2025; each row shows the CPI, that
year's inflation rate, and the running value.
Within the span, inflation peaked at 18.0% in 1918, and prices fell 10.5% in 1921, the deepest deflation of the period.
Long periods are sampled every 5 years; the calculator above covers any pair of years.
The destination year: 2025
In 2025, prices rose 2.6% and $100 from 1913 had the buying
power of $3,252; the year's average CPI of 321.943 is the level
behind every 2025 figure on this page.
2025 was a year of trade policy and data disruptions rather than an
inflation surge. Consumer prices rose 2.6% on average, a step down from
2024’s 2.9% and well below the 8.0% of 2022. Tariffs announced in April
pushed up prices for some imported goods, including furniture, apparel, and
auto parts, but the effect on the overall index was smaller than many
forecasters feared at the start of the year, in part because retailers
absorbed some of the cost and demand for services stayed steady.
The Federal Reserve held its policy rate steady through the first half of the
year, then began cutting again in September, lowering it in three quarter-point
steps to 3.50–3.75% by December.
The federal government shutdown that began October 1 lasted 43 days, and the
Bureau of Labor Statistics did not publish a CPI for October 2025 because the
survey data could not be collected. The federal minimum wage stayed at $7.25,
and a first-class stamp rose to 78 cents in July.
MLA: “Inflation from 1913 to 2025: $100 is worth $3,252 today.” InflationCalculator.com, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data, https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1913-to-2025/
APA: InflationCalculator.com. Inflation from 1913 to 2025. Based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data. Retrieved from https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1913-to-2025/