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NEWS RELEASE
EMBARGOED UNTIL RELEASE AT 8:30 A.M. EDT, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2016
BEA 16-25
Technical: Kurt Kunze
(301) 278-9087 (Personal Income)
piniwd@bea.gov
Kyle Brown
(301) 278-9086 (Personal Consumption Expenditures) pce@bea.gov
Media:
Jeannine Aversa (301) 278-9003
PERSONAL INCOME AND OUTLAYS: APRIL 2016
Personal income increased $69.8 billion, or 0.4 percent, and disposable personal income (DPI)
increased $63.5 billion, or 0.5 percent, in April, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $119.2 billion, or 1.0 percent. In March,
personal income increased $56.7 billion, or 0.4 percent, DPI increased $49.6 billion, or 0.4 percent,
and PCE increased $3.7 billion, or less than 0.1 percent, based on revised estimates.
Real DPI increased 0.2 percent in April, compared with an increase of 0.3 percent in March.
Real PCE increased 0.6 percent, in contrast to a decrease of less than 0.1 percent.
2015
Dec.
Personal income, current dollars
Disposable personal income:
Current dollars
Chained (2009) dollars
Personal consumption expenditures:
Current dollars
Chained (2009) dollars

0.3

2016
Jan.
Feb.
Mar.
(Percent change from preceding month)
0.4
0.1
0.4

Apr.
0.4

0.3
0.4

0.6
0.4

0.1
0.2

0.4
0.3

0.5
0.2

0.1
0.2

0.1
0.0

0.2
0.3

0.0
0.0

1.0
0.6

This news release presents revised estimates of wages and salaries, personal taxes, and contributions for
government social insurance for October through December 2015 (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.
___________________
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 $38.6 billion in April, compared with an increase of $30.7 billion in
March. Private wages and salaries increased $37.2 billion, compared with an increase of $27.6 billion.
Government wages and salaries increased $1.4 billion, compared with an increase of $3.1 billion.
Supplements to wages and salaries increased $5.9 billion in April, compared with an increase of $5.5
billion in March.

Other personal income
Proprietors' income increased $7.8 billion in April, in contrast to a decrease of $1.0 billion in March.
Farm proprietors' income increased $0.3 billion, in contrast to a decrease of $1.5 billion. Nonfarm
proprietors' income increased $7.5 billion, compared with an increase of $0.6 billion.
Rental income of persons increased $2.5 billion in April, compared with an increase of $5.5 billion in
March. Personal income receipts on assets (personal interest income plus personal dividend income)
increased $7.2 billion, compared with an increase of $13.1 billion.
Personal current transfer receipts increased $12.5 billion in April, compared with an increase of $6.3
billion in March. Within current transfer receipts, government social benefit payments to persons for April
increased $12.3 billion, primarily reflecting an upturn in Social Security payments.
Contributions for government social insurance -- a subtraction in calculating personal income -increased $4.7 billion in April, compared with an increase of $3.4 billion in March.

Personal current taxes and disposable personal income
Personal current taxes increased $6.3 billion in April, compared with an increase of $7.1 billion in
March. Disposable personal income (DPI) -- personal income less personal current taxes -- increased $63.5
billion, or 0.5 percent, compared with an increase of $49.6 billion, or 0.4 percent.

Personal outlays and personal saving
Personal outlays -- PCE, personal interest payments, and personal current transfer payments -increased $121.7 billion in April, compared with an increase of $1.8 billion in March. PCE increased
$119.2 billion, compared with an increase of $3.7 billion.
Personal saving -- DPI less personal outlays -- was $751.1 billion in April, compared with $809.4
billion in March. The personal saving rate -- personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal
income -- was 5.4 percent, compared with 5.9 percent. 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 0.2 percent in April, compared with an
increase of 0.3 percent in March.
Real PCE -- PCE adjusted to remove price changes -- increased 0.6 percent in April, in contrast to a
decrease of less than 0.1 percent in March. Purchases of durable goods increased 2.2 percent, compared
with an increase of 0.2 percent. Purchases of motor vehicles and parts accounted for most of the increase in
April. Purchases of nondurable goods increased 0.7 percent in April, compared with an increase of 0.4
percent in March. Purchases of services increased 0.4 percent, in contrast to a decrease of 0.2 percent.
The price index for PCE increased 0.3 percent in April, compared with an increase of 0.1 percent in
March. The PCE price index, excluding food and energy, increased 0.2 percent, compared with an increase
of 0.1 percent.
The April PCE price index increased 1.1 percent from April a year ago. The April PCE price index,
excluding food and energy, increased 1.6 percent from April a year ago.

