In 1924 the famous novelist F Scott Fitzgerald wrote an

Last updated: 8/19/2023

In 1924 the famous novelist F Scott Fitzgerald wrote an article for the Saturday Evening Post titled How to live on 36 000 a Year in which he wondered how he and his wife had managed to spend all of that very high income without saving any of it The CPI in 1924 was 17 and the CPI in 2020 was 259 Source F Scott Fitzgerald How to live on 36 000 a Year Saturday Evening Post April 5 1924 The income you would have needed in 2020 to have had the same purchasing power that Fitzgerald s 36 000 had in 1924 is Enter your response rounded to the nearest dollar