Inflation Calculator: 1990 to Today
See what a dollar amount from any year between 1913 and 2025 is worth in another year using official US CPI data, or project a future value at a custom inflation rate.
Processed entirely in your browser — nothing you enter here is ever uploaded.
Result
About this tool
This page opens the inflation calculator with 1990 preset as the starting year — enter an amount, keep 2025 as the target year, and you get its present-day equivalent along with the total percentage change and the average annual inflation rate over those three and a half decades.
Prices have grown roughly two and a half times since 1990: 100 dollars from that year corresponds to a bit under 250 of today's dollars, an average of about 2.6% inflation per year. The stretch includes the low-inflation 1990s and 2010s as well as the 2021–2022 surge, all captured in the official CPI-U annual averages from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The 1990 baseline is handy for interpreting salaries in old contracts, comparing house or tuition prices across a generation, or checking movie-trivia numbers. The whole CPI series is bundled into the page, so the math happens instantly in your browser and the amounts you type are never sent anywhere.
Example. 100 dollars in 1914, when CPI-U is 10.0, equals 200 dollars in 1920, when CPI-U is 20.0.
Limit. Historical years run only from 1913 through 2025, and the series is US CPI-U annual averages.