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NEWS RELEASE
EMBARGOED UNTIL RELEASE AT 8:30 A.M. EDT, MONDAY, JUNE 1, 2015
BEA 15-22
Technical: James Rankin
(202) 606-5301 (Personal Income)
Jason Chute
(202) 606-5302 (Personal Consumption Expenditures)
Media:
Jeannine Aversa (202) 606-2649

piniwd@bea.gov
pce@bea.gov

PERSONAL INCOME AND OUTLAYS: APRIL 2015
Personal income increased $59.4 billion, or 0.4 percent, and disposable personal income (DPI)
increased $48.8 billion, or 0.4 percent, in April, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) decreased $2.6 billion, or less than 0.1 percent. In March,
personal income increased $4.0 billion, or less than 0.1 percent, DPI increased $0.5 billion, or less
than 0.1 percent, and PCE increased $65.6 billion, or 0.5 percent, based on revised estimates.
Real DPI increased 0.3 percent in April, in contrast to a decrease of 0.2 percent in March.
Real PCE decreased less than 0.1 percent, in contrast to an increase of 0.4 percent.
2014
Dec.
Personal income, current dollars
Disposable personal income:
Current dollars
Chained (2009) dollars
Personal consumption expenditures:
Current dollars
Chained (2009) dollars

0.4

2015
Jan.
Feb.
Mar.
(Percent change from preceding month)
0.3
0.4
0.0

Apr.
0.4

0.3
0.6

0.2
0.6

0.4
0.3

0.0
-0.2

0.4
0.3

-0.2
0.1

-0.3
0.1

0.1
0.0

0.5
0.4

0.0
0.0

This news release presents revised estimates of wages and salaries, personal taxes, and contributions for
government social insurance for October through December 2014 (fourth quarter). These estimates
reflect the incorporation of the most recently available fourth-quarter wage and salary tabulations from
the quarterly census of employment and wages (QCEW) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
___________________
NOTE. Monthly estimates are expressed at seasonally adjusted annual rates, unless otherwise specified. Monthto-month dollar changes are differences between these published estimates. Month-to-month percent changes are
calculated from unrounded data and are not annualized. “Real” estimates are in chained (2009) dollars.

This news release is available on BEA’s Web site at www.bea.gov/newsreleases/rels.htm.

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Compensation
Wages and salaries increased $17.7 billion in April, compared with an increase of $9.5 billion in
March. Private wages and salaries increased $15.7 billion, compared with an increase of $8.4 billion.
Government wages and salaries increased $2.0 billion, compared with an increase of $1.0 billion.
Supplements to wages and salaries increased $4.3 billion in April, compared with an increase of $3.8
billion in March.
Other personal income
Proprietors' income increased $2.5 billion in April, in contrast to a decrease of $0.5 billion in March.
Farm proprietors' income increased $2.9 billion, in contrast to a decrease of $8.0 billion. Nonfarm
proprietors' income decreased $0.4 billion, in contrast to an increase of $7.5 billion.
Rental income of persons increased $3.9 billion in April, compared with an increase of $3.3 billion in
March. Personal income receipts on assets (personal interest income plus personal dividend income)
increased $26.6 billion, in contrast to a decrease of $30.9 billion. Personal current transfer receipts increased
$6.5 billion, compared with an increase of $19.7 billion.
Contributions for government social insurance -- a subtraction in calculating personal income -increased $2.2 billion in April, compared with an increase of $0.8 billion in March.

Personal current taxes and disposable personal income
Personal current taxes increased $10.6 billion in April, compared with an increase of $3.4 billion in
March. Disposable personal income (DPI) -- personal income less personal current taxes -- increased $48.8
billion, or 0.4 percent, in April, compared with an increase of $0.5 billion, or less than 0.1 percent, in March.

Personal outlays and personal saving
Personal outlays -- PCE, personal interest payments, and personal current transfer payments -decreased $2.7 billion in April, in contrast to an increase of $69.9 billion in March. PCE decreased $2.6
billion, in contrast to an increase of $65.6 billion.
Personal saving -- DPI less personal outlays -- was $744.0 billion in April, compared with $692.5
billion in March. The personal saving rate -- personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal
income -- was 5.6 percent in April, compared with 5.2 percent in March. For a comparison of personal
saving in BEA's national income and product accounts with personal saving in the Federal Reserve Board's
financial accounts of the United States and data on changes in net worth, go to
www.bea.gov/national/nipaweb/nipa-frb.asp.

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Real DPI, real PCE, and price index
Real DPI -- DPI adjusted to remove price changes -- increased 0.3 percent in April, in contrast to a
decrease of 0.2 percent in March.
Real PCE -- PCE adjusted to remove price changes -- decreased less than 0.1 percent in April, in
contrast to an increase of 0.4 percent in March. Purchases of durable goods decreased 0.8 percent, in
contrast to an increase of 2.1 percent. Purchases of motor vehicles and parts accounted for most of the
decrease in April, and for about half of the increase in March. Purchases of nondurable goods decreased 0.1
percent in April, in contrast to an increase of 0.4 percent in March. Purchases of services increased 0.1
percent in April, the same increase as in March.
The price index for PCE increased less than 0.1 percent in April, compared with an increase of 0.2
percent in March. The PCE price index, excluding food and energy, increased 0.1 percent in April, the same
increase as in March.
The April price index for PCE increased 0.1 percent from April a year ago. The April PCE price
index, excluding food and energy, increased 1.2 percent from April a year ago.

Revisions
Estimates for personal income and DPI have been revised for October through March; estimates for
PCE have been revised for January through March. Changes in personal income, in current-dollar and
chained (2009) dollar DPI, and in current-dollar and chained (2009) dollar PCE for February and March -revised and as published in last month's release -- are shown below.
Estimates of wages and salaries were revised from October through March. The revision to fourthquarter wages and salaries reflected the incorporation of the most recently available BLS tabulations of
fourth-quarter wages and salaries from the QCEW. Revised estimates for January, February, and March
reflect extrapolations from the revised fourth-quarter level of wages. In addition, revisions to February and
March reflect revised BLS employment, hours, and earnings data for those months.
Change from preceding month
February
Previous Revised
(Billions of dollars)

Personal income:
Current dollars
Disposable personal income:
Current dollars
Chained (2009) dollars
Personal consumption expenditures:
Current dollars
Chained (2009) dollars

March

Previous Revised
(Percent)

Previous Revised
(Billions of dollars)

Previous Revised
(Percent)

66.4

61.3

0.4

0.4

6.2

4.0

0.0

0.0

61.2
35.2

56.6
31.4

0.5
0.3

0.4
0.3

1.6
-19.5

0.5
-18.8

0.0
-0.2

0.0
-0.2

20.8
-0.2

15.1
-4.9

0.2
0.0

0.1
0.0

53.4
30.1

65.6
42.8

0.4
0.3

0.5
0.4

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Upcoming Annual Revision of the National Income and Product Accounts

As part of the annual revision of the national income and product accounts, revised estimates of
personal income and outlays will be released in conjunction with preliminary estimates for June 2015 on
August 3, 2015. In addition to the regular revision of estimates for the most recent 3 years and for the first 5
months of 2015, personal income and select components will be revised back further. The June Survey of
Current Business will contain an article that previews the annual revision, and the August Survey will
contain an article that describes the results.

