Electricity · per kwh · 1979 Verified
$0.05in June 1979 — about $0.24 in today's money.
- Price in 1979$0.05
- Same money today$0.24
- Actual price now · June 2026$0.20
- Change since 1979+281%
Priced in working time
- Work to buy in 1979 · the federal minimum wage was $2.90/hour1 min
- Work to buy today · at $7.25/hour (2026)2 min
Observed price divided by the observed wage for the same year — nothing here is back-cast. See the minimum wage record →
Price history
Record & method
This is an observed price. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded it in June 1979; we have not adjusted the figure.
- Source
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED. Public domain.
- Series
- APU000072610
- Observed
- June 1979
- Coverage
- November 1978 – June 2026
- Adjusted by
- CPIAUCNS · 72.3 → 333.952 (June 2026)
- License
- Public domain