$100 in 1967 is worth $765 in 2019,
because prices increased 665.4% over that period, an average of
3.99% a year.
$100 in 1967 has
the same buying power as
$765
in 2019
Detailed inflation statistics
Cumulative price change
665.4%
Average inflation rate
3.99% per year
Converted amount ($100 base)
$765
Price difference ($100 base)
$665
CPI in 1967
33.4
CPI in 2019
255.657
Inflation in 1967
3.09%
Inflation in 2019
1.81%
$100 in 1967 → 2019
$765
$100 in 2019 → 1967
$13.06
What happened to prices between 1967 and 2019
Between 1967 and 2019, the Consumer Price Index went from 33.4 to 255.657.
Cumulatively, prices increased 665.4%, which works out to an average of
3.99% per year. Put differently, a dollar in 1967 bought what
$0.13 buys in 2019: the 1967 dollar
lost 86.9% of its purchasing power over
these 52 years.
Consumer prices rose 3.1% in 1967, up from 1966’s 2.9% as
Vietnam War spending kept climbing alongside expanding Great Society
programs, a combination of rising military and domestic outlays that
economists later blamed for entrenching inflation through the rest of the
decade. The minimum wage rose that February 1, to $1.40 an hour, the
first step of a phased increase Congress had set the year before. Urban
unrest reached a peak that July, when days of rioting left 26 dead in
Newark and 43 dead in Detroit, the deadliest of that summer’s roughly 160
disturbances; Johnson responded by forming the Kerner Commission to study
the causes of the unrest. The Supreme Court gained its first Black
justice that year too: the Senate confirmed Thurgood Marshall on August
30, and he was sworn in that October after serving as U.S. Solicitor
General and, before that, as the lead attorney in Brown v. Board of
Education. Consumer prices finished 1967 237.4% above their
1913 level. First-class postage held at 5 cents.
Every 1967 amount converts to 2019 at the same ratio, 7.65: $1,000 becomes
$7,654, and $10,000 becomes $76,544.
Amount in 1967
Value in 2019
$1.00
$7.65
$5.00
$38.27
$10.00
$76.54
$20.00
$153
$50.00
$383
$100
$765
$500
$3,827
$1,000
$7,654
$5,000
$38,272
$10,000
$76,544
$100,000
$765,440
$1,000,000
$7,654,401
Inflation by spending category, 1967–2019
Between 1967 and 2019, medical care rose the most, up 1667.4%, while apparel rose the least, up 143.2%, against 665.4% for all items. The headline number is an average; here is what $100 of 1967
spending costs in 2019, by category:
Category
Avg. yearly inflation
$100 in 1967 →
All items (CPI-U)
3.99%
$765
Medical care
5.68%
$1,767
Energy
4.33%
$905
Housing
4.23%
$863
Core (all items less food & energy)
3.97%
$759
Food
3.97%
$758
Transportation
3.61%
$631
Apparel
1.72%
$243
Not shown because the BLS began these indexes after 1967: recreation (1993–), education & communication (1993–).
Decade by decade: 1967 to 2019
Prices climbed fastest in the 1970s, averaging 7.82% a year, and slowest in the 2010s (1.78% a year). Each step below chains into the full 1967–2019 change:
Years
Avg. yearly inflation
Price change
$100 from 1967, at end
1967–1970
5.12%
16.2%
$116
1970–1980
7.82%
112.4%
$247
1980–1990
4.72%
58.6%
$391
1990–2000
2.80%
31.8%
$516
2000–2010
2.39%
26.6%
$653
2010–2019
1.78%
17.2%
$765
Year by year: CPI and the value of $100 from 1967
$100 from 1967 had already become $433 by
1993, on its way to $765 in 2019; each row shows the CPI, that
year's inflation rate, and the running value.
Within the span, inflation peaked at 13.5% in 1980, and prices fell 0.4% in 2009, the deepest deflation of the period.
Long periods are sampled every 2 years; the calculator above covers any pair of years.
The destination year: 2019
In 2019, prices rose 1.8% and $100 from 1967 had the buying
power of $765; the year's average CPI of 255.657 is the level
behind every 2019 figure on this page.
2019 was the last ordinary year before COVID-19. Consumer prices rose 1.8%,
slightly under the Federal Reserve’s 2% target, with gasoline averaging
$2.60 a gallon. Median household income jumped to $68,703, the highest on
record up to that point, and the median new home sold for about $328,000. A
first-class stamp rose to 55 cents.
The Fed reversed course. After four increases in 2018, it cut rates three
times, to 1.50–1.75%, citing slower global growth, trade tensions, and low
inflation. In July the expansion that began in June 2009 became the longest in
U.S. records, and in August the yield curve briefly inverted, a signal
investors read as a recession warning.
For workers at the bottom of the pay scale, 2019 marked a milestone of a
different kind. The federal minimum wage stayed at $7.25 and reached its tenth
year without an increase, the longest gap since the wage was first set. Because
prices had climbed about 19% since it was last raised in 2009, its buying power
was lower than at any point in that span.
MLA: “Inflation from 1967 to 2019: $100 is worth $765 today.” InflationCalculator.com, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data, https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1967-to-2019/
APA: InflationCalculator.com. Inflation from 1967 to 2019. Based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data. Retrieved from https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1967-to-2019/