What America was like in 1994
You were born in…
1994
This is where your story begins.
You’ve been here for
32
years
That’s about 11,700 days of history.
A first-class stamp in 1994 cost
29¢
Today the same stamp costs 82¢.
A dollar from 1994 would be worth
$2.27
today
Measured by the government’s Consumer Price Index.
The federal minimum wage in 1994 was
$4.25
an hour
Today it’s $7.25.
The president in 1994
Bill Clinton
Since then you’ve lived under 5 presidents.
The 1990 census counted
249 million
Americans
By 2020 there were 331 million of us.
You’ve been around for
32
Super Bowls
From Super Bowl XXIX in 1995 to Super Bowl LX in 2026.
You’re older than…
- Amazon sold its first book1995. You were 1.
- Google was founded1998. You were 4.
- Facebook launched2004. You were 10.
- The iPhone went on sale2007. You were 13.
- The iPad went on sale2010. You were 16.
So yes,
you’ve seen the worldchange a lot.
And you remember it.
Your 1994 story
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Where these numbers come from
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, all items, 1982-84=100
- U.S. Postal Service, Rates for Domestic Letters Since 1863
- U.S. Department of Labor, history of federal minimum wage rates
- U.S. Census Bureau, decennial census resident population
- Presidents and milestones: widely documented public records.