The value of money
What is money from 2022 worth today?
Measured by U.S. consumer prices, a dollar from January 2022 takes 1.19 dollars to match today. Below, the standard amounts — and what they bought at the time.
2022 amounts, in today’s money
$1.00$1.19
$10.00$11.91
$100$119
$1,000$1,191
$10,000$11,915
$100,000$119,147
CPI-U, all items, not seasonally adjusted · January 2022 to August 2026 · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
What $10,000 bought in 2022
Consumer prices answer what money buys in a shop. These answer what it commanded of something real.
GoldJanuary 2022 · World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet)5.51 oz of gold
Median new home sale priceQ1 2022 · U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development0.02 median new homes
Median US household income2022 · U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey ASEC0.13 years of household income
Had $10,000 been invested in 2022 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)$24,290
U.S. Large-Cap Equity Composite (total return)observation June 2026 · Robert J. Shiller, Yale University$17,335