Inflation Calculator (1913 - Present): See if your Salary has kept pace

[Sandpiper]

For example:

If you were making 27,000 in 1987. You 2004 salary would have had to be $44,873.24 to have kept pace.

http://www.aier.org/cgi-aier/colcalculator.cgi

[The Straight Story]

1. In 1986 I was making about 12,000 a year, in today's dollars

I would need to make about 21,000 (I make over 3 times that now) so I have kept up.

It is interesting to see though how things compare dollar wise - has minimum wage kept up???

[Acryliccalico]

2. In 1966 I made $54.00 a week

it = $314.67 now. I was 16 years old and worked on an assembly line making Nylint toy cars and trucks. :kick:

[Acryliccalico]

3. In 1965 the min. wage was $1.27 an hour

that would be $7.61 today.

[theorist]

4. It's interesting that you post that.

Tax cuts hardly ever boost the economy in a robust way, but increasing the minimum wage always does. I feel awful for those trying to make ends meet on minimum wage, but I know that the repubs would gain a huge amount of public support if they increased it.