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.
Result
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.