---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 591.209"
title: "5"
number: "591.209"
heading: "What is a price index?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/591.209"
---

# §591.209. What is a price index?

- (a) **The price index is the COLA area price divided by the DC area price and multiplied by 100.**
- (b) **Example—** Computation:
- (c) **In the case of the final index, OPM rounds the index to two decimal places.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5941; E.O. 10000, 3 CFR, 1943-1948 Comp., p. 792; and E.O. 12510, 3 CFR, 1985 Comp., p. 338.

### Source

Source: 67 FR 22340, May 3, 2002, unless otherwise noted.