Milk, whole · per gallon · 2008 Verified
$3.77in June 2008 — about $5.75 in today's money.
- Price in 2008$3.77
- Same money today$5.75
- Actual price now · June 2026$4.32
- Change since 2008+15%
Priced in working time
- Work to buy in 2008 · the federal minimum wage was $5.85/hour39 min
- Work to buy today · at $7.25/hour (2026)36 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 2008; we have not adjusted the figure.
- Source
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED. Public domain.
- Series
- APU0000709112
- Observed
- June 2008
- Coverage
- July 1995 – June 2026
- Adjusted by
- CPIAUCNS · 218.815 → 333.952 (June 2026)
- License
- Public domain