$100 in 1924 is worth $195 in 1967,
because prices increased 95.3% over that period, an average of
1.57% a year.
$100 in 1924 has
the same buying power as
$195
in 1967
Detailed inflation statistics
Cumulative price change
95.3%
Average inflation rate
1.57% per year
Converted amount ($100 base)
$195
Price difference ($100 base)
$95.32
CPI in 1924
17.1
CPI in 1967
33.4
Inflation in 1924
0.00%
Inflation in 1967
3.09%
$100 in 1924 → 1967
$195
$100 in 1967 → 1924
$51.20
What happened to prices between 1924 and 1967
Between 1924 and 1967, the Consumer Price Index went from 17.1 to 33.4.
Cumulatively, prices increased 95.3%, which works out to an average of
1.57% per year. Put differently, a dollar in 1924 bought what
$0.51 buys in 1967: the 1924 dollar
lost 48.8% of its purchasing power over
these 43 years.
Consumer prices held flat in 1924, the CPI’s annual average unchanged from
1923 after swinging from a sharp postwar drop to a modest rise the year
before. That stability, extending the calm that had settled in after the
deflation of 1921 and 1922, became a defining feature of the rest of the
decade. Congress tightened immigration policy further with the Immigration
Act of 1924, signed May 26, which cut the national-origins quota from 3% of
each nationality’s 1910 census population to 2% of its 1890 population,
shifting admissions further toward northern and western Europe and
effectively excluding most immigration from Asia. Abroad, the U.S.-backed
Dawes Plan, adopted that August, reorganized Germany’s war reparations
payments and opened the way for American loans into the German economy,
helping stabilize European currencies after the hyperinflation that had
peaked in 1923. At home, Calvin Coolidge, who had served out
the remainder of Warren Harding’s term after his death the previous year,
won a full term of his own that November, campaigning on continued
prosperity and limited government. First-class postage remained at 2 cents,
a price unchanged since mid-1919.
Every 1924 amount converts to 1967 at the same ratio, 1.95: $1,000 becomes
$1,953, and $10,000 becomes $19,532.
Amount in 1924
Value in 1967
$1.00
$1.95
$5.00
$9.77
$10.00
$19.53
$20.00
$39.06
$50.00
$97.66
$100
$195
$500
$977
$1,000
$1,953
$5,000
$9,766
$10,000
$19,532
$100,000
$195,322
$1,000,000
$1,953,216
Inflation by spending category, 1924–1967
Between 1924 and 1967, food rose the most, up 124.3%, while apparel rose the least, up 90.3%, against 95.3% for all items. The headline number is an average; here is what $100 of 1924
spending costs in 1967, by category:
Category
Avg. yearly inflation
$100 in 1924 →
All items (CPI-U)
1.57%
$195
Food
1.90%
$224
Apparel
1.51%
$190
Not shown because the BLS began these indexes after 1924: core (all items less food & energy) (1957–), energy (1957–), housing (1967–), medical care (1935–), transportation (1935–), recreation (1993–), education & communication (1993–).
Decade by decade: 1924 to 1967
Prices climbed fastest in the 1940s, averaging 5.58% a year, and fell in the 1930s (1.7% a year). Each step below chains into the full 1924–1967 change:
Years
Avg. yearly inflation
Price change
$100 from 1924, at end
1924–1930
-0.39%
-2.3%
$97.66
1930–1940
-1.75%
-16.2%
$81.87
1940–1950
5.58%
72.1%
$141
1950–1960
2.08%
22.8%
$173
1960–1967
1.74%
12.8%
$195
Year by year: CPI and the value of $100 from 1924
$100 from 1924 had already become $114 by
1946, on its way to $195 in 1967; each row shows the CPI, that
year's inflation rate, and the running value.
Within the span, inflation peaked at 14.4% in 1947, and prices fell 9.9% in 1932, the deepest deflation of the period.
Long periods are sampled every 2 years; the calculator above covers any pair of years.
The destination year: 1967
In 1967, prices rose 3.1% and $100 from 1924 had the buying
power of $195; the year's average CPI of 33.4 is the level
behind every 1967 figure on this page.
Consumer prices rose 3.1% in 1967, up from 1966’s 2.9% as
Vietnam War spending kept climbing alongside expanding Great Society
programs, a combination of rising military and domestic outlays that
economists later blamed for entrenching inflation through the rest of the
decade. The minimum wage rose that February 1, to $1.40 an hour, the
first step of a phased increase Congress had set the year before. Urban
unrest reached a peak that July, when days of rioting left 26 dead in
Newark and 43 dead in Detroit, the deadliest of that summer’s roughly 160
disturbances; Johnson responded by forming the Kerner Commission to study
the causes of the unrest. The Supreme Court gained its first Black
justice that year too: the Senate confirmed Thurgood Marshall on August
30, and he was sworn in that October after serving as U.S. Solicitor
General and, before that, as the lead attorney in Brown v. Board of
Education. Consumer prices finished 1967 237.4% above their
1913 level. First-class postage held at 5 cents.
MLA: “Inflation from 1924 to 1967: $100 is worth $195 today.” InflationCalculator.com, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data, https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1924-to-1967/
APA: InflationCalculator.com. Inflation from 1924 to 1967. Based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data. Retrieved from https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1924-to-1967/