$100 in 1925 is worth $101 in 1926,
because prices increased 1.1% over that period, an average of
1.14% a year.
$100 in 1925 has
the same buying power as
$101
in 1926
Detailed inflation statistics
Cumulative price change
1.1%
Average inflation rate
1.14% per year
Converted amount ($100 base)
$101
Price difference ($100 base)
$1.14
CPI in 1925
17.5
CPI in 1926
17.7
Inflation in 1925
2.34%
Inflation in 1926
1.14%
$100 in 1925 → 1926
$101
$100 in 1926 → 1925
$98.87
What happened to prices between 1925 and 1926
Between 1925 and 1926, the Consumer Price Index went from 17.5 to 17.7.
Cumulatively, prices increased 1.1%, which works out to an average of
1.14% per year. Put differently, a dollar in 1925 bought what
$0.99 buys in 1926: the 1925 dollar
lost 1.1% of its purchasing power over
these 1 years.
Consumer prices rose 2.3% in 1925, the CPI’s largest single-year increase
since the deflationary swings of the early 1920s, though still mild next to
the double-digit inflation of the World War I years. The country’s cultural
fault lines were on full display that summer in Dayton, Tennessee, where
high school teacher John Scopes was tried July 10-21 for violating a state
law against teaching evolution, a case that drew national press coverage and
pitted prosecutor William Jennings Bryan against defense attorney Clarence
Darrow. Real estate speculation, meanwhile, peaked in Florida, where buyers
flipped undeveloped land in the Miami area on thin down payments, driving
prices far above what the land itself could support; the bubble would
collapse the following year. Detroit reshuffled that June too: Walter
Chrysler reorganized the struggling Maxwell Motor Company into Chrysler
Corporation, the start of what would become one of the American auto
industry’s “Big Three.” First-class postage held at 2 cents for the sixth
straight year.
Every 1925 amount converts to 1926 at the same ratio, 1.01: $1,000 becomes
$1,011, and $10,000 becomes $10,114.
Amount in 1925
Value in 1926
$1.00
$1.01
$5.00
$5.06
$10.00
$10.11
$20.00
$20.23
$50.00
$50.57
$100
$101
$500
$506
$1,000
$1,011
$5,000
$5,057
$10,000
$10,114
$100,000
$101,143
$1,000,000
$1,011,429
Inflation by spending category, 1925–1926
Between 1925 and 1926, food rose the most, up 3.0%, while apparel fell 1.5%, against 1.1% for all items. The headline number is an average; here is what $100 of 1925
spending costs in 1926, by category:
Category
Avg. yearly inflation
$100 in 1925 →
All items (CPI-U)
1.14%
$101
Food
3.03%
$103
Apparel
-1.52%
$98.48
Not shown because the BLS began these indexes after 1925: core (all items less food & energy) (1957–), energy (1957–), housing (1967–), medical care (1935–), transportation (1935–), recreation (1993–), education & communication (1993–).
Year by year: CPI and the value of $100 from 1925
$100 from 1925grew to $101 by 1926; each row
shows the CPI, that year's inflation rate, and the running value.
In 1926, prices rose 1.1% and $100 from 1925 had the buying
power of $101; the year's average CPI of 17.7 is the level
behind every 1926 figure on this page.
Consumer prices rose 1.1% in 1926, a third straight year of mild inflation
and part of the price stability that defined the middle of the decade.
Florida’s real estate boom, which had peaked the previous year on
speculative buying of undeveloped land, ended abruptly that September when
the Great Miami Hurricane made landfall near the city, killing hundreds and
wrecking the market for land whose value had rested on continued
speculation rather than anything underneath it. In Detroit, Henry Ford moved
his company to a five-day, 40-hour work week without cutting pay, a break
from the standard six-day schedule that other large employers would
gradually adopt over the following decades; Ford argued publicly that
workers with more leisure time would also become better customers for the
cars his factories built. Consumer prices remained low enough by historical
standards that a first-class stamp still cost just 2 cents, the same price
it had held since mid-1919.
MLA: “Inflation from 1925 to 1926: $100 is worth $101 today.” InflationCalculator.com, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data, https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1925-to-1926/
APA: InflationCalculator.com. Inflation from 1925 to 1926. Based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data. Retrieved from https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1925-to-1926/