📉 Salary Inflation Calculator
See what your salary is really worth after inflation, or how much of a raise you’d need just to keep up with rising prices.
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How this calculator works
This calculator shows how inflation erodes the purchasing power of a salary over time, and what nominal salary would be needed to maintain the same real (inflation-adjusted) buying power.
The formulas
- Salary Needed to Keep Pace = Current Salary × (1 + Inflation Rate)Years
- Real Value if Unchanged = Current Salary / (1 + Inflation Rate)Years
If your salary stays flat while prices rise, your real purchasing power falls even though the dollar amount hasn’t changed.
This calculator is for general personal-finance education, using a constant assumed inflation rate.
Last reviewed August 2026