BEA's national, international, regional, and industry estimates; BEA news releases; and related
articles in the Survey of Current Business are available for free on BEA's Web site at www.bea.gov. The
entire historical time series for these estimates can be accessed in BEA's Interactive Data Application at
www.bea.gov/itable/. Stay informed about BEA developments by signing up for our email subscription
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BEA's news release schedule is available at www.bea.gov/newsreleases/2015rd.htm.

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Next release – June 25, 2015 at 8:30 A.M. EDT for
Personal Income and Outlays for May

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Table 1. Personal Income and Its Disposition (Months)
[Billions of dollars]
Seasonally adjusted at annual rates
Line

2014
Sept.

1 Personal income......................................................................................
2 Compensation of employees ..............................................................
3
Wages and salaries ..........................................................................
4
Private industries.............................................................................
5
Goods-producing industries.........................................................
6
Manufacturing ...........................................................................
7
Services-producing industries......................................................
8
Trade, transportation, and utilities.............................................
9
Other services-producing industries.........................................
10
Government.....................................................................................
11
Supplements to wages and salaries...............................................
12
Employer contributions for employee pension and insurance
funds 1 ...........................................................................................
13
Employer contributions for government social insurance ................
14 Proprietors’ income with inventory valuation and capital
consumption adjustments...............................................................
15
Farm ...................................................................................................
16
Nonfarm..............................................................................................
17 Rental income of persons with capital consumption adjustment...
18 Personal income receipts on assets..................................................
19
Personal interest income ....................................................................
20
Personal dividend income...................................................................
21 Personal current transfer receipts .....................................................
22
Government social benefits to persons ..............................................
23
Social security 2 ..............................................................................
24
Medicare 3 .......................................................................................
25
Medicaid..........................................................................................
26
Unemployment insurance................................................................
27
Veterans’ benefits............................................................................
28
Other ...............................................................................................
29
Other current transfer receipts, from business (net) ...........................
30 Less: Contributions for government social insurance, domestic...
31 Less: Personal current taxes .................................................................
32 Equals: Disposable personal income ...................................................
33 Less: Personal outlays ...........................................................................
34 Personal consumption expenditures ......................................................
35
Goods.................................................................................................
36
Durable goods.................................................................................
37
Nondurable goods ...........................................................................
38
Services..............................................................................................
39 Personal interest payments 4 .................................................................
40 Personal current transfer payments .......................................................
41
To government....................................................................................
42
To the rest of the world (net)...............................................................
43 Equals: Personal saving.........................................................................
44 Personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income
Addenda:
45 Personal income excluding current transfer receipts, billions of
chained (2009) dollars 5 ...................................................................
Disposable personal income:
46
Total, billions of chained (2009) dollars 5 ............................................
Per capita:
47
Current dollars.................................................................................
48
Chained (2009) dollars....................................................................
49 Population (midperiod, thousands) 6......................................................

Oct.

r

2015
Nov.

r

Dec.

r

Jan.

r

Feb.

r

Line

March

r

April

p

14,850.0 14,915.9 14,984.3 15,037.7 15,087.0 15,148.3 15,152.3 15,211.7 1
9,296.3 9,338.6 9,412.7 9,431.2 9,482.3 9,508.3 9,521.4 9,543.5 2
7,509.5 7,546.8 7,613.5 7,628.1 7,671.1 7,692.1 7,701.6 7,719.3 3
6,282.7 6,318.9 6,383.9 6,396.8 6,436.8 6,455.5 6,463.9 6,479.6 4
1,273.5 1,286.8 1,300.5 1,298.5 1,306.8 1,307.1 1,309.3 1,310.8 5
781.1
789.1
796.5
794.8
799.4
799.5
799.4
799.8 6
5,009.2 5,032.1 5,083.5 5,098.3 5,129.9 5,148.4 5,154.6 5,168.8 7
1,180.1 1,188.8 1,203.2 1,209.3 1,214.9 1,222.4 1,220.5 1,223.9 8
3,829.1 3,843.3 3,880.3 3,889.0 3,915.1 3,926.0 3,934.1 3,944.8 9
1,226.8 1,227.9 1,229.6 1,231.2 1,234.4 1,236.7 1,237.7 1,239.7 10
1,786.8 1,791.9 1,799.2 1,803.1 1,811.2 1,816.1 1,819.9 1,824.2 11
1,233.5
553.3

1,236.5
555.4

1,239.4
559.9

1,242.4
560.7

1,246.5
564.8

1,250.3
565.9

1,253.7
566.2

1,257.1 12
567.1 13

1,382.3 1,400.7 1,396.2 1,410.5 1,396.8 1,387.0 1,386.5 1,389.0 14
52.3
56.5
60.7
65.0
57.0
49.1
41.1
44.0 15
1,330.0 1,344.2 1,335.5 1,345.5 1,339.8 1,337.9 1,345.4 1,345.0 16
650.8
653.2
655.1
659.6
660.1
662.5
665.8
669.7 17
2,137.8 2,141.2 2,146.3 2,149.1 2,142.7 2,172.8 2,141.9 2,168.5 18
1,262.3 1,261.1 1,259.9 1,258.8 1,252.3 1,245.9 1,239.4 1,255.5 19
875.5
880.0
886.3
890.4
890.4
926.9
902.5
913.1 20
2,553.1 2,557.2 2,557.9 2,572.9 2,598.7 2,614.0 2,633.7 2,640.2 21
2,508.3 2,512.1 2,512.5 2,527.3 2,553.1 2,568.1 2,587.6 2,593.7 22
839.3
839.7
841.9
850.3
860.0
859.5
865.3
867.6 23
593.2
591.1
590.3
593.3
595.6
599.2
597.3
603.9 24
504.9
506.5
504.9
507.2
515.5
523.1
529.7
526.8 25
34.2
34.0
34.0
34.1
33.9
33.9
33.2
32.5 26
84.2
86.2
86.7
87.4
88.6
89.3
90.2
91.2 27
452.5
454.6
454.8
455.0
459.5
463.0
471.9
471.7 28
44.8
45.1
45.3
45.6
45.6
45.9
46.2
46.4 29
1,170.3 1,175.0 1,183.9 1,185.7 1,193.6 1,196.2 1,197.0 1,199.2 30
1,763.5 1,781.6 1,802.3 1,811.7 1,839.5 1,844.3 1,847.7 1,858.3 31
13,086.5 13,134.2 13,182.0 13,225.9 13,247.5 13,304.1 13,304.6 13,353.4 32
12,480.5 12,536.3 12,582.3 12,562.3 12,522.8 12,542.2 12,612.1 12,609.4 33
12,044.6 12,096.4 12,142.2 12,122.0 12,080.8 12,095.9 12,161.5 12,158.9 34
4,011.2 4,018.7 4,026.9 3,978.4 3,915.4 3,903.0 3,950.0 3,928.6 35
1,321.4 1,321.9 1,342.1 1,323.0 1,325.1 1,311.3 1,335.8 1,326.5 36
2,689.8 2,696.7 2,684.7 2,655.4 2,590.3 2,591.7 2,614.1 2,602.2 37
8,033.4 8,077.8 8,115.4 8,143.7 8,165.4 8,192.8 8,211.5 8,230.3 38
265.4
265.3
265.2
265.1
269.3
273.6
277.9
277.9 39
170.5
174.5
174.9
175.2
172.7
172.7
172.7
172.7 40
95.6
95.9
96.2
96.6
97.7
97.8
97.8
97.8 41
74.9
78.6
78.6
78.6
74.9
74.9
74.9
74.9 42
606.0
598.0
599.8
663.6
724.7
761.9
692.5
744.0 43
4.6
4.6
4.5
5.0
5.5
5.7
5.2
5.6 44

