HR Compliance Library, ¶20,805, What is the Consumer Price Index (CPI)?

摘要

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urbanrnconsumers for a fixed market basket of consumer goods and services. The CPI provides a way to compare whatrnthis market basket of goods and services costs this month with what the same market basket cost, say, a monthrnor year ago.