Tomatoes · per lb · 2008 Verified
$1.81in June 2008 — about $2.76 in today's money.
- Price in 2008$1.81
- Same money today$2.76
- Actual price now · June 2026$2.15
- Change since 2008+19%
Priced in working time
- Work to buy in 2008 · the federal minimum wage was $5.85/hour19 min
- Work to buy today · at $7.25/hour (2026)18 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
- APU0000712311
- Observed
- June 2008
- Coverage
- January 1980 – June 2026
- Adjusted by
- CPIAUCNS · 218.815 → 333.952 (June 2026)
- License
- Public domain