$100 in 1924 is worth $1,883 in 2025,
because prices increased 1782.7% over that period, an average of
2.95% a year.
$100 in 1924 has
the same buying power as
$1,883
in 2025
Detailed inflation statistics
Cumulative price change
1782.7%
Average inflation rate
2.95% per year
Converted amount ($100 base)
$1,883
Price difference ($100 base)
$1,783
CPI in 1924
17.1
CPI in 2025
321.943
Inflation in 1924
0.00%
Inflation in 2025
2.63%
$100 in 1924 → 2025
$1,883
$100 in 2025 → 1924
$5.31
What happened to prices between 1924 and 2025
Between 1924 and 2025, the Consumer Price Index went from 17.1 to 321.943.
Cumulatively, prices increased 1782.7%, which works out to an average of
2.95% per year. Put differently, a dollar in 1924 bought what
$0.05 buys in 2025: the 1924 dollar
lost 94.7% of its purchasing power over
these 101 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 2025 at the same ratio, 18.83: $1,000 becomes
$18,827, and $10,000 becomes $188,271.
Amount in 1924
Value in 2025
$1.00
$18.83
$5.00
$94.14
$10.00
$188
$20.00
$377
$50.00
$941
$100
$1,883
$500
$9,414
$1,000
$18,827
$5,000
$94,135
$10,000
$188,271
$100,000
$1,882,708
$1,000,000
$18,827,076
Inflation by spending category, 1924–2025
Between 1924 and 2025, food rose the most, up 2133.6%, while apparel rose the least, up 390.0%, against 1782.7% for all items. The headline number is an average; here is what $100 of 1924
spending costs in 2025, by category:
Category
Avg. yearly inflation
$100 in 1924 →
All items (CPI-U)
2.95%
$1,883
Food
3.12%
$2,234
Apparel
1.59%
$490
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 2025
Prices climbed fastest in the 1970s, averaging 7.82% a year, and fell in the 1930s (1.7% a year). Each step below chains into the full 1924–2025 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
1960–1970
2.74%
31.1%
$227
1970–1980
7.82%
112.4%
$482
1980–1990
4.72%
58.6%
$764
1990–2000
2.80%
31.8%
$1,007
2000–2010
2.39%
26.6%
$1,275
2010–2020
1.73%
18.7%
$1,514
2020–2025
4.46%
24.4%
$1,883
Year by year: CPI and the value of $100 from 1924
$100 from 1924 had already become $288 by
1974, on its way to $1,883 in 2025; 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 5 years; the calculator above covers any pair of years.
The destination year: 2025
In 2025, prices rose 2.6% and $100 from 1924 had the buying
power of $1,883; 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 1924 to 2025: $100 is worth $1,883 today.” InflationCalculator.com, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data, https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1924-to-2025/
APA: InflationCalculator.com. Inflation from 1924 to 2025. Based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data. Retrieved from https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1924-to-2025/