$100 in 1926 is worth $98.31 in 1927,
because prices declined 1.7% over that period, an average of
1.69% a year.
$100 in 1926 has
the same buying power as
$98.31
in 1927
Detailed inflation statistics
Cumulative price change
-1.7%
Average inflation rate
-1.69% per year
Converted amount ($100 base)
$98.31
Price difference ($100 base)
-$1.69
CPI in 1926
17.7
CPI in 1927
17.4
Inflation in 1926
1.14%
Inflation in 1927
-1.69%
$100 in 1926 → 1927
$98.31
$100 in 1927 → 1926
$102
What happened to prices between 1926 and 1927
Between 1926 and 1927, the Consumer Price Index went from 17.7 to 17.4.
Cumulatively, prices declined 1.7%, which works out to an average of
-1.69% per year. Put differently, a dollar in 1926 bought what
$1.02 buys in 1927: the 1926 dollar
gained 1.7% in purchasing power over
these 1 years.
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.
Every 1926 amount converts to 1927 at the same ratio, 0.98: $1,000 becomes
$983, and $10,000 becomes $9,831.
Amount in 1926
Value in 1927
$1.00
$0.98
$5.00
$4.92
$10.00
$9.83
$20.00
$19.66
$50.00
$49.15
$100
$98.31
$500
$492
$1,000
$983
$5,000
$4,915
$10,000
$9,831
$100,000
$98,305
$1,000,000
$983,051
Inflation by spending category, 1926–1927
Every category fell between 1926 and 1927: food the most, down 3.5%, and apparel the least, down 2.3%. The headline number is an average; here is what $100 of 1926
spending costs in 1927, by category:
Category
Avg. yearly inflation
$100 in 1926 →
All items (CPI-U)
-1.69%
$98.31
Apparel
-2.32%
$97.68
Food
-3.53%
$96.47
Not shown because the BLS began these indexes after 1926: 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 1926
$100 from 1926shrank to $98.31 by 1927; each row
shows the CPI, that year's inflation rate, and the running value.
In 1927, prices fell 1.7% and $100 from 1926 had the buying
power of $98.31; the year's average CPI of 17.4 is the level
behind every 1927 figure on this page.
Consumer prices fell 1.7% in 1927, a mild retreat after three years of
gradual increases and part of a shallow up-and-down pattern that ran through
the second half of the decade. Aviation delivered the year’s signature
moment: Charles Lindbergh departed Roosevelt Field, New York, on May 20 and
landed at Le Bourget Field outside Paris roughly 33.5 hours later, the first
person to fly the Atlantic solo and nonstop. Detroit closed a chapter of its
own that May, when Ford halted the Model T’s production line after nearly 19
years and more than 15 million cars sold, idling tens of thousands of
workers while its factories retooled for the Model A. The Federal Reserve,
meeting with European central bankers that summer, cut its discount rate to
ease pressure on currencies still recovering from the war, a move later
cited by economists including Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz as fuel for
the stock market speculation that built through the following two years.
First-class postage held at 2 cents.
MLA: “Inflation from 1926 to 1927: $100 is worth $98.31 today.” InflationCalculator.com, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data, https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1926-to-1927/
APA: InflationCalculator.com. Inflation from 1926 to 1927. Based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data. Retrieved from https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1926-to-1927/