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Use the Inflation Calculator to calculate today's monetary value for ancestor's salaries, amounts left in wills, etc.
The following form adjusts any given amount of money for inflation,
according to the Consumer Price Index, from 1800 to 2000. (And
don't use any commas in the numbers...) Enjoy!
Source
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The pre-1975 data are the Consumer Price Index statistics
from Historical Statistics of the United States
(USGPO, 1975). All data since then are from the annual
Statistical Abstracts of the United States.