Fuel oil #2 · per gallon · 2000 Verified
$1.25in June 2000 — about $2.42 in today's money.
- Price in 2000$1.25
- Same money today$2.42
- Actual price now · June 2026$4.71
- Change since 2000+277%
Priced in working time
- Work to buy in 2000 · the federal minimum wage was $5.15/hour15 min
- Work to buy today · at $7.25/hour (2026)39 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 2000; we have not adjusted the figure.
- Source
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED. Public domain.
- Series
- APU000072511
- Observed
- June 2000
- Coverage
- November 1978 – June 2026
- Adjusted by
- CPIAUCNS · 172.4 → 333.952 (June 2026)
- License
- Public domain