Does anyone know? Or even better, of a way to calculate it?
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl
$5000 in 1960 is worth about $35,700 today.
Curse you johnpowell and your remarkably quick fingers!
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At least you included the answer.
That’s awesome guys, thanks. Do you know of any for other currencies such as the GB£? (More out of interest than anything else.)
England
Google Consumer Price Index Calculator with the currency and that should help.
Thanks again.
(Off topic: that animation on the Bank of England site is pretty random.)
about two new cadillacs
Well, a person or two could live on it…. but back then there weren’t any credit cards and it wasn’t considered loserish to own almost nothing.
convert dollars in 1805 to 2009