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fyi, a change was made to the socialsecurity.tools page, so that one can now cut/paste any set of years and earnings from other tables or software. E.g. you can create a column of years and column for associated earnings and paste it in. The input no longer needs to come from your own SS...

I guess I should add that I started on the Motley Fool boards around 1999 or so? I spent a lot of time there for several years and then faded away. It's amazing how many screen names here are ones I remember from MF almost 20 years ago!

Note that all official SS calculators are "kinda" in today's dollars, in that they assume zero growth for both wages and price inflation. So if inflation=0, then by definition the output is in today's dollars, because it assumes today's dollars never change. The official SS detailed calculator...

Very long time lurker, felt compelled to register when there was a question which I knew I could answer that "no one" else could (was very specialized). I'm a physician half-time, and with the other half I work on behalf of a not-for-profit organization devoted to teaching financial literacy...

There is a free online SS calculator which allows one to enter assumptions for future CPI changes and also wage-inflation, but then gives the output in today's dollars. If one is not yet collecting a benefit, assumptions for wage inflation which do not exactly track CPI will change the benefit...