11,266.3 11,317.6 11,397.7 11,459.6 11,535.0 11,558.1 11,525.3 11,571.1 45
11,989.8 12,027.9 12,090.7 12,159.4 12,236.3 12,267.7 12,248.9 12,290.7 46
40,934
37,504
319,696

41,056
37,598
319,909

41,180
37,771
320,107

41,294
37,964
320,284

41,340
38,185
320,450

41,495
38,262
320,621

41,474
38,183
320,797

41,603 47
38,292 48
320,975 49

p Preliminary
r Revised. Revisions include changes to series affected by the incorporation of revised wage and salary estimates for the fourth quarter of 2014.
1. Includes actual employer contributions and actuarially imputed employer contributions to reflect benefits accrued by defined benefit pension plan participants through service to employers in the current period.
2. Social security benefits include old-age, survivors, and disability insurance benefits that are distributed from the federal old-age and survivors insurance trust fund and the disability insurance trust fund.
3. Medicare benefits include hospital and supplementary medical insurance benefits that are distributed from the federal hospital insurance trust fund and the supplementary medical insurance trust fund.
4. Consists of nonmortgage interest paid by households.
5. The current-dollar measure is deflated by the implicit price deflator for personal consumption expenditures.
6. Population is the total population of the United States, including the Armed Forces overseas and the institutionalized population. The monthly estimate is the average of estimates for the first of the month and the
first of the following month; the annual and quarterly estimates are averages of the monthly estimates.

Table 2. Personal Income and Its Disposition (Years and Quarters)
[Billions of dollars]
Seasonally adjusted at annual rates
Line

2013

2014 r

2013
IV

1 Personal income......................................................................................
2 Compensation of employees ..............................................................
3
Wages and salaries ..........................................................................
4
Private industries.............................................................................
5
Goods-producing industries.........................................................
6
Manufacturing ...........................................................................
7
Services-producing industries......................................................
8
Trade, transportation, and utilities.............................................
9
Other services-producing industries.........................................
10
Government.....................................................................................
11
Supplements to wages and salaries...............................................
12
Employer contributions for employee pension and insurance
funds 1 ...........................................................................................
13
Employer contributions for government social insurance ................
14 Proprietors’ income with inventory valuation and capital
consumption adjustments...............................................................
15
Farm ...................................................................................................
16
Nonfarm..............................................................................................
17 Rental income of persons with capital consumption adjustment...
18 Personal income receipts on assets..................................................
19
Personal interest income ....................................................................
20
Personal dividend income...................................................................
21 Personal current transfer receipts .....................................................
22
Government social benefits to persons ..............................................
23
Social security 2 ..............................................................................
24
Medicare 3 .......................................................................................
25
Medicaid..........................................................................................
26
Unemployment insurance................................................................
27
Veterans’ benefits............................................................................
28
Other ...............................................................................................
29
Other current transfer receipts, from business (net) ...........................
30 Less: Contributions for government social insurance, domestic...
31 Less: Personal current taxes .................................................................
32 Equals: Disposable personal income ...................................................
33 Less: Personal outlays ...........................................................................
34 Personal consumption expenditures ......................................................
35
Goods.................................................................................................
36
Durable goods.................................................................................
37
Nondurable goods ...........................................................................
38
Services..............................................................................................
39 Personal interest payments 4 .................................................................
40 Personal current transfer payments .......................................................
41
To government....................................................................................
42
To the rest of the world (net)...............................................................
43 Equals: Personal saving.........................................................................
44 Personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income
Addenda:
45 Personal income excluding current transfer receipts, billions of
chained (2009) dollars 5 ...................................................................
Disposable personal income:
46
Total, billions of chained (2009) dollars 5 ............................................
Per capita:
47
Current dollars.................................................................................
48
Chained (2009) dollars....................................................................
49 Population (midperiod, thousands) 6 .....................................................

2014
I

II

2015
III

IV

r

I

Line

r

14,166.9 14,733.9 14,311.7 14,484.7 14,660.5 14,811.2 14,979.3 15,129.2 1
8,844.8 9,227.6 8,946.8 9,096.2 9,159.5 9,260.7 9,394.2 9,504.0 2
7,124.7 7,451.6 7,208.5 7,339.8 7,391.7 7,478.9 7,596.1 7,688.3 3
5,916.6 6,229.5 5,998.5 6,125.3 6,172.1 6,254.2 6,366.6 6,452.0 4
1,195.3 1,264.2 1,210.6 1,238.0 1,254.5 1,268.9 1,295.2 1,307.7 5
747.6
778.8
754.1
769.5
773.7
778.6
793.5
799.5 6
4,721.3 4,965.4 4,787.9 4,887.3 4,917.5 4,985.3 5,071.3 5,144.3 7
1,121.3 1,174.1 1,134.9 1,154.9 1,165.0 1,176.1 1,200.4 1,219.3 8
3,600.0 3,791.3 3,653.0 3,732.4 3,752.6 3,809.2 3,870.9 3,925.0 9
1,208.1 1,222.1 1,210.0 1,214.5 1,219.7 1,224.7 1,229.6 1,236.2 10
1,720.1 1,776.0 1,738.3 1,756.4 1,767.8 1,781.8 1,798.1 1,815.7 11
1,193.9
526.1

