Price evolution of The New Yorker magazine in the United States

1. Relevance of the price of The New Yorker magazine
2. Price evolution of The New Yorker magazine
   1. Absolute price of The New Yorker magazine per year
   2. Inflation adjusted price of The New Yorker magazine per year
3. Conclusion
4. FAQs about The New Yorker magazine's price in the the United States
5. Price evolution table and full chart

Price evolution of The New Yorker magazine

The average price of The New Yorker magazine between 1960 and 2023 was $3.14, with the lowest price being $0.25 in 1960 and the highest $8.99 in 2016 (at least within the timeframe we have data for).

Absolute price of The New Yorker magazine per year

Our data source for this article was: Magazine covers .

The absolute price of The New Yorker magazine in the the United States has gone from $0.25 in 1960 to $8.99 in 2023. That's an absolute increase of $8.74, or 3496% in a period of 63 years. (go to the next section for inflation-adjusted values).

Now, if you are hoping for a decrease in the price of The New Yorker magazine in the future, don't hold your breath. Considering that the price has only increased during a period of 63 years (like literally every year), there's no reason to believe that trend will change any time soon.

The biggest price increase was $1, or 20.04% in 2010.

Inflation-adjusted price of The New Yorker magazine per year

As accurate as the information above might be, it can also be somehow deceiving. This is because the value of money changes over time, usually decreasing. That means that $1 of today's money cannot buy as much as $1 in the past. This phenomenon is called inflation, and can make it complicated to compare historical pricing data. Luckily, we can adjust for it and calculate what a dollar value of the past would be equal to in today's money.

So let's not take a look at the evolution of the price of The New Yorker magazine in the the United States, in that same 63 years period between 1960 and 2023, but adjusting prices to inflation (aka. in today's money).

When we adjust for inflation, we see that the price of The New Yorker magazine also peaked in 2016, when it cost $11.68 (in today's money), and was at its lowest in 1965 when it sold for $2.48.

Even when adjusting for inflation, the biggest price increase of The New Yorker magazine was still in 2010. However, the $1 jump actually felt like $1.46 to the consumer due, to the effect of inflation.

The average price of The New Yorker magazine during this period of time, adjusting for inflation, has been $5.87, and the most current price of $8.99 is 53.15% above that average.

Conclusion

The absolute price of The New Yorker magazine has increased by $2 ($28.61%) in the last decade, and $8.74 (3496%) since 1960. But that comes as no surprise, as prices always tend to increase over time due to inflation.

Now, as we've explained earlier, the absolute price of a product does not necessarily represent its affordability fairly. For that we have to look at its inflation adjusted price, or in other words, the price evolution in today's money.

When we look at the inflation-adjusted price of The New Yorker magazine, we see that it has varied ± 78.43% over this period of time, and is currently 53.27% more expensive than the average over these years .

Even when adjusting prices for inflation, The New Yorker magazine prices are still higher in 2023 than they were in 1960. And not just a bit more expensive, we are talking about a significant increase no matter how you look at it!

So if there had to be one single take away from this article it would be this: The average person has to make a bigger economic effort to purchase The New Yorker magazine today than in the past.

FAQs about the price of The New Yorker magazine in the the United States