Revisions
Estimates have been revised for October through March. Changes in personal income, in currentdollar and chained (2009) dollar DPI, and in current-dollar and chained (2009) dollar PCE for February and
for March -- revised and as published in last month's release -- are shown below.
Estimates of wages and salaries have been revised for October through March. The revision to fourthquarter wages and salaries reflected the incorporation of the most recently available Bureau of Labor
Statistics tabulations of fourth-quarter wages and salaries from the Quarterly Census of Employment and
Wages. Revised estimates for January, February, and March reflect extrapolations from the revised fourthquarter level of wages. In addition, revisions to February and March reflect revised BLS employment,
hours, and earnings data.
Change from preceding month
February
Previous Revised Previous Revised
(Billions of dollars)
(Percent)
Personal income:
Current dollars
Disposable personal income:
Current dollars
Chained (2009) dollars
Personal consumption expenditures:
Current dollars
Chained (2009) dollars

March
Previous Revised Previous Revised
(Billions of dollars)
(Percent)

12.0

15.3

0.1

0.1

57.4

56.7

0.4

0.4

11.4
22.6

14.1
23.4

0.1
0.2

0.1
0.2

50.4
39.2

49.6
37.6

0.4
0.3

0.4
0.3

21.4
30.6

30.8
37.7

0.2
0.3

0.2
0.3

12.8
5.5

3.7
-3.5

0.1
0.0

0.0
0.0

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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 (NIPAs), revised estimates
of personal income and outlays will be released in conjunction with preliminary estimates for June 2016 on
August 2, 2016. This regular revision of the estimates will cover the most recent 3 years and the first 5
months of 2016. For more information, see “Preview of the Upcoming Annual NIPA Revision” included in
the May Survey of Current Business article on “GDP and the Economy”.

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
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Next release – June 29, 2016 at 8:30 A.M. EDT
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

2015
Sept.

1 Personal income ...................................................................................
2 Compensation of employees ............................................................

Oct. r

Line

2016
Nov. r

Dec. r

Jan. r

Feb. r

March r

April p

15,472.9 15,547.1 15,605.1 15,654.2 15,716.9 15,732.2 15,788.9 15,858.7
9,718.5 9,799.0 9,866.3 9,895.9 9,948.2 9,951.6 9,987.9 10,032.4

1
2

3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Wages and salaries ........................................................................
Private industries...........................................................................
Goods-producing industries .......................................................
Manufacturing .........................................................................
Services-producing industries....................................................
Trade, transportation, and utilities...........................................
Other services-producing industries .......................................
Government...................................................................................

7,875.4
6,599.7
1,307.3
801.2
5,292.4
1,246.6
4,045.8
1,275.7

7,947.7
6,670.6
1,324.2
813.4
5,346.4
1,256.2
4,090.2
1,277.0

8,007.2
6,727.9
1,346.3
830.4
5,381.6
1,263.2
4,118.5
1,279.2

8,031.5
6,749.8
1,337.9
821.7
5,411.9
1,268.4
4,143.5
1,281.7

8,077.6
6,790.2
1,347.5
829.1
5,442.7
1,270.8
4,172.0
1,287.4

8,077.7
6,787.0
1,344.5
827.3
5,442.5
1,271.6
4,170.9
1,290.7

8,108.4
6,814.6
1,347.3
827.3
5,467.3
1,277.1
4,190.2
1,293.8

8,147.0
6,851.8
1,357.4
836.0
5,494.4
1,281.6
4,212.9
1,295.2

3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

11
12

Supplements to wages and salaries.............................................
Employer contributions for employee pension and insurance
funds 1 .........................................................................................
Employer contributions for government social insurance..............
Proprietors’ income with inventory valuation and capital
consumption adjustments.............................................................
Farm .................................................................................................
Nonfarm............................................................................................
Rental income of persons with capital consumption adjustment.
Personal income receipts on assets................................................
Personal interest income ..................................................................
Personal dividend income ................................................................
Personal current transfer receipts ...................................................
Government social benefits to persons ............................................
Social security 2..............................................................................
Medicare 3 ......................................................................................
Medicaid ........................................................................................
Unemployment insurance..............................................................
Veterans’ benefits..........................................................................
Other .............................................................................................
Other current transfer receipts, from business (net).........................
Less: Contributions for government social insurance, domestic.