1,226.4
549.6

1,206.8
531.5

1,213.6
542.8

1,222.0
545.7

1,230.5
551.3

1,239.4
558.7

1,250.1 12
565.6 13

1,336.6 1,380.2 1,342.7 1,351.0 1,381.0 1,386.4 1,402.5 1,390.1 14
83.2
63.6
70.1
58.1
73.4
62.2
60.7
49.1 15
1,253.5 1,316.6 1,272.6 1,292.9 1,307.6 1,324.2 1,341.7 1,341.0 16
595.8
640.2
613.3
622.9
635.4
646.7
656.0
662.8 17
2,079.7 2,125.3 2,094.2 2,090.4 2,127.0 2,138.3 2,145.5 2,152.5 18
1,255.2 1,264.7 1,263.2 1,262.4 1,270.0 1,266.5 1,259.9 1,245.8 19
824.5
860.6
831.0
828.0
857.0
871.8
885.6
906.6 20
2,414.5 2,522.7 2,432.3 2,470.9 2,511.8 2,545.3 2,562.7 2,615.5 21
2,372.2 2,478.5 2,389.7 2,427.8 2,468.0 2,500.8 2,517.3 2,569.6 22
799.0
834.6
808.9
824.5
833.0
837.1
844.0
861.6 23
572.4
587.8
577.3
582.6
586.2
590.8
591.6
597.3 24
441.1
489.6
448.7
467.6
482.5
502.0
506.2
522.8 25
62.2
36.9
56.1
41.4
37.2
35.1
34.0
33.7 26
79.0
84.5
81.6
83.4
83.4
84.6
86.8
89.3 27
418.5
445.0
417.1
428.4
445.7
451.2
454.8
464.8 28
42.3
44.2
42.6
43.1
43.8
44.5
45.3
45.9 29
1,104.5 1,162.1 1,117.5 1,146.6 1,154.2 1,166.1 1,181.5 1,195.6 30
1,661.8 1,743.9 1,688.1 1,711.8 1,715.3 1,750.1 1,798.6 1,843.8 31
12,505.1 12,990.0 12,623.7 12,772.9 12,945.2 13,061.2 13,180.7 13,285.4 32
11,897.1 12,357.5 12,070.8 12,146.9 12,289.6 12,433.0 12,560.3 12,559.0 33
11,484.3 11,930.3 11,653.3 11,728.5 11,870.7 12,002.0 12,120.2 12,112.7 34
3,851.2 3,968.7 3,886.1 3,890.6 3,964.5 4,011.5 4,008.0 3,922.8 35
1,249.3 1,302.5 1,261.5 1,262.3 1,298.4 1,320.2 1,329.0 1,324.1 36
2,601.9 2,666.2 2,624.6 2,628.4 2,666.1 2,691.3 2,679.0 2,598.7 37
7,633.2 7,961.7 7,767.2 7,837.8 7,906.2 7,990.4 8,112.3 8,189.9 38
247.1
256.8
250.8
249.8
251.3
260.9
265.2
273.6 39
165.6
170.3
166.7
168.6
167.5
170.2
174.9
172.7 40
91.4
94.8
92.2
93.3
94.3
95.3
96.2
97.8 41
74.3
75.6
74.5
75.4
73.3
74.9
78.6
74.9 42
608.1
632.6
552.9
626.1
655.6
628.1
620.4
726.4 43
4.9
4.9
4.4
4.9
5.1
4.8
4.7
5.5 44

10,949.5 11,227.3 11,021.2 11,108.2 11,168.1 11,241.5 11,391.6 11,539.4 45
11,650.8 11,943.3 11,711.7 11,810.1 11,900.4 11,970.3 12,092.6 12,250.9 46
39,468
36,772
316,839

40,699
37,420
319,173

39,726
36,856
317,765

40,130
37,105
318,288

40,602
37,325
318,833

40,884
37,469
319,470

41,177
37,778
320,100

41,436 47
38,210 48
320,623 49

r Revised. Revisions include changes to series affected by the incorporation of revised wage and salary estimates for the fourth quarter of 2014.
1. Includes actual employer contributions and actuarially imputed employer contributions to reflect benefits accrued by defined benefit pension plan participants through service to employers in the current period.
2. Social security benefits include old-age, survivors, and disability insurance benefits that are distributed from the federal old-age and survivors insurance trust fund and the disability insurance trust fund.
3. Medicare benefits include hospital and supplementary medical insurance benefits that are distributed from the federal hospital insurance trust fund and the supplementary medical insurance trust fund.
4. Consists of nonmortgage interest paid by households.
5. The current-dollar measure is deflated by the implicit price deflator for personal consumption expenditures.
6. Population is the total population of the United States, including the Armed Forces overseas and the institutionalized population. The monthly estimate is the average of estimates for the first of the month and the
first of the following month; the annual and quarterly estimates are averages of the monthly estimates.

Table 3. Personal Income and Its Disposition, Change from Preceding Period (Months)
[Billions of dollars]
Seasonally adjusted at annual rates
Line

2014
Sept.

1 Personal income......................................................................................
2 Compensation of employees ..............................................................
3
Wages and salaries ..........................................................................
4
Private industries.............................................................................
5
Goods-producing industries.........................................................
6
Manufacturing ...........................................................................
7
Services-producing industries......................................................
8
Trade, transportation, and utilities.............................................
9
Other services-producing industries.........................................
10
Government.....................................................................................
11
Supplements to wages and salaries...............................................
12
Employer contributions for employee pension and insurance
funds 1 ...........................................................................................
13
Employer contributions for government social insurance ................
14 Proprietors’ income with inventory valuation and capital
consumption adjustments...............................................................
15
Farm ...................................................................................................
16
Nonfarm..............................................................................................
17 Rental income of persons with capital consumption adjustment...
18 Personal income receipts on assets..................................................
19
Personal interest income ....................................................................
20
Personal dividend income...................................................................
21 Personal current transfer receipts .....................................................
22
Government social benefits to persons ..............................................
23
Social security 2 ..............................................................................
24
Medicare 3 .......................................................................................
25
Medicaid..........................................................................................
26
Unemployment insurance................................................................
27
Veterans’ benefits............................................................................
28
Other ...............................................................................................
29
Other current transfer receipts, from business (net) ...........................
30 Less: Contributions for government social insurance, domestic...
31 Less: Personal current taxes .................................................................
32 Equals: Disposable personal income ...................................................
33 Less: Personal outlays ...........................................................................
34 Personal consumption expenditures ......................................................
35
Goods.................................................................................................
36
Durable goods.................................................................................
37
Nondurable goods ...........................................................................
38
Services..............................................................................................
39 Personal interest payments 4 .................................................................
40 Personal current transfer payments .......................................................
41
To government....................................................................................
42
To the rest of the world (net)...............................................................
43 Equals: Personal saving.........................................................................
Addenda:
44 Personal income excluding current transfer receipts, billions of chained
(2009) dollars 5 ...................................................................................
45 Disposable personal income, billions of chained (2009) dollars 5 ..........

