What is $1 from 2022 worth today?
$1 in 2022 is worth $1.15 in September 2026, based on the official Consumer Price Index. Prices have risen 15% since 2022, an average of 3.41% a year over 4 years. In other words, prices have doubled about 0.2 times, and a dollar today buys 86.9% of what it bought in 2022.
The same ratio applies to any amount: $20 from 2022 is worth $23.03, $100 is worth $115.13 and $1,000 is worth $1,151 in today's dollars.
Inflation in 2022
The CPI-U averaged 292.655 in 2022, up 8.0% from 270.97 in 2021. From December 2021 to December 2022, prices rose 6.5%. This was the period of the post-pandemic inflation surge. Ranked by annual inflation, 2022 is number 14 of the 112 years from 1914 to 2025.
In the 2020s, annual inflation averaged 3.9% a year (over the 6 years with data). The highest rate was 8.0% in 2022 and the lowest 1.2% in 2020, so 2022 had the decade's highest inflation.
2022 prices in today's money, and today's prices in 2022 money
If something cost $5 in 2022, the same buying power today is $5.76. Going the other way, $100 in September 2026 would have bought what $86.86 bought in 2022, and a $60,000 salary today has the buying power of a $52,114 salary in 2022.
If your pay in 2022 was, say, $1,000 a month, you would need about $1,151 a month in September 2026 to afford the same basket of goods and services. Remember that this is an average across consumer spending: some prices, such as housing, health care and tuition, have risen faster than the CPI, while others have risen more slowly.
How this 2022 inflation figure is calculated
The calculation divides the latest CPI-U (336.94 for September 2026) by the 2022 annual average (292.655): 336.94 ÷ 292.655 = 1.1513. Multiply any 2022 amount by 1.1513 to convert it to September 2026 dollars. The data is the CPI for All Urban Consumers, U.S. city average, all items, not seasonally adjusted (BLS series CUUR0000SA0), published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Use the calculator above to pick a specific month in 2022 or a different end date. See also $1 in 2021 and $1 in 2023. All years are on the main US inflation calculator page.