1,843.1

1,851.3

1,859.1

1,864.4

1,870.6

1,873.9

1,879.4

1,885.4

11

1,273.9
569.2

1,277.6
573.7

1,281.5
577.6

1,285.7
578.8

1,289.5
581.0

1,293.5
580.4

1,297.5
581.9

1,301.2
584.1

12
13

1,404.2
68.0
1,336.2
665.8
2,209.1
1,337.0
872.1
2,683.6
2,639.9
875.4
625.2
544.6
32.6
95.5
466.7
43.6
1,208.2

1,407.0
62.5
1,344.5
668.4
2,202.3
1,327.7
874.6
2,687.8
2,644.0
877.6
628.4
544.4
31.7
96.2
465.6
43.8
1,217.4

1,401.0
57.1
1,343.9
671.6
2,196.5
1,318.3
878.2
2,694.8
2,650.8
878.2
631.5
545.3
32.2
98.4
465.4
44.0
1,225.0

1,412.3
51.6
1,360.6
675.3
2,187.0
1,309.0
878.0
2,711.5
2,667.3
889.3
634.5
549.2
32.6
98.7
463.0
44.2
1,227.8

1,413.9
50.1
1,363.9
679.7
2,193.8
1,315.2
878.6
2,718.3
2,674.0
884.8
637.8
549.6
32.7
98.0
471.1
44.3
1,237.0

1,411.8
48.5
1,363.3
684.9
2,190.0
1,321.4
868.6
2,730.2
2,685.7
887.1
640.9
550.8
32.6
98.5
475.8
44.5
1,236.4

1,410.8
47.0
1,363.9
690.4
2,203.1
1,327.5
875.5
2,736.6
2,691.8
886.9
643.9
551.3
32.0
99.3
478.4
44.7
1,239.8

1,418.7
47.3
1,371.4
692.9
2,210.3
1,329.0
881.3
2,749.0
2,704.1
895.0
646.7
553.4
31.2
102.4
475.4
44.9
1,244.6

14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30

1,958.8 1,980.5 1,996.5 2,004.1 1,988.7 1,989.8 1,996.9 2,003.2
13,514.1 13,566.5 13,608.6 13,650.1 13,728.2 13,742.4 13,792.0 13,855.4
12,831.9 12,854.1 12,907.5 12,929.8 12,951.6 12,980.7 12,982.5 13,104.3
12,386.7 12,405.5 12,455.0 12,473.4 12,492.0 12,522.9 12,526.5 12,645.8
4,012.7 4,005.3 4,027.5 4,001.7 3,982.5 3,965.0 3,972.8 4,041.5
1,345.3 1,339.0 1,353.9 1,347.8 1,336.2 1,341.4 1,339.4 1,370.0
2,667.4 2,666.3 2,673.6 2,653.9 2,646.3 2,623.6 2,633.4 2,671.4
8,374.0 8,400.2 8,427.5 8,471.7 8,509.5 8,557.9 8,553.7 8,604.3
267.1
270.6
274.1
277.6
275.8
274.0
272.1
274.5
178.0
178.0
178.3
178.7
183.7
183.9
183.9
184.0
98.0
98.3
98.6
99.0
103.7
103.8
103.8
104.0
80.0
79.7
79.7
79.7
80.1
80.1
80.1
80.1
682.2
712.5
701.2
720.3
776.7
761.7
809.4
751.1
5.0
5.3
5.2
5.3
5.7
5.5
5.9
5.4

31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44

11,659.7 11,714.7 11,746.6 11,785.8 11,821.0 11,834.0 11,872.7 11,888.4

45

12,320.4 12,359.0 12,381.9 12,430.0 12,484.5 12,507.9 12,545.5 12,564.7

46

41,936
38,232
322,255

47
48
49

13
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
44
45
46
47
48
49

Less: Personal current taxes ...............................................................
Equals: Disposable personal income .................................................
Less: Personal outlays .........................................................................
Personal consumption expenditures....................................................
Goods ...............................................................................................
Durable goods ...............................................................................
Nondurable goods .........................................................................
Services............................................................................................
Personal interest payments 4 ................................................................
Personal current transfer payments.....................................................
To government..................................................................................
To the rest of the world (net).............................................................
Equals: Personal saving.......................................................................
Personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income
Addenda:
Personal income excluding current transfer receipts, billions of
chained (2009) dollars 5 ..................................................................
Disposable personal income:
Total, billions of chained (2009) dollars 5 ...........................................
Per capita:
Current dollars...............................................................................
Chained (2009) dollars ..................................................................
Population (midperiod, thousands) 6.....................................................