Oct.

r

2015
Nov.

r

Dec.

r

Jan.

r

Feb.

r

Line

March

r

April

p

29.0
25.1
20.8
18.4
2.9
1.5
15.5
1.2
14.3
2.3
4.4

65.9
42.3
37.3
36.2
13.3
8.0
22.9
8.7
14.2
1.1
5.1

68.4
74.1
66.7
65.0
13.7
7.4
51.4
14.4
37.0
1.7
7.3

53.4
18.5
14.6
12.9
–2.0
–1.7
14.8
6.1
8.7
1.6
3.9

49.3
51.1
43.0
40.0
8.3
4.6
31.6
5.6
26.1
3.2
8.1

61.3
26.0
21.0
18.7
0.3
0.1
18.5
7.5
10.9
2.3
4.9

4.0
13.1
9.5
8.4
2.2
–0.1
6.2
–1.9
8.1
1.0
3.8

59.4 1
22.1 2
17.7 3
15.7 4
1.5 5
0.4 6
14.2 7
3.4 8
10.7 9
2.0 10
4.3 11

3.0
1.4

3.0
2.1

2.9
4.5

3.0
0.8

4.1
4.1

3.8
1.1

3.4
0.3

3.4 12
0.9 13

–1.0
–9.9
8.9
3.6
0.0
–4.2
4.2
4.1
3.8
1.1
2.3
0.4
–1.4
–0.2
1.6
0.3
2.8
10.9
18.1
32.5
27.6
–14.2
–12.2
–2.0
41.8
4.5
0.3
0.3
0.0
–14.4

18.4
4.2
14.2
2.4
3.4
–1.2
4.5
4.1
3.8
0.4
–2.1
1.6
–0.2
2.0
2.1
0.3
4.7
18.1
47.7
55.8
51.8
7.5
0.5
6.9
44.4
–0.1
4.0
0.3
3.7
–8.0

–4.5
4.2
–8.7
1.9
5.1
–1.2
6.3
0.7
0.4
2.2
–0.8
–1.6
0.0
0.5
0.2
0.2
8.9
20.7
47.8
46.0
45.8
8.2
20.2
–12.0
37.6
–0.1
0.4
0.3
0.0
1.8

14.3
4.3
10.0
4.5
2.8
–1.1
4.1
15.0
14.8
8.4
3.0
2.3
0.1
0.7
0.2
0.3
1.8
9.4
43.9
–20.0
–20.2
–48.5
–19.1
–29.3
28.3
–0.1
0.3
0.4
0.0
63.8

–13.7
–8.0
–5.7
0.5
–6.4
–6.5
0.0
25.8
25.8
9.7
2.3
8.3
–0.2
1.2
4.5
0.0
7.9
27.8
21.6
–39.5
–41.2
–63.0
2.1
–65.1
21.7
4.2
–2.5
1.1
–3.7
61.1

–9.8
–7.9
–1.9
2.4
30.1
–6.4
36.5
15.3
15.0
–0.5
3.6
7.6
0.0
0.7
3.5
0.3
2.6
4.8
56.6
19.4
15.1
–12.4
–13.8
1.4
27.4
4.3
0.0
0.1
0.0
37.2

–0.5
–8.0
7.5
3.3
–30.9
–6.5
–24.4
19.7
19.5
5.8
–1.9
6.6
–0.7
0.9
8.9
0.3
0.8
3.4
0.5
69.9
65.6
47.0
24.5
22.4
18.7
4.3
0.0
0.0
0.0
–69.4

14.8
8.1

51.3
38.1

80.1
62.8

61.9
68.7

75.4
76.9

23.1
31.4

–32.8
–18.8

2.5
2.9
–0.4
3.9
26.6
16.1
10.6
6.5
6.1
2.3
6.6
–2.9
–0.7
1.0
–0.2
0.2
2.2
10.6
48.8
–2.7
–2.6
–21.4
–9.3
–11.9
18.8
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
51.5

14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43

45.8 44
41.8 45

p Preliminary
r Revised. Revisions include changes to series affected by the incorporation of revised wage and salary estimates for the fourth quarter of 2014.
1. Includes actual employer contributions and actuarially imputed employer contributions to reflect benefits accrued by defined benefit pension plan participants through service to employers in the current period.
2. Social security benefits include old-age, survivors, and disability insurance benefits that are distributed from the federal old-age and survivors insurance trust fund and the disability insurance trust fund.
3. Medicare benefits include hospital and supplementary medical insurance benefits that are distributed from the federal hospital insurance trust fund and the supplementary medical insurance trust fund.
4. Consists of nonmortgage interest paid by households.
5. The current-dollar measure is deflated by the implicit price deflator for personal consumption expenditures.

Table 4. Personal Income and Its Disposition, Change from Preceding Period (Years and Quarters)
[Billions of dollars]
Seasonally adjusted at annual rates
Line

2013

2014 r

2013
IV

1 Personal income......................................................................................
2 Compensation of employees ..............................................................
3
Wages and salaries ..........................................................................
4
Private industries.............................................................................
5
Goods-producing industries.........................................................
6
Manufacturing ...........................................................................
7
Services-producing industries......................................................
8
Trade, transportation, and utilities.............................................
9
Other services-producing industries.........................................
10
Government.....................................................................................
11
Supplements to wages and salaries...............................................
12
Employer contributions for employee pension and insurance
funds 1 ...........................................................................................
13
Employer contributions for government social insurance ................
14 Proprietors’ income with inventory valuation and capital
consumption adjustments...............................................................
15
Farm ...................................................................................................
16
Nonfarm..............................................................................................
17 Rental income of persons with capital consumption adjustment...
18 Personal income receipts on assets..................................................
19
Personal interest income ....................................................................
20
Personal dividend income...................................................................
21 Personal current transfer receipts .....................................................
22
Government social benefits to persons ..............................................
23
Social security 2 ..............................................................................
24
Medicare 3 .......................................................................................
25
Medicaid..........................................................................................
26
Unemployment insurance................................................................
27
Veterans’ benefits............................................................................
28
Other ...............................................................................................
29
Other current transfer receipts, from business (net) ...........................
30 Less: Contributions for government social insurance, domestic...
31 Less: Personal current taxes .................................................................
32 Equals: Disposable personal income ...................................................
33 Less: Personal outlays ...........................................................................
34 Personal consumption expenditures ......................................................
35
Goods.................................................................................................
36
Durable goods.................................................................................
37
Nondurable goods ...........................................................................
38
Services..............................................................................................
39 Personal interest payments 4 .................................................................
40 Personal current transfer payments .......................................................
41
To government....................................................................................
42
To the rest of the world (net)...............................................................
43 Equals: Personal saving.........................................................................
Addenda:
44 Personal income excluding current transfer receipts, billions of chained
(2009) dollars 5 ...................................................................................
45 Disposable personal income, billions of chained (2009) dollars 5..........

