$100 in 1982 is worth $334 in 2025,
because prices increased 233.6% over that period, an average of
2.84% a year.
$100 in 1982 has
the same buying power as
$334
in 2025
Detailed inflation statistics
Cumulative price change
233.6%
Average inflation rate
2.84% per year
Converted amount ($100 base)
$334
Price difference ($100 base)
$234
CPI in 1982
96.5
CPI in 2025
321.943
Inflation in 1982
6.16%
Inflation in 2025
2.63%
$100 in 1982 → 2025
$334
$100 in 2025 → 1982
$29.97
What happened to prices between 1982 and 2025
Between 1982 and 2025, the Consumer Price Index went from 96.5 to 321.943.
Cumulatively, prices increased 233.6%, which works out to an average of
2.84% per year. Put differently, a dollar in 1982 bought what
$0.30 buys in 2025: the 1982 dollar
lost 70.0% of its purchasing power over
these 43 years.
1982 was the hard bottom of the disinflation Paul Volcker had set in motion.
Consumer prices rose just 6.2% for the year, roughly half of 1981’s rate and a
fraction of the 13.5% peak from two years earlier. The price fell because
demand had been crushed: the recession that began in July 1981 did not
officially end until November 1982, and unemployment kept climbing even as
the economy technically began to recover, reaching 10.8% in November and
December, the highest rate since the Great Depression. Manufacturing and
construction, especially the auto and housing industries starved of credit by
double-digit interest rates, bore the worst of it. Abroad, Mexico’s August
announcement that it could not service its foreign debt opened a Latin
American debt crisis that spread across the region and forced the Federal
Reserve and IMF into emergency lending. The stress on the financial system
pushed Volcker to start easing interest rates that October, stepping back
from the strict money-supply targets he had followed since 1979. Markets read
the shift correctly: the Dow Jones Industrial Average bottomed at 776.92 in
mid-August, and the rally that followed became the opening leg of the 1980s
bull market. By year’s end, the trade-off Volcker had bet on was becoming
visible: much lower inflation, at the cost of the worst unemployment in 40
years.
Every 1982 amount converts to 2025 at the same ratio, 3.34: $1,000 becomes
$3,336, and $10,000 becomes $33,362.
Amount in 1982
Value in 2025
$1.00
$3.34
$5.00
$16.68
$10.00
$33.36
$20.00
$66.72
$50.00
$167
$100
$334
$500
$1,668
$1,000
$3,336
$5,000
$16,681
$10,000
$33,362
$100,000
$333,620
$1,000,000
$3,336,197
Inflation by spending category, 1982–2025
Between 1982 and 2025, medical care rose the most, up 527.1%, while apparel rose the least, up 34.3%, against 233.6% for all items. The headline number is an average; here is what $100 of 1982
spending costs in 2025, by category:
Category
Avg. yearly inflation
$100 in 1982 →
All items (CPI-U)
2.84%
$334
Medical care
4.36%
$627
Housing
3.01%
$358
Food
2.95%
$349
Core (all items less food & energy)
2.90%
$342
Energy
2.44%
$282
Transportation
2.43%
$281
Apparel
0.69%
$134
Not shown because the BLS began these indexes after 1982: recreation (1993–), education & communication (1993–).
Decade by decade: 1982 to 2025
Prices climbed fastest in the 2020s, averaging 4.46% a year, and slowest in the 2010s (1.73% a year). Each step below chains into the full 1982–2025 change:
Years
Avg. yearly inflation
Price change
$100 from 1982, at end
1982–1990
3.86%
35.4%
$135
1990–2000
2.80%
31.8%
$178
2000–2010
2.39%
26.6%
$226
2010–2020
1.73%
18.7%
$268
2020–2025
4.46%
24.4%
$334
Year by year: CPI and the value of $100 from 1982
$100 from 1982 had already become $196 by
2004, on its way to $334 in 2025; each row shows the CPI, that
year's inflation rate, and the running value.
Within the span, inflation peaked at 8.0% in 2022, 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: 2025
In 2025, prices rose 2.6% and $100 from 1982 had the buying
power of $334; 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 1982 to 2025: $100 is worth $334 today.” InflationCalculator.com, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data, https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1982-to-2025/
APA: InflationCalculator.com. Inflation from 1982 to 2025. Based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data. Retrieved from https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1982-to-2025/