42,069
38,324
322,484

42,172
38,370
322,697

42,274
38,495
322,897

42,492
38,643
323,076

42,515
38,696
323,238

42,645
38,791
323,413

42,816
38,828
323,601

p Preliminary
r Revised. Revisions include changes to series affected by the incorporation of revised wage and salary estimates for the fourth quarter of 2015.
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

2014

2015 r

2014
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 .............................................
Employer contributions for employee pension and insurance
12
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 .....................................................

2016

2015
I

II

III

IV

r

I

14,694.2 15,350.7 14,955.7 15,079.8 15,277.0 15,443.7 15,602.1 15,746.0
9,248.9 9,666.6 9,424.9 9,487.9 9,615.2 9,709.5 9,853.7 9,962.6
7,477.8 7,834.9 7,632.6 7,682.4 7,791.8 7,870.0 7,995.4 8,087.9
6,240.5 6,566.1 6,384.4 6,425.9 6,526.7 6,595.8 6,716.1 6,797.3
1,260.9 1,309.7 1,292.9 1,288.0 1,303.2 1,311.5 1,336.2 1,346.5
780.9
804.9
796.5
792.1
801.7
804.1
821.8
827.9
4,979.7 5,256.4 5,091.5 5,138.0 5,223.5 5,284.2 5,380.0 5,450.8
1,175.5 1,236.5 1,203.3 1,210.9 1,229.1 1,243.5 1,262.6 1,273.1
3,804.2 4,019.9 3,888.2 3,927.0 3,994.4 4,040.8 4,117.4 4,177.7
1,237.2 1,268.8 1,248.2 1,256.5 1,265.0 1,274.2 1,279.3 1,290.7
1,771.2 1,831.7 1,792.3 1,805.5 1,823.4 1,839.5 1,858.3 1,874.6
1,224.0
547.2

1,264.3
567.4

12
13

1,346.7 1,388.3 1,377.9 1,369.4 1,377.0 1,400.1 1,406.7 1,412.2
78.1
59.9
74.8
60.5
56.9
65.2
57.1
48.5
1,268.6 1,328.4 1,303.0 1,308.9 1,320.1 1,334.9 1,349.7 1,363.7
610.8
656.6
628.4
637.0
654.1
663.6
671.7
685.0
2,117.5 2,180.5 2,130.6 2,145.5 2,178.3 2,202.8 2,195.3 2,195.6
1,302.0 1,312.3 1,289.8 1,282.6 1,313.4 1,335.0 1,318.3 1,321.4
815.5
868.2
840.8
863.0
864.9
867.8
876.9
874.3
2,529.2 2,662.7 2,571.0 2,625.8 2,651.3 2,675.7 2,698.0 2,728.4
2,487.2 2,619.5 2,528.9 2,583.4 2,608.4 2,632.2 2,654.0 2,683.9
834.6
871.8
843.8
861.6
869.4
874.5
881.7
886.3
597.8
619.8
605.3
609.8
615.3
622.5
631.4
640.9
487.4
534.9
507.1
523.9
529.0
540.4
546.3
550.6
35.8
33.3
32.9
35.0
33.1
32.9
32.2
32.4
83.7
94.4
86.7
90.7
94.1
95.1
97.8
98.6
447.9
465.3
453.3
462.2
467.5
466.9
464.7
475.1
42.0
43.2
42.1
42.4
42.9
43.4
44.0
44.5
1,159.0 1,204.0 1,177.2 1,185.8 1,198.9 1,207.9 1,223.4 1,237.7
1,780.2 1,947.4 1,838.8 1,900.1 1,938.7 1,957.3 1,993.7 1,991.8
12,913.9 13,403.2 13,116.8 13,179.8 13,338.3 13,486.4 13,608.4 13,754.2
12,293.7 12,717.5 12,502.5 12,492.2 12,674.5 12,806.2 12,897.1 12,971.6
11,865.9 12,271.9 12,061.4 12,055.5 12,228.4 12,359.0 12,444.7 12,513.8
3,948.4 3,978.8 3,980.1 3,901.5 3,978.1 4,024.1 4,011.5 3,973.5
1,280.2 1,328.7 1,303.5 1,301.8 1,326.4 1,339.6 1,346.9 1,339.0
2,668.2 2,650.1 2,676.6 2,599.7 2,651.8 2,684.4 2,664.6 2,634.5
7,917.5 8,293.1 8,081.3 8,153.9 8,250.2 8,334.9 8,433.1 8,540.3
254.2
268.5
263.1
261.3
269.3
269.4
274.1
274.0
173.6
177.1
178.0
175.5
176.8
177.8
178.3
183.8
95.3
97.7
95.9
97.0
97.2
97.8
98.7
103.8
78.3
79.4
82.2
78.5
79.6
80.0
79.7
80.1
620.2
685.7
614.3
687.6
663.9
680.2
711.3
782.6
4.8
5.1
4.7
5.2
5.0
5.0
5.2
5.7

