Prices don't hold still, so a dollar figure only means something once you know which year's dollars it's in. These pages convert $100 from any year back to 1960 into today's dollars using the official BLS CPI-U index — the honest way to compare wages, prices, or budgets across decades, because otherwise you're comparing dollars of different sizes. Pick a year to see the equivalent value today, the total inflation since then, and a year-by-year chart.
Updated July 2026