2014

2015

I

II

III

IV

r

I

Line

r

279.2
238.3
192.6
182.8
38.2
13.2
144.6
27.3
117.3
9.8
45.7

567.0
382.8
326.9
312.9
68.9
31.2
244.1
52.8
191.3
14.0
55.9

64.3
75.2
63.2
58.8
13.8
6.9
45.0
12.2
32.8
4.4
12.1

173.0
149.4
131.3
126.8
27.4
15.4
99.4
20.0
79.4
4.5
18.1

175.8
63.3
51.9
46.8
16.5
4.2
30.2
10.1
20.2
5.2
11.4

150.7
101.2
87.2
82.1
14.4
4.9
67.8
11.1
56.6
5.0
14.0

168.1
133.5
117.2
112.4
26.3
14.9
86.0
24.3
61.7
4.9
16.3

149.9 1
109.8 2
92.2 3
85.4 4
12.5 5
6.0 6
73.0 7
18.9 8
54.1 9
6.6 10
17.6 11

33.4
12.2

32.5
23.5

8.0
4.0

6.8
11.3

8.4
2.9

8.5
5.6

8.9
7.4

10.7 12
6.9 13

76.4
10.9
65.6
62.8
–8.9
–0.7
–8.2
63.8
64.6
36.9
17.2
23.9
–21.4
8.9
–0.8
–0.8
153.3
158.1
121.1
409.2
401.2
109.3
57.2
52.1
291.9
5.5
2.5
1.4
1.2
–288.1

43.6
–19.6
63.1
44.4
45.6
9.5
36.1
108.2
106.3
35.6
15.4
48.5
–25.3
5.5
26.5
1.9
57.6
82.1
484.9
460.4
446.0
117.5
53.2
64.3
328.5
9.7
4.7
3.4
1.3
24.5

–3.2
–16.7
13.4
9.1
–12.7
4.7
–17.4
5.7
5.7
6.4
4.3
–1.3
–3.2
1.5
–2.0
0.1
9.7
26.6
37.9
137.7
134.6
20.8
9.1
11.7
113.8
0.0
3.1
0.7
2.3
–99.9

8.3
–12.0
20.3
9.6
–3.8
–0.8
–3.0
38.6
38.1
15.6
5.3
18.9
–14.7
1.8
11.3
0.5
29.1
23.7
149.2
76.1
75.2
4.5
0.8
3.8
70.6
–1.0
1.9
1.1
0.9
73.2

30.0
15.3
14.7
12.5
36.6
7.6
29.0
40.9
40.2
8.5
3.6
14.9
–4.2
0.0
17.3
0.7
7.6
3.5
172.3
142.7
142.2
73.9
36.1
37.7
68.4
1.5
–1.1
1.0
–2.1
29.5

5.4
–11.2
16.6
11.3
11.3
–3.5
14.8
33.5
32.8
4.1
4.6
19.5
–2.1
1.2
5.5
0.7
11.9
34.8
116.0
143.4
131.3
47.0
21.8
25.2
84.2
9.6
2.7
1.0
1.6
–27.5

16.1
–1.5
17.5
9.3
7.2
–6.6
13.8
17.4
16.5
6.9
0.8
4.2
–1.1
2.2
3.6
0.8
15.4
48.5
119.5
127.3
118.2
–3.5
8.8
–12.3
121.9
4.3
4.7
0.9
3.7
–7.7

–12.4
–11.6
–0.7
6.8
7.0
–14.1
21.0
52.8
52.3
17.6
5.7
16.6
–0.3
2.5
10.0
0.6
14.1
45.2
104.7
–1.3
–7.5
–85.2
–4.9
–80.3
77.6
8.4
–2.2
1.6
–3.7
106.0

71.9
–25.4

277.8
292.5

26.9
5.8

87.0
98.4

59.9
90.3

73.4
69.9

150.1
122.3

147.8 44
158.3 45

14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43

r Revised. Revisions include changes to series affected by the incorporation of revised wage and salary estimates for the fourth quarter of 2014.
1. Includes actual employer contributions and actuarially imputed employer contributions to reflect benefits accrued by defined benefit pension plan participants through service to employers in the current period.
2. Social security benefits include old-age, survivors, and disability insurance benefits that are distributed from the federal old-age and survivors insurance trust fund and the disability insurance trust fund.
3. Medicare benefits include hospital and supplementary medical insurance benefits that are distributed from the federal hospital insurance trust fund and the supplementary medical insurance trust fund.
4. Consists of nonmortgage interest paid by households.
5. The current-dollar measure is deflated by the implicit price deflator for personal consumption expenditures.

Table 5. Personal Income and Its Disposition, Percent Change from Preceding Period (Months)
Seasonally adjusted at monthly rates
Line

2014
Sept.

Oct.

r

2015
Nov.

r

Dec.

r

Jan.

r

Feb.

r

Line
March

r

April

p

Based on current-dollar measures
1 Personal income.........................................................................
2 Compensation of employees ....................................................
3
Wages and salaries ...............................................................
4
Supplements to wages and salaries......................................
5 Proprietors’ income with inventory valuation and capital
consumption adjustments......................................................
6 Rental income of persons with capital consumption adjustment
7 Personal income receipts on assets .........................................
8
Personal interest income .......................................................
9
Personal dividend income......................................................
10 Personal current transfer receipts .............................................
11 Less: Contributions for government social insurance, domestic
12 Less: Personal current taxes ....................................................
13 Equals: Disposable personal income ......................................
Addenda:
14 Personal consumption expenditures .........................................
15
Goods....................................................................................
16
Durable goods....................................................................
17
Nondurable goods ..............................................................
18
Services.................................................................................

0.2
0.3
0.3
0.2

0.4
0.5
0.5
0.3

0.5
0.8
0.9
0.4

0.4
0.2
0.2
0.2

0.3
0.5
0.6
0.4

0.4
0.3
0.3
0.3

0.0
0.1
0.1
0.2

0.4
0.2
0.2
0.2

1
2
3
4

–0.1
0.6
0.0
–0.3
0.5
0.2
0.2
0.6
0.1

1.3
0.4
0.2
–0.1
0.5
0.2
0.4
1.0
0.4

–0.3
0.3
0.2
–0.1
0.7
0.0
0.8
1.2
0.4

1.0
0.7
0.1
–0.1
0.5
0.6
0.2
0.5
0.3

–1.0
0.1
–0.3
–0.5
0.0
1.0
0.7
1.5
0.2

–0.7
0.4
1.4
–0.5
4.1
0.6
0.2
0.3
0.4

0.0
0.5
–1.4
–0.5
–2.6
0.8
0.1
0.2
0.0

0.2
0.6
1.2
1.3
1.2
0.2
0.2
0.6
0.4

5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13

0.2
–0.4
–0.9
–0.1
0.5

0.4
0.2
0.0
0.3
0.6

0.4
0.2
1.5
–0.4
0.5

–0.2
–1.2
–1.4
–1.1
0.3

–0.3
–1.6
0.2
–2.5
0.3

0.1
–0.3
–1.0
0.1
0.3

0.5
1.2
1.9
0.9
0.2

0.0
–0.5
–0.7
–0.5
0.2

14
15
16
17
18

0.5
0.6

0.7
0.6

0.2
0.3

–0.3
–0.2

Based on chained (2009) dollar measures
19
20

Real personal income excluding current transfer receipts ........
Real disposable personal income.............................................

0.1
0.1

0.5
0.3

0.7
0.5

0.4 19
0.3 20

p Preliminary
r Revised. Revisions include changes to series affected by the incorporation of revised wage and salary estimates for the fourth quarter of 2014.