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
44

11,149.8 11,593.5 11,329.0 11,447.6 11,542.2 11,635.1 11,749.0 11,842.6

45

11,836.3 12,247.1 11,998.7 12,114.7 12,193.6 12,289.8 12,390.3 12,512.7

46

40,453
37,077
319,233

47
48
49

40,962
37,470
320,222

1,246.8
558.7

41,088
37,767
320,771

1,258.3
565.0

41,509
37,947
321,337

1,270.3
569.2

41,881
38,165
322,015

1,281.6
576.7

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11

1,293.5
581.1

41,663
38,069
321,704

1,236.3
556.0

Line

r

42,171
38,397
322,693

42,551
38,710
323,242

r Revised. Revisions include changes to series affected by the incorporation of revised wage and salary estimates for the fourth quarter of 2015.
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

2015
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

Line

2016
Nov.

r

Dec.

r

Jan.

r

Feb.

r

March

r

April

p

21.5
–1.4
–4.1
–4.9
–6.9
–4.7
2.0
2.4
–0.4
0.8
2.8

74.2
80.5
72.3
71.0
17.0
12.2
54.0
9.5
44.5
1.3
8.2

58.1
67.3
59.5
57.3
22.1
17.0
35.3
7.0
28.2
2.2
7.7

49.0
29.7
24.3
21.9
–8.3
–8.6
30.2
5.2
25.1
2.4
5.3

62.8
52.3
46.1
40.4
9.6
7.4
30.9
2.4
28.5
5.7
6.1

15.3
3.4
0.1
–3.2
–3.0
–1.8
–0.3
0.8
–1.1
3.4
3.3

56.7
36.2
30.7
27.6
2.8
0.0
24.8
5.5
19.3
3.1
5.5

69.8
44.5
38.6
37.2
10.0
8.7
27.2
4.5
22.7
1.4
5.9

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11

3.5
–0.7

3.7
4.5

3.9
3.9

4.1
1.2

3.9
2.3

3.9
–0.6

4.0
1.5

3.7
2.2

12
13

6.1
2.8
3.3
2.4
6.6
2.0
4.6
6.9
6.7
–0.6
2.8
4.5
–0.6
0.8
–0.3
0.2
–1.0
0.1
21.5
21.1
23.1
–20.5
6.2
–26.7
43.6
–2.3
0.3
0.3
0.0
0.4

2.8
–5.5
8.3
2.6
–6.8
–9.3
2.6
4.2
4.0
2.2
3.2
–0.2
–0.9
0.7
–1.1
0.2
9.2
21.7
52.5
22.2
18.8
–7.4
–6.3
–1.1
26.2
3.5
–0.1
0.3
–0.3
30.3

–6.0
–5.5
–0.6
3.2
–5.8
–9.3
3.5
7.1
6.9
0.6
3.1
0.8
0.5
2.2
–0.3
0.2
7.6
16.0
42.1
53.4
49.5
22.2
14.9
7.3
27.3
3.5
0.3
0.3
0.0
–11.3

11.3
–5.5
16.7
3.7
–9.5
–9.3
–0.2
16.7
16.5
11.1
3.0
3.9
0.5
0.4
–2.4
0.2
2.8
7.6
41.4
22.3
18.4
–25.8
–6.1
–19.7
44.2
3.5
0.4
0.4
0.0
19.2

1.7
–1.5
3.2
4.4
6.8
6.2
0.6
6.8
6.7
–4.5
3.3
0.4
0.1
–0.7
8.2
0.1
9.2
–15.4
78.2
21.8
18.6
–19.2
–11.6
–7.6
37.8
–1.8
5.1
4.7
0.4
56.3

