About ExpectedCosts

ExpectedCosts publishes what things cost, with the source attached to each figure.

The gap this site fills

A cost figure without a publisher, a period and a method is not evidence. It is a number someone typed. Nothing about it can be checked, nothing dates it, and it is often wrong by a wide margin. Most "average cost" pages are built exactly that way.

What this site does

We take values an authority actually published, such as a Bureau of Labor Statistics price series, a Statistics Canada consumer price index, a Freddie Mac mortgage survey or an IRS mileage rate, and reproduce them with the publisher, the reference period and a link to the original. Every row carries four things: the publisher, the source URL, the as-of date and the retrieval date.

Where no authority publishes a value, the page carries none and names the sources instead. Some pages therefore show no number at all. A page that admits a gap is worth more than a page that invents a figure to fill it.

What this site is not

It is not a lender, a broker, a contractor, an insurer, a law firm or a medical provider. We do not quote jobs and we do not decide credit. Some links are affiliate links, and each one is disclosed beside the link.

How the sheet is built

Every page is rendered from a database, so a correction is a change to data rather than a rewrite. Values are stored one row at a time, so a page shows what it holds and states what it lacks.