Year-to-Year Inflation Calculator

Objective:

Provide a Consumer Price Index based calculator

Conclusion:

This calculator is useful to determine if assets have appreciated - gained value over time depreciated - lost value over time by translating monetary value between years

• Example:
• Purchased a home in 1994 for 138,500
• Want to know what that 138,500 would be worth in 2014 if it kept up with inflation What should the house be worth in 2014 if the property neither appreciated nor depreciated? Use the calculator picklists and calc buttons to enter

  FROM Base Year:	1994
  TO Target Year:	2014

  
  
  Click the Calc Inflation button to derive
  
  

  Inflation Rate:

  59.72%

  Amount:

  138000

  Click the Inflation Adjustment Amount button to derive

  Inflation Adjusted Value:

  221207
  
  Over the period 1994 to 2014
• there was 60% inflation rate
• would need to sell house for $221,207
• in order to break even (not lose money invested in the house to inflation)