$100 in 1967 is worth $876 in 2022,
because prices increased 776.2% over that period, an average of
4.03% a year.
$100 in 1967 has
the same buying power as
$876
in 2022
Detailed inflation statistics
Cumulative price change
776.2%
Average inflation rate
4.03% per year
Converted amount ($100 base)
$876
Price difference ($100 base)
$776
CPI in 1967
33.4
CPI in 2022
292.655
Inflation in 1967
3.09%
Inflation in 2022
8.00%
$100 in 1967 → 2022
$876
$100 in 2022 → 1967
$11.41
What happened to prices between 1967 and 2022
Between 1967 and 2022, the Consumer Price Index went from 33.4 to 292.655.
Cumulatively, prices increased 776.2%, which works out to an average of
4.03% per year. Put differently, a dollar in 1967 bought what
$0.11 buys in 2022: the 1967 dollar
lost 88.6% of its purchasing power over
these 55 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 2022 at the same ratio, 8.76: $1,000 becomes
$8,762, and $10,000 becomes $87,621.
Amount in 1967
Value in 2022
$1.00
$8.76
$5.00
$43.81
$10.00
$87.62
$20.00
$175
$50.00
$438
$100
$876
$500
$4,381
$1,000
$8,762
$5,000
$43,811
$10,000
$87,621
$100,000
$876,213
$1,000,000
$8,762,126
Inflation by spending category, 1967–2022
Between 1967 and 2022, medical care rose the most, up 1838.1%, while apparel rose the least, up 149.2%, against 776.2% for all items. The headline number is an average; here is what $100 of 1967
spending costs in 2022, by category:
Category
Avg. yearly inflation
$100 in 1967 →
All items (CPI-U)
4.03%
$876
Medical care
5.54%
$1,938
Energy
4.70%
$1,253
Housing
4.23%
$977
Food
4.07%
$896
Core (all items less food & energy)
3.96%
$848
Transportation
3.85%
$800
Apparel
1.67%
$249
Not shown because the BLS began these indexes after 1967: recreation (1993–), education & communication (1993–).
Decade by decade: 1967 to 2022
Prices climbed fastest in the 1970s, averaging 7.82% a year, and slowest in the 2010s (1.73% a year). Each step below chains into the full 1967–2022 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
2010–2020
1.73%
18.7%
$775
2020–2022
6.34%
13.1%
$876
Year by year: CPI and the value of $100 from 1967
$100 from 1967 had already become $456 by
1995, on its way to $876 in 2022; 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: 2022
In 2022, prices rose 8.0% and $100 from 1967 had the buying
power of $876; the year's average CPI of 292.655 is the level
behind every 2022 figure on this page.
2022 was the year inflation returned. Consumer prices rose 8.0% on average,
the worst since 1981, driven by pandemic-era supply chains, stimulus-fueled
demand, and an energy shock from the war in Ukraine. Gas briefly topped $5 a
gallon nationally for the first time ever, and “inflation” became the
top-ranked economic concern in nearly every poll of American households.
MLA: “Inflation from 1967 to 2022: $100 is worth $876 today.” InflationCalculator.com, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data, https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1967-to-2022/
APA: InflationCalculator.com. Inflation from 1967 to 2022. Based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data. Retrieved from https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1967-to-2022/