The value of money
What is money from 2017 worth today?
Measured by U.S. consumer prices, a dollar from January 2017 takes 1.38 dollars to match today. Below, the standard amounts — and what they bought at the time.
2017 amounts, in today’s money
$1.00$1.38
$10.00$13.79
$100$138
$1,000$1,379
$10,000$13,794
$100,000$137,943
CPI-U, all items, not seasonally adjusted · January 2017 to August 2026 · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
What $10,000 bought in 2017
Consumer prices answer what money buys in a shop. These answer what it commanded of something real.
GoldJanuary 2017 · World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet)8.39 oz of gold
Median new home sale priceQ1 2017 · U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development0.03 median new homes
Median US household income2017 · U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey ASEC0.16 years of household income
Had $10,000 been invested in 2017 instead
A different question again: not what money could buy, but what it would have become. Equity figures include reinvested dividends.
Goldobservation August 2026 · World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet)$37,005
U.S. Large-Cap Equity Composite (total return)observation June 2026 · Robert J. Shiller, Yale University$38,100