About Price Pulse

Price Pulse tracks the everyday cost of living in the United States — groceries, energy, housing, healthcare and more — using official data published monthly by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and other agencies, served through the Federal Reserve's FRED database.

Three ways to read a price

Each series can be viewed through one of three lenses:

• Dollars / Index — the value exactly as reported.
• Inflation adjusted — past prices restated in today's dollars using the Consumer Price Index (CPI), so amounts compare like-for-like across the years.
• Work-time — the price expressed as how long you'd work to afford it, at average non-executive pay. Enter your own pay to personalize it.

Data source: FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Price Pulse is an independent project and is not affiliated with FRED, the Federal Reserve, or the Bureau of Labor Statistics.