$100 in 2009 is worth $146 in 2024,
because prices increased 46.2% over that period, an average of
2.57% a year.
$100 in 2009 has
the same buying power as
$146
in 2024
Detailed inflation statistics
Cumulative price change
46.2%
Average inflation rate
2.57% per year
Converted amount ($100 base)
$146
Price difference ($100 base)
$46.22
CPI in 2009
214.537
CPI in 2024
313.689
Inflation in 2009
-0.36%
Inflation in 2024
2.95%
$100 in 2009 → 2024
$146
$100 in 2024 → 2009
$68.39
What happened to prices between 2009 and 2024
Between 2009 and 2024, the Consumer Price Index went from 214.537 to 313.689.
Cumulatively, prices increased 46.2%, which works out to an average of
2.57% per year. Put differently, a dollar in 2009 bought what
$0.68 buys in 2024: the 2009 dollar
lost 31.6% of its purchasing power over
these 15 years.
2009 is the rarest kind of year in the modern price data: one where the cost
of living went down. The CPI fell 0.4%, the first full-year deflation
since 1955, as the Great Recession hollowed out demand and oil unwound from
its $147 spike the summer before. Gasoline that had cost over $4 a gallon in
July 2008 averaged $2.35 in 2009, and that energy collapse dragged the
12-month inflation rate to −2.1% by July, the deepest reading since 1950.
Policymakers treated falling prices not as relief but as a warning: deflation
raises the real weight of debt precisely when households are drowning in it,
which is why the Federal Reserve pinned interest rates near zero, began buying
bonds by the hundreds of billions, and Washington passed a $787 billion
stimulus. The medicine took: prices stabilized within a year, and 2009 remains
the textbook case of why central banks fear deflation more than moderate
inflation.
Every 2009 amount converts to 2024 at the same ratio, 1.46: $1,000 becomes
$1,462, and $10,000 becomes $14,622.
Amount in 2009
Value in 2024
$1.00
$1.46
$5.00
$7.31
$10.00
$14.62
$20.00
$29.24
$50.00
$73.11
$100
$146
$500
$731
$1,000
$1,462
$5,000
$7,311
$10,000
$14,622
$100,000
$146,217
$1,000,000
$1,462,167
Inflation by spending category, 2009–2024
Between 2009 and 2024, housing rose the most, up 53.9%, while apparel rose the least, up 9.5%, against 46.2% for all items. The headline number is an average; here is what $100 of 2009
spending costs in 2024, by category:
Category
Avg. yearly inflation
$100 in 2009 →
All items (CPI-U)
2.57%
$146
Housing
2.92%
$154
Food
2.81%
$152
Transportation
2.79%
$151
Medical care
2.75%
$150
Core (all items less food & energy)
2.53%
$145
Energy
2.50%
$145
Recreation
1.27%
$121
Education & communication
0.92%
$115
Apparel
0.61%
$109
Decade by decade: 2009 to 2024
Prices climbed fastest in the 2020s, averaging 4.93% a year, and slowest in the 2000s (1.64% a year). Each step below chains into the full 2009–2024 change:
Years
Avg. yearly inflation
Price change
$100 from 2009, at end
2009–2010
1.64%
1.6%
$102
2010–2020
1.73%
18.7%
$121
2020–2024
4.93%
21.2%
$146
Year by year: CPI and the value of $100 from 2009
$100 from 2009 had already become $112 by
2016, on its way to $146 in 2024; 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 the smallest rise was 0.1% in 2015.
In 2024, prices rose 2.9% and $100 from 2009 had the buying
power of $146; the year's average CPI of 313.689 is the level
behind every 2024 figure on this page.
2024 brought inflation close to normal without fully reaching it. Consumer
prices rose 2.9% on average, the smallest yearly increase since 2020, and the
December-to-December rate was also 2.9%. Gasoline averaged $3.30 a gallon,
below 2023’s $3.52. Shelter stayed the biggest driver of the index, so the
pace of price growth in categories that households can’t easily avoid, such as
rent and insurance, lagged the drop in goods and energy costs.
The Federal Reserve declared progress in September, cutting its policy rate
by half a point, the first reduction since the pandemic emergency, and then
by a quarter point in November and again in December. Mortgage rates near 7%
kept the housing market frozen for many would-be buyers.
Median household income was $83,730, the federal minimum wage stayed at $7.25,
and a first-class stamp rose to 73 cents in July. After the November election,
attention turned to how announced tariffs and tax policy might affect prices
in 2025.
MLA: “Inflation from 2009 to 2024: $100 is worth $146 today.” InflationCalculator.com, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data, https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/2009-to-2024/
APA: InflationCalculator.com. Inflation from 2009 to 2024. Based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data. Retrieved from https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/2009-to-2024/