Table 6. Personal Income and Its Disposition, Percent Change from Preceding Period (Years and Quarters)
Seasonally adjusted at annual rates
Line

2013

2014

r

2013
IV

2014
I

II

2015
III

IV

r

I

Line

r

Based on current-dollar measures
1 Personal income.........................................................................
2 Compensation of employees ....................................................
3
Wages and salaries ...............................................................
4
Supplements to wages and salaries......................................
5 Proprietors’ income with inventory valuation and capital
consumption adjustments......................................................
6 Rental income of persons with capital consumption adjustment
7 Personal income receipts on assets .........................................
8
Personal interest income .......................................................
9
Personal dividend income......................................................
10 Personal current transfer receipts .............................................
11 Less: Contributions for government social insurance, domestic
12 Less: Personal current taxes ....................................................
13 Equals: Disposable personal income ......................................
Addenda:
14 Personal consumption expenditures .........................................
15
Goods....................................................................................
16
Durable goods....................................................................
17
Nondurable goods ..............................................................
18
Services.................................................................................

2.0
2.8
2.8
2.7

4.0
4.3
4.6
3.3

1.8
3.4
3.6
2.8

4.9
6.8
7.5
4.2

4.9
2.8
2.9
2.6

4.2
4.5
4.8
3.2

4.6
5.9
6.4
3.7

4.1
4.8
4.9
4.0

1
2
3
4

6.1
11.8
–0.4
–0.1
–1.0
2.7
16.1
10.5
1.0

3.3
7.5
2.2
0.8
4.4
4.5
5.2
4.9
3.9

–1.0
6.1
–2.4
1.5
–7.9
0.9
3.5
6.6
1.2

2.5
6.4
–0.7
–0.2
–1.5
6.5
10.8
5.7
4.8

9.2
8.2
7.2
2.4
14.8
6.8
2.7
0.8
5.5

1.6
7.3
2.1
–1.1
7.1
5.4
4.2
8.4
3.6

4.7
5.9
1.4
–2.1
6.5
2.7
5.4
11.6
3.7

–3.5
4.2
1.3
–4.4
9.8
8.5
4.9
10.5
3.2

5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13

3.6
2.9
4.8
2.0
4.0

3.9
3.1
4.3
2.5
4.3

4.8
2.2
3.0
1.8
6.1

2.6
0.5
0.2
0.6
3.7

4.9
7.8
12.0
5.9
3.5

4.5
4.8
6.9
3.8
4.3

4.0
–0.4
2.7
–1.8
6.2

–0.2
–8.2
–1.5
–11.5
3.9

14
15
16
17
18

3.2
3.4

2.2
3.1

2.7
2.4

5.5
4.1

Based on chained (2009) dollar measures
19
20

Real personal income excluding current transfer receipts ........
Real disposable personal income.............................................

0.7
–0.2

2.5
2.5

1.0
0.2

r Revised. Revisions include changes to series affected by the incorporation of revised wage and salary estimates for the fourth quarter of 2014.

5.3 19
5.3 20

Table 7. Real Personal Consumption Expenditures by Major Type of Product (Months)
2014

Line

Sept.

Oct.

2015
Nov.

Dec.

Jan.

r

Feb.

r

Line

March r

April p

11,196.5
3,840.2
1,471.5
2,398.2
7,357.1

11,191.3
3,826.3
1,459.1
2,395.4
7,364.8

Billions of chained (2009) dollars, seasonally adjusted at annual rates
1 Personal consumption expenditures .......................................
2 Goods .......................................................................................
3
Durable goods .......................................................................
4
Nondurable goods .................................................................
5 Services....................................................................................

11,035.2
3,781.6
1,435.2
2,373.1
7,254.2

11,077.5
3,794.9
1,437.2
2,383.9
7,283.2

11,137.0
3,836.0
1,468.2
2,397.2
7,302.6

11,144.5
3,826.0
1,454.5
2,399.0
7,319.4

11,158.6
3,826.9
1,459.2
2,395.9
7,332.4

11,153.7
3,802.9
1,441.3
2,388.1
7,349.8

1
2
3
4
5

Change from preceding period in billions of chained (2009) dollars, seasonally adjusted at annual rates
6 Personal consumption expenditures .......................................
7 Goods .......................................................................................
8
Durable goods .......................................................................
9
Nondurable goods .................................................................
10 Services....................................................................................

17.5
–10.8
–11.2
–1.0
27.5

42.3
13.3
2.0
10.8
29.0

59.5
41.1
31.0
13.3
19.4

7.5
–10.0
–13.7
1.8
16.8

14.1
0.9
4.7
–3.1
13.0

–4.9
–24.0
–17.9
–7.8
17.4

42.8
37.3
30.2
10.1
7.3

–5.2 6
–13.9 7
–12.4 8
–2.8 9
7.7 10

Percent change from preceding period in chained (2009) dollars, seasonally adjusted at monthly rates
11 Personal consumption expenditures .......................................
12 Goods .......................................................................................
13
Durable goods .......................................................................
14
Nondurable goods .................................................................
15 Services....................................................................................

0.2
–0.3
–0.8
0.0
0.4

0.4
0.4
0.1
0.5
0.4

0.5
1.1
2.2
0.6
0.3

0.1
–0.3
–0.9
0.1
0.2

0.1
0.0
0.3
–0.1
0.2

0.0
–0.6
–1.2
–0.3
0.2

0.4
1.0
2.1
0.4
0.1

0.0
–0.4
–0.8
–0.1
0.1

11
12
13
14
15

p Preliminary
r Revised

Table 8. Real Personal Consumption Expenditures by Major Type of Product (Years and Quarters)
Seasonally adjusted at annual rates
Line

2013

2014

2013
IV

2014
I

II

2015
III

IV

I

Line

r

Billions of chained (2009) dollars
1 Personal consumption expenditures .......................................
2 Goods .......................................................................................
3
Durable goods .......................................................................
4
Nondurable goods .................................................................
5 Services....................................................................................

10,699.7
3,626.0
1,319.0
2,322.6
7,073.1

10,969.0
3,750.9
1,410.0
2,364.8
7,218.6

10,811.4
3,669.0
1,344.5
2,341.8
7,141.9

10,844.3
3,678.3
1,355.0
2,341.9
7,165.4

10,912.6
3,731.6
1,400.4
2,354.6
7,181.4

10,999.5
3,774.5
1,431.5
2,369.4
7,225.9

11,119.6
3,819.0
1,453.3
2,393.4
7,301.7

68.3
53.3
45.4
12.7
16.0

86.9
42.9
31.1
14.8
44.5

120.1
44.5
21.8
24.0
75.8

2.5
5.9
14.1
2.2
0.9

3.2
4.7
9.2
2.5
2.5

4.4
4.8
6.2
4.1
4.3

11,169.6
3,823.3
1,457.4
2,394.1
7,346.5

1
2
3
4
5

Change from preceding period in billions of chained (2009) dollars
6 Personal consumption expenditures .......................................
7 Goods .......................................................................................
8
Durable goods .......................................................................
9
Nondurable goods .................................................................
10 Services....................................................................................

