$100 in 1935 is worth $101 in 1936,
because prices increased 1.5% over that period, an average of
1.46% a year.
$100 in 1935 has
the same buying power as
$101
in 1936
Detailed inflation statistics
Cumulative price change
1.5%
Average inflation rate
1.46% per year
Converted amount ($100 base)
$101
Price difference ($100 base)
$1.46
CPI in 1935
13.7
CPI in 1936
13.9
Inflation in 1935
2.24%
Inflation in 1936
1.46%
$100 in 1935 → 1936
$101
$100 in 1936 → 1935
$98.56
What happened to prices between 1935 and 1936
Between 1935 and 1936, the Consumer Price Index went from 13.7 to 13.9.
Cumulatively, prices increased 1.5%, which works out to an average of
1.46% per year. Put differently, a dollar in 1935 bought what
$0.99 buys in 1936: the 1935 dollar
lost 1.4% of its purchasing power over
these 1 years.
Consumer prices rose 2.2% in 1935, a second straight annual increase after
1934’s turnaround, though the CPI still sat well below its
1929 peak and the recovery remained uneven and incomplete.
The year’s biggest legislative achievements aimed at making that unevenness
less punishing. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act on August 14,
creating federal old-age pensions and unemployment insurance funded by a new
payroll tax, the first federal safety net of its kind in U.S. history. That
spring, the Works Progress Administration had already begun putting millions
of unemployed Americans to work on public construction, arts, and
infrastructure projects, becoming the largest jobs program of the New Deal.
Congress added labor protections to the mix that July with the National
Labor Relations Act, guaranteeing most private-sector workers the right to
organize and bargain collectively. The human cost of the Dust Bowl was still
mounting on the Plains: the storm known as Black Sunday hit on April 14,
one of the worst of the decade, and continued drought kept driving farm
families off land that could no longer support them. Consumer prices ended
the year 38.4% above their 1913 level. First-class postage
held at 3 cents.
Every 1935 amount converts to 1936 at the same ratio, 1.01: $1,000 becomes
$1,015, and $10,000 becomes $10,146.
Amount in 1935
Value in 1936
$1.00
$1.01
$5.00
$5.07
$10.00
$10.15
$20.00
$20.29
$50.00
$50.73
$100
$101
$500
$507
$1,000
$1,015
$5,000
$5,073
$10,000
$10,146
$100,000
$101,460
$1,000,000
$1,014,599
Inflation by spending category, 1935–1936
Between 1935 and 1936, food rose the most, up 1.6%, while medical care rose the least, up 0.0%, against 1.5% for all items. The headline number is an average; here is what $100 of 1935
spending costs in 1936, by category:
Category
Avg. yearly inflation
$100 in 1935 →
All items (CPI-U)
1.46%
$101
Food
1.61%
$102
Apparel
0.96%
$101
Transportation
0.70%
$101
Medical care
0.00%
$100
Not shown because the BLS began these indexes after 1935: core (all items less food & energy) (1957–), energy (1957–), housing (1967–), recreation (1993–), education & communication (1993–).
Year by year: CPI and the value of $100 from 1935
$100 from 1935grew to $101 by 1936; each row
shows the CPI, that year's inflation rate, and the running value.
In 1936, prices rose 1.5% and $100 from 1935 had the buying
power of $101; the year's average CPI of 13.9 is the level
behind every 1936 figure on this page.
Consumer prices rose 1.5% in 1936, a third straight annual increase and part
of a slow, steady climb back from the 1933 trough, though
prices and the broader economy still had not fully recovered to their
pre-Depression levels. Voters delivered their verdict on that recovery in
November, reelecting Franklin D. Roosevelt over Republican Alf Landon in one
of the most lopsided elections in U.S. history: Roosevelt carried 46 of 48
states and won the Electoral College 523 to 8, a broad public endorsement of
the New Deal. Public works kept advancing that year, too. Hoover Dam, one of
the era’s signature projects, had been dedicated in September 1935, but its
first generators did not begin sending electricity over transmission lines
to Los Angeles until October 1936, a milestone that showed how long even a
celebrated project took to reach full operation. Consumer prices ended the
year 40.4% above their 1913 level, still 18.7% below the
1929 peak, a gap that would keep narrowing until a sharp new recession
interrupted the recovery the following year. First-class postage held at 3
cents.
MLA: “Inflation from 1935 to 1936: $100 is worth $101 today.” InflationCalculator.com, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data, https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1935-to-1936/
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