How fast are your prices rising?
Enter your monthly expenses below to see your personal inflation and the change in your expenses.
Our goal is to help Americans understand the changing prices in the economy and in their daily life.
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What is Inflation?
Inflation is the rate at which prices increase over time. Think of it like the speedometer in your car—it tells you how fast you're going, not how far you've traveled. Similarly, inflation tells you how quickly prices are rising, not how expensive things are overall.
A 3% annual inflation rate means that something costing $100 today would cost $103 in a year. The key word is "rate"—it's about the speed of change, not the price level itself. If inflation is 0%, prices aren't changing. If inflation is 10%, prices are rising rapidly.
We show both monthly inflation (how prices changed from last month) and annual inflation (how prices changed over the past year). Monthly rates are typically smaller but more volatile; annual rates give a better sense of the overall trajectory.
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Price changes don’t affect everyone the same way. By answering a few quick questions, we will tell you each month how price inflation is showing up in American households.
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