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Re: Historical Salary Calculator



A few years ago I had to determine the buying power of the dollar or
something along way back when. The almanacs and typical sources do not go
back that far. I contacted someone (and I don't have that contact # handy)
with the Dept of Commerce. There is someone in a cubicle farm there who had
all this obscure historical data, and he led me to believe it goes back
quite some time. He said he had printouts for all sorts of historical
financial things, as I recall, that went back to the early part of US
history.      Do you all remember the 'shopping basket' concept, as to
buying power of the dollar? I think that cute, but nonetheless effective,
grocery cart image of CPI and buying power has since bit the dust, but it
was very popular in probably the 1960's or 1970's. Probably one of the
better visual and  understandable stuff that came out of Washington.

Sharon Lee Butcher
Reference Librarian
AEDC Technical Library
100 Kindel Drive, Suite C212
Arnold AFB, TN  37389-3212
Phone:  931-454-4430
Fax:  931-454-5421
e-mail:  sharon.butcher@arnold.af.mil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lisa Decesare [SMTP:ldecesar@OEB.HARVARD.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 2:00 PM
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> Subject:      Historical Salary Calculator
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> Does anyone know of a historical salary calculator on the web?  I am
> interested in converting salary information in the late 1800's-early
> 1900's
> to its modern equivalent for an exhibit we are working on here.
>
> Thanks, Lisa D.
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