Natural gas · per therm · 2002 Verified
$0.77in June 2002 — about $1.43 in today's money.
- Price in 2002$0.77
- Same money today$1.43
- Actual price now · June 2026$1.69
- Change since 2002+119%
Priced in working time
- Work to buy in 2002 · the federal minimum wage was $5.15/hour9 min
- Work to buy today · at $7.25/hour (2026)14 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 2002; we have not adjusted the figure.
- Source
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED. Public domain.
- Series
- APU000072620
- Observed
- June 2002
- Coverage
- November 1978 – June 2026
- Adjusted by
- CPIAUCNS · 179.9 → 333.952 (June 2026)
- License
- Public domain