What things cost, year by year
Pick a year from 1980 to 2025 to see what groceries, drinks and fuel cost on average that year, the same prices in today’s dollars, and what they cost in September 2026.
46 yearsUp to 53 items a yearOfficial BLS pricesFree CSV for every year
The 2010s
10 years- 2019Eggs $1.40$1 then = $1.32 now
- 2018Eggs $1.74$1 then = $1.34 now
- 2017Eggs $1.47$1 then = $1.37 now
- 2016Eggs $1.68$1 then = $1.40 now
- 2015Eggs $2.47$1 then = $1.42 now
- 2014Eggs $2.02$1 then = $1.42 now
- 2013Eggs $1.91$1 then = $1.45 now
- 2012Eggs $1.84$1 then = $1.47 now
- 2011Eggs $1.77$1 then = $1.50 now
- 2010Eggs $1.66$1 then = $1.55 now
The 2000s
10 years- 2009Eggs $1.66$1 then = $1.57 now
- 2008Eggs $1.99$1 then = $1.56 now
- 2007Eggs $1.68$1 then = $1.63 now
- 2006Eggs $1.31$1 then = $1.67 now
- 2005Eggs $1.22$1 then = $1.73 now
- 2004Eggs $1.34$1 then = $1.78 now
- 2003Eggs $1.24$1 then = $1.83 now
- 2002Eggs $1.03$1 then = $1.87 now
- 2001Eggs 92.9¢$1 then = $1.90 now
- 2000Eggs 91.3¢$1 then = $1.96 now
The 1990s
10 years- 1999Eggs 95.9¢$1 then = $2.02 now
- 1998Eggs $1.04$1 then = $2.07 now
- 1997Eggs $1.06$1 then = $2.10 now
- 1996Eggs $1.11$1 then = $2.15 now
- 1995Eggs 92.5¢$1 then = $2.21 now
- 1994Eggs 86.3¢$1 then = $2.27 now
- 1993Eggs 91.1¢$1 then = $2.33 now
- 1992Eggs 86.0¢$1 then = $2.40 now
- 1991Eggs 98.9¢$1 then = $2.47 now
- 1990Eggs $1.01$1 then = $2.58 now
The 1980s
10 years- 1989Eggs 99.8¢$1 then = $2.72 now
- 1988Eggs 78.9¢$1 then = $2.85 now
- 1987Eggs 78.3¢$1 then = $2.97 now
- 1986Eggs 87.0¢$1 then = $3.07 now
- 1985Eggs 80.4¢$1 then = $3.13 now
- 1984Eggs $1.00$1 then = $3.24 now
- 1983Eggs 89.4¢$1 then = $3.38 now
- 1982Eggs 86.7¢$1 then = $3.49 now
- 1981Eggs 89.9¢$1 then = $3.71 now
- 1980Eggs 84.4¢$1 then = $4.09 now
Why it starts in 1980
BLS prices a handful of items back to the 1970s, but fewer than 20 of the items here have a full year before 1980. Each item page goes back as far as its own record.