This inflation calculator uses the change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) from 1913 to 2025 to estimate the U.S. dollar's buying power and future value.
The Consumer Price Index “is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services,” according to the Bureau of Labor ...
The Consumer Price Index rose 3 percent from a year earlier in a report delayed because of the government shutdown. By Colby Smith The Bureau of Labor Statistics is calling back some employees to ...
The inflation measure used to calculate increases is suboptimal ... So 2026's COLA will be based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) numbers from July, August, and September of 2025 in relation to the ...