$100 in 1933 is worth $2,476 in 2025,
because prices increased 2376.5% over that period, an average of
3.55% a year.
$100 in 1933 has
the same buying power as
$2,476
in 2025
Detailed inflation statistics
Cumulative price change
2376.5%
Average inflation rate
3.55% per year
Converted amount ($100 base)
$2,476
Price difference ($100 base)
$2,376
CPI in 1933
13
CPI in 2025
321.943
Inflation in 1933
-5.11%
Inflation in 2025
2.63%
$100 in 1933 → 2025
$2,476
$100 in 2025 → 1933
$4.04
What happened to prices between 1933 and 2025
Between 1933 and 2025, the Consumer Price Index went from 13 to 321.943.
Cumulatively, prices increased 2376.5%, which works out to an average of
3.55% per year. Put differently, a dollar in 1933 bought what
$0.04 buys in 2025: the 1933 dollar
lost 96.0% of its purchasing power over
these 92 years.
Consumer prices fell 5.1% in 1933, a smaller decline than 1932’s
but enough to complete a four-year slide of 24.0% from the 1929
peak. The National Bureau of Economic Research dates the trough of that
contraction to March 1933, closing out the longest downturn in its
chronology, one that had run 43 months since August 1929. The bottom
arrived alongside a change in government: Franklin D. Roosevelt was
inaugurated March 4 and, within 48 hours, ordered every bank in the country
closed to halt a fresh round of runs. Congress passed the Emergency Banking
Act on March 9, letting solvent banks reopen under federal supervision, and
the panic that had been building for months broke almost immediately. The
administration moved on the currency next: Executive Order 6102, issued
April 5, required Americans to turn in most gold coin, bullion, and
certificates to the Federal Reserve, taking the country off the domestic
gold standard (formal devaluation of the dollar followed the next January).
Congress capped the year’s banking overhaul in June with the Banking Act of
1933, commonly called Glass-Steagall, which created the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation and separated commercial banking from investment
banking. Even after four straight years of falling prices, the CPI still
stood 31.3% above its 1913 level. First-class postage held at
3 cents.
Every 1933 amount converts to 2025 at the same ratio, 24.76: $1,000 becomes
$24,765, and $10,000 becomes $247,648.
Amount in 1933
Value in 2025
$1.00
$24.76
$5.00
$124
$10.00
$248
$20.00
$495
$50.00
$1,238
$100
$2,476
$500
$12,382
$1,000
$24,765
$5,000
$123,824
$10,000
$247,648
$100,000
$2,476,485
$1,000,000
$24,764,846
Inflation by spending category, 1933–2025
Between 1933 and 2025, food rose the most, up 3164.5%, while apparel rose the least, up 598.5%, against 2376.5% for all items. The headline number is an average; here is what $100 of 1933
spending costs in 2025, by category:
Category
Avg. yearly inflation
$100 in 1933 →
All items (CPI-U)
3.55%
$2,476
Food
3.86%
$3,265
Apparel
2.14%
$698
Not shown because the BLS began these indexes after 1933: core (all items less food & energy) (1957–), energy (1957–), housing (1967–), medical care (1935–), transportation (1935–), recreation (1993–), education & communication (1993–).
Decade by decade: 1933 to 2025
Prices climbed fastest in the 1970s, averaging 7.82% a year, and slowest in the 1930s (1.06% a year). Each step below chains into the full 1933–2025 change:
Years
Avg. yearly inflation
Price change
$100 from 1933, at end
1933–1940
1.06%
7.7%
$108
1940–1950
5.58%
72.1%
$185
1950–1960
2.08%
22.8%
$228
1960–1970
2.74%
31.1%
$298
1970–1980
7.82%
112.4%
$634
1980–1990
4.72%
58.6%
$1,005
1990–2000
2.80%
31.8%
$1,325
2000–2010
2.39%
26.6%
$1,677
2010–2020
1.73%
18.7%
$1,991
2020–2025
4.46%
24.4%
$2,476
Year by year: CPI and the value of $100 from 1933
$100 from 1933 had already become $502 by
1978, on its way to $2,476 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 2.1% in 1938, 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 1933 had the buying
power of $2,476; 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 1933 to 2025: $100 is worth $2,476 today.” InflationCalculator.com, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data, https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1933-to-2025/
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