250.0
119.5
83.3
42.5
130.7

269.3
124.9
91.0
42.2
145.5

98.1
32.9
18.6
15.4
65.3

32.9
9.3
10.5
0.1
23.5

50.0 6
4.3 7
4.1 8
0.7 9
44.8 10

Percent change from preceding period in chained (2009) dollars
11 Personal consumption expenditures .......................................
12 Goods .......................................................................................
13
Durable goods .......................................................................
14
Nondurable goods .................................................................
15 Services....................................................................................
r Revised

2.4
3.4
6.7
1.9
1.9

2.5
3.4
6.9
1.8
2.1

3.7
3.7
5.7
2.7
3.7

1.2
1.0
3.2
0.0
1.3

1.8
0.5
1.1
0.1
2.5

11
12
13
14
15

Table 9. Price Indexes for Personal Consumption Expenditures: Level and Percent Change From Preceding Period (Months)
2014

Line

Sept.

Oct.

2015
Nov.

Dec.

Jan. r

Feb. r

March r

April p

Line

Chain-type price indexes (2009=100), seasonally adjusted
1 Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) ............................
2 Goods .......................................................................................
3
Durable goods .......................................................................
4
Nondurable goods .................................................................
5 Services....................................................................................
Addenda:
6 PCE excluding food and energy ...............................................
7 Food 1 .......................................................................................
8 Energy goods and services 2 ....................................................
9 Market-based PCE 3 .................................................................
10 Market-based PCE excluding food and energy 3 ......................

109.150
106.069
92.062
113.348
110.745

109.201
105.892
91.971
113.121
110.915

109.028
104.970
91.405
111.992
111.135

108.773
103.977
90.949
110.685
111.266

108.267
102.309
90.801
108.111
111.365

108.450
102.632
90.971
108.524
111.475

108.622
102.858
90.773
109.006
111.618

108.649
102.672
90.899
108.631
111.756

1
2
3
4
5

107.932
110.574
127.829
108.688
107.212

108.069
110.640
126.076
108.661
107.272

108.128
110.942
120.484
108.439
107.309

108.135
111.164
114.237
108.156
107.321

108.184
110.890
102.518
107.528
107.310

108.327
111.008
103.696
107.704
107.438

108.472
110.685
105.200
107.882
107.586

108.593 6
110.500 7
103.717 8
107.969 9
107.790 10

Percent change from preceding period in price indexes, seasonally adjusted at monthly rates
11 Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) ............................
12 Goods .......................................................................................
13
Durable goods .......................................................................
14
Nondurable goods .................................................................
15 Services....................................................................................
Addenda:
16 PCE excluding food and energy ...............................................
17 Food 1 .......................................................................................
18 Energy goods and services 2 ....................................................
19 Market-based PCE 3 .................................................................
20 Market-based PCE excluding food and energy 3 ......................

0.1
–0.1
–0.1
0.0
0.1

0.0
–0.2
–0.1
–0.2
0.2

–0.2
–0.9
–0.6
–1.0
0.2

–0.2
–0.9
–0.5
–1.2
0.1

–0.5
–1.6
–0.2
–2.3
0.1

0.2
0.3
0.2
0.4
0.1

0.2
0.2
–0.2
0.4
0.1

0.0
–0.2
0.1
–0.3
0.1

11
12
13
14
15

0.1
0.2
–0.8
0.1
0.1

0.1
0.1
–1.4
0.0
0.1

0.1
0.3
–4.4
–0.2
0.0

0.0
0.2
–5.2
–0.3
0.0

0.0
–0.2
–10.3
–0.6
0.0

0.1
0.1
1.1
0.2
0.1

0.1
–0.3
1.5
0.2
0.1

0.1
–0.2
–1.4
0.1
0.2

16
17
18
19
20

p Preliminary
r Revised
1. Food consists of food and beverages purchased for off-premises consumption; food services, which include purchased meals and beverages, are not classified as food.
2. Consists of gasoline and other energy goods and of electricity and gas services.
3. Market-based PCE is a supplemental measure that is based on household expenditures for which there are observable price measures. It excludes most imputed transactions (for example, financial services
furnished without payment) and the final consumption expenditures of nonprofit institutions serving households.

Table 10. Real Disposable Personal Income and Real Personal Consumption Expenditures: Percent Change From Month One Year Ago
2014

Line

Sept.

1 Disposable personal income ....................................................
2 Personal consumption expenditures .......................................
3 Goods .......................................................................................
4
Durable goods .......................................................................
5
Nondurable goods .................................................................
6 Services....................................................................................

Oct.

r

2.1
2.7
3.7
8.5
1.5
2.2

2015
Nov.

r

2.7
2.8
3.8
7.4
2.2
2.3

3.1
2.8
4.2
7.9
2.5
2.1

Dec.

r

4.0
2.9
4.2
8.9
2.0
2.3

Jan.

r

Feb.

4.1
3.4
5.2
10.1
2.9
2.4

r

March r

3.9
3.0
3.5
7.1
1.8
2.7

3.2
2.7
3.2
5.5
2.0
2.5

April p
3.5
2.7
2.8
5.3
1.6
2.6

Line
1
2
3
4
5
6

p Preliminary
r Revised. Revisions include changes to series affected by the incorporation of revised wage and salary estimates for the fourth quarter of 2014.

Table 11. Price Indexes for Personal Consumption Expenditures: Percent Change From Month One Year Ago
Line
1 Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) ............................
2 Goods .......................................................................................
3
Durable goods .......................................................................
4
Nondurable goods .................................................................
5 Services....................................................................................
Addenda:
6 PCE excluding food and energy ...............................................
7 Food 1 .......................................................................................
8 Energy goods and services 2 ....................................................
9 Market-based PCE 3 .................................................................
10 Market-based PCE excluding food and energy 3 ......................

2014
Sept.

Oct.

2015
Nov.

Dec.

Jan.

r

Feb.

r

March r

1.4
–0.1
–2.4
1.0
2.2

1.4
–0.1
–2.3
1.0
2.2

1.2
–0.8
–2.6
0.1
2.2

0.8
–1.8
–2.7
–1.4
2.1

0.2
–3.4
–2.7
–3.7
2.0

0.3
–3.0
–2.4
–3.3
2.0

0.3
–2.6
–2.3
–2.8
1.8

1.5
2.5
–0.9
1.3
1.3

1.5
2.5
–1.3
1.2
1.3

1.4
2.8
–5.3
1.0
1.2

1.3
2.9
–11.7
0.6
1.2

1.3
2.7
–21.0
–0.1
1.1

1.3
2.6
–19.7
0.0
1.1

1.3
1.8
–18.5
0.0
1.1

April p
0.1
–3.1
–2.2
–3.5
1.7

Line
1
2
3
4
5

1.2 6
1.3 7
–20.0 8
–0.1 9
1.1 10

p Preliminary
r Revised
1. Food consists of food and beverages purchased for off-premises consumption; food services, which include purchased meals and beverages, are not classified as food.
2. Consists of gasoline and other energy goods and of electricity and gas services.
3. Market-based PCE is a supplemental measure that is based on household expenditures for which there are observable price measures. It excludes most imputed transactions (for example, financial services
furnished without payment) and the final consumption expenditures of nonprofit institutions serving households.