Between 2010 and 2025, US consumer prices rose by 48.0%. That means $1,000 then had roughly the same buying power as $1,480 now — an average of 2.65% inflation per year over 15 years.
What $1,000 in 2010 was worth at each following decade, adjusted for consumer price inflation.
Inflation adjustment uses the ratio of the Consumer Price Index between the two years — the same method the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics documents for comparing dollar amounts over time.
The index used is CPI-U (all urban consumers, US city average, all items), base period 1982-1984 = 100. Inflation in 2010 itself ran at 1.6%. The 2025 figure is the latest annual average available and may be revised by BLS.
Note: other inflation calculators may show slightly different results because some use a specific month rather than the annual average, or a different end year. This page uses annual averages throughout, and states both index values above so the arithmetic can be checked.
$1,000 in 2010 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $1,480 in 2025. That is an increase of $480 over 15 years, or a total price rise of 48.0%.
Prices rose at an average of 2.65% per year between 2010 and 2025. Compounded over 15 years, that turns $1,000 into $1,480.
The amount is multiplied by the ratio of the Consumer Price Index in 2025 to the index in 2010: 322.8 divided by 218.1 equals 1.4804. Multiplying $1,000 by 1.4804 gives $1,480. The index is the CPI-U published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, base period 1982-1984 = 100.
Running the comparison in reverse, $1,000 in 2025 has roughly the same buying power as $676 in 2010.
Use the full inflation tool to compare any amount between any two years, or project what today's money will be worth in the future.
