What is $1 from 2025 worth today?
$1 in 2025 is worth $1.05 in September 2026, based on the official Consumer Price Index. Prices have risen 5% since 2025, an average of 3.84% a year over 1 years. In other words, prices have doubled about 0.1 times, and a dollar today buys 95.5% of what it bought in 2025.
The same ratio applies to any amount: $20 from 2025 is worth $20.93, $100 is worth $104.66 and $1,000 is worth $1,047 in today's dollars.
Inflation in 2025
The CPI-U averaged 321.943 in 2025, up 2.6% from 313.689 in 2024. From December 2024 to December 2025, prices rose 2.7%. Ranked by annual inflation, 2025 is number 58 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.
2025 prices in today's money, and today's prices in 2025 money
If something cost $5 in 2025, the same buying power today is $5.23. Going the other way, $100 in September 2026 would have bought what $95.55 bought in 2025, and a $60,000 salary today has the buying power of a $57,329 salary in 2025.
If your pay in 2025 was, say, $1,000 a month, you would need about $1,047 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 2025 inflation figure is calculated
The calculation divides the latest CPI-U (336.94 for September 2026) by the 2025 annual average (321.943): 336.94 ÷ 321.943 = 1.0466. Multiply any 2025 amount by 1.0466 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. BLS did not publish October 2025 data because of the 2025 lapse in appropriations, so the 2025 annual average is based on 11 months.
Use the calculator above to pick a specific month in 2025 or a different end date. See also $1 in 2024. All years are on the main US inflation calculator page.