Milk, whole · per gallon · 2009 Verified
$3.01in June 2009 — about $4.66 in today's money.
- Price in 2009$3.01
- Same money today$4.66
- Actual price now · June 2026$4.32
- Change since 2009+44%
Priced in working time
- Work to buy in 2009 · the federal minimum wage was $6.55/hour28 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 2009; we have not adjusted the figure.
- Source
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED. Public domain.
- Series
- APU0000709112
- Observed
- June 2009
- Coverage
- July 1995 – June 2026
- Adjusted by
- CPIAUCNS · 215.693 → 333.952 (June 2026)
- License
- Public domain