Inflation Calculator
What today’s money will buy later, and what a future cost is in today’s terms.
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Note that education and healthcare have historically risen faster than headline CPI.
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Snapshots of your inputs, so you can flip between them — “20 years at 9%” against “15 years at 9.5%”. Stored in this browser only, no account needed.
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Still needed: inflation you assume.
We leave rate assumptions blank on purpose. A pre-filled number would read as our prediction, and nobody can predict a return. Put in whatever you think is realistic — then change it and watch how far the answer moves.
Questions people actually ask
- What inflation rate should I use?
- Whichever you think is realistic — it is your assumption, not our forecast. Note that headline CPI often understates what a particular household experiences: education and healthcare costs have historically risen faster than the overall index.
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