$100 in 2014 is worth $108 in 2019,
because prices increased 8.0% over that period, an average of
1.55% a year.
$100 in 2014 has
the same buying power as
$108
in 2019
Detailed inflation statistics
Cumulative price change
8.0%
Average inflation rate
1.55% per year
Converted amount ($100 base)
$108
Price difference ($100 base)
$7.99
CPI in 2014
236.736
CPI in 2019
255.657
Inflation in 2014
1.62%
Inflation in 2019
1.81%
$100 in 2014 → 2019
$108
$100 in 2019 → 2014
$92.60
What happened to prices between 2014 and 2019
Between 2014 and 2019, the Consumer Price Index went from 236.736 to 255.657.
Cumulatively, prices increased 8.0%, which works out to an average of
1.55% per year. Put differently, a dollar in 2014 bought what
$0.93 buys in 2019: the 2014 dollar
lost 7.4% of its purchasing power over
these 5 years.
2014 ended with the sharpest oil price drop in years. Consumer prices rose
1.6% for the year, close to 2013’s pace, but the annual figure hid a shift at
the pump: crude oil fell from above $100 a barrel in June to below $60 in
December, and gasoline finished the year near $2.25 a gallon after averaging
$3.37 across 2014. The drop reflected record U.S. shale output, softer
global demand, and OPEC’s decision in November to keep producing.
For households, cheaper fuel arrived just as the labor market strengthened.
Median household income was $53,657, essentially flat on the prior year, and
the median new home sold for about $288,500. The federal minimum wage stayed
at $7.25 for a fifth year, and a first-class stamp rose to 49 cents.
The Federal Reserve ended its bond purchases in October but left its policy
rate at zero. A stronger dollar helped hold down import prices. Because
energy weighs heavily in the CPI, the late-year slide carried into 2015, which
posted the smallest annual increase of the decade.
Every 2014 amount converts to 2019 at the same ratio, 1.08: $1,000 becomes
$1,080, and $10,000 becomes $10,799.
Amount in 2014
Value in 2019
$1.00
$1.08
$5.00
$5.40
$10.00
$10.80
$20.00
$21.60
$50.00
$54.00
$100
$108
$500
$540
$1,000
$1,080
$5,000
$5,400
$10,000
$10,799
$100,000
$107,992
$1,000,000
$1,079,924
Inflation by spending category, 2014–2019
Between 2014 and 2019, medical care rose the most, up 14.5%, while energy fell 11.6%, against 8.0% for all items. The headline number is an average; here is what $100 of 2014
spending costs in 2019, by category:
Category
Avg. yearly inflation
$100 in 2014 →
All items (CPI-U)
1.55%
$108
Medical care
2.75%
$115
Housing
2.66%
$114
Core (all items less food & energy)
2.04%
$111
Food
1.25%
$106
Recreation
0.86%
$104
Education & communication
0.04%
$100
Apparel
-0.55%
$97.29
Transportation
-0.55%
$97.28
Energy
-2.44%
$88.39
Year by year: CPI and the value of $100 from 2014
$100 from 2014 had already become $101 by
2016, on its way to $108 in 2019; each row shows the CPI, that
year's inflation rate, and the running value.
Within the span, inflation peaked at 2.4% in 2018, and the smallest rise was 0.1% in 2015.
In 2019, prices rose 1.8% and $100 from 2014 had the buying
power of $108; 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 2014 to 2019: $100 is worth $108 today.” InflationCalculator.com, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data, https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/2014-to-2019/
APA: InflationCalculator.com. Inflation from 2014 to 2019. Based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data. Retrieved from https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/2014-to-2019/