Lettuce, romaine · per lb · 2020 Verified
$2.03in February 2020 — about $2.62 in today's money.
- Price in 2020$2.03
- Same money today$2.62
- Actual price now · June 2026$4.02
- Change since 2020+98%
Priced in working time
- Work to buy in 2020 · the federal minimum wage was $7.25/hour17 min
- Work to buy today · at $7.25/hour (2026)33 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 February 2020; we have not adjusted the figure.
- Source
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED. Public domain.
- Series
- APU0000FL2101
- Observed
- February 2020
- Coverage
- January 2006 – June 2026
- Adjusted by
- CPIAUCNS · 258.678 → 333.952 (June 2026)
- License
- Public domain