… it's $68,404 in today's dollars, according to BLS's inflation calc. (…your figure works out to a 26% per annum inflation rate. The $50k figure is in 2016 dol

… it's $68,404 in today's dollars, according to BLS's inflation calc. (…your figure works out to a 26% per annum inflation rate. The $50k figure is in 2016 dollars — "the sugar industry paid the Harvard scientists the equivalent of $50,000 in 2016 dollars".)