Potato chips · per 16 oz · 1999 Verified
$3.24in June 1999 — about $6.51 in today's money.
- Price in 1999$3.24
- Same money today$6.51
- Actual price now · June 2026$6.63
- Change since 1999+105%
Priced in working time
- Work to buy in 1999 · the federal minimum wage was $5.15/hour38 min
- Work to buy today · at $7.25/hour (2026)55 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 1999; we have not adjusted the figure.
- Source
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED. Public domain.
- Series
- APU0000718311
- Observed
- June 1999
- Coverage
- January 1980 – June 2026
- Adjusted by
- CPIAUCNS · 166.2 → 333.952 (June 2026)
- License
- Public domain