The value of money
What is money from 2025 worth today?
Measured by U.S. consumer prices, a dollar from January 2025 takes 1.05 dollars to match today. Below, the standard amounts — and what they bought at the time.
2025 amounts, in today’s money
$1.00$1.05
$10.00$10.54
$100$105
$1,000$1,054
$10,000$10,545
$100,000$105,449
CPI-U, all items, not seasonally adjusted · January 2025 to August 2026 · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
What $10,000 bought in 2025
Consumer prices answer what money buys in a shop. These answer what it commanded of something real.
GoldJanuary 2025 · World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet)3.69 oz of gold
Median new home sale priceQ1 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development0.02 median new homes
Had $10,000 been invested in 2025 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)$16,277
U.S. Large-Cap Equity Composite (total return)observation June 2026 · Robert J. Shiller, Yale University$12,675