–2.1
–1.5
–0.6
5.3
–3.8
6.2
–10.0
11.9
11.7
2.3
3.1
1.2
–0.1
0.5
4.7
0.2
–0.6
1.1
14.1
29.1
30.8
–17.5
5.2
–22.7
48.4
–1.8
0.1
0.1
0.0
–15.0

–1.0
–1.5
0.6
5.5
13.1
6.2
6.9
6.3
6.1
–0.2
3.0
0.6
–0.7
0.9
2.6
0.2
3.4
7.1
49.6
1.8
3.7
7.8
–2.0
9.8
–4.2
–1.8
0.0
0.0
0.0
47.8

7.8
0.3
7.5
2.5
7.2
1.5
5.8
12.5
12.3
8.1
2.8
2.1
–0.7
3.1
–3.0
0.2
4.7
6.3
63.5
121.7
119.2
68.6
30.6
38.0
50.6
2.4
0.1
0.1
0.0
–58.3

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

19.9
26.5

55.0
38.6

31.8
22.9

39.2
48.1

35.2
54.6

13.0
23.4

38.7
37.6

15.7
19.2

44
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 2015.
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

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

r

2014

2016

2015

IV

I

II

III

IV

r

I

Line

r

625.8
409.3
363.4
333.8
70.8
34.0
263.0
57.0
206.0
29.6
45.9
26.2
19.7

656.5
417.6
357.1
325.6
48.9
24.1
276.8
61.0
215.7
31.5
60.5
40.3
20.2

180.9
135.0
118.7
113.7
26.3
15.0
87.4
24.1
63.3
5.0
16.3
9.1
7.1

124.2
63.0
49.8
41.5
–4.9
–4.4
46.4
7.6
38.8
8.3
13.2
10.5
2.7

197.2
127.2
109.3
100.8
15.2
9.6
85.5
18.2
67.3
8.6
17.9
11.6
6.3

166.7
94.3
78.2
69.1
8.3
2.4
60.8
14.3
46.4
9.2
16.1
11.9
4.2

158.5
144.2
125.5
120.3
24.6
17.7
95.7
19.1
76.6
5.1
18.8
11.3
7.5

143.9
108.8
92.5
81.2
10.3
6.1
70.9
10.6
60.3
11.3
16.3
11.9
4.4

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13

61.6
–10.6
72.2
47.4
57.1
30.7
26.5
102.5
101.7
35.6
23.2
47.7
–26.5
4.7
17.1
0.8
52.2
107.5
518.3
488.0
473.7
111.7
42.4
69.3
362.0
10.1
4.3
2.7
1.6
30.3

41.6
–18.2
59.9
45.8
62.9
10.3
52.7
133.5
132.3
37.2
22.0
47.5
–2.5
10.7
17.4
1.2
45.0
167.2
489.3
423.7
405.9
30.4
48.5
–18.1
375.5
14.3
3.5
2.4
1.2
65.5

20.1
–2.3
22.4
10.0
15.6
1.7
13.9
14.5
14.5
6.6
4.5
1.2
–1.8
2.9
1.1
0.0
14.3
46.8
134.1
125.6
112.3
–7.2
8.4
–15.6
119.6
8.8
4.5
0.2
4.3
8.6

–8.4
–14.3
5.9
8.5
14.9
–7.3
22.2
54.8
54.5
17.9
4.5
16.9
2.2
4.1
9.0
0.3
8.6
61.2
62.9
–10.3
–5.9
–78.6
–1.7
–76.9
72.7
–1.8
–2.6
1.1
–3.7
73.2

7.5
–3.6
11.2
17.1
32.8
30.8
2.0
25.5
25.0
7.8
5.5
5.1
–1.9
3.3
5.2
0.5
13.1
38.6
158.6
182.3
172.9
76.6
24.5
52.1
96.3
8.0
1.3
0.2
1.1
–23.7

23.1
8.3
14.8
9.5
24.5
21.6
2.9
24.3
23.8
5.1
7.1
11.4
–0.2
1.0
–0.6
0.5
9.0
18.6
148.1
131.7
130.6
45.9
13.3
32.7
84.7
0.1
1.0
0.6
0.4
16.4

6.7
–8.1
14.8
8.2
–7.5
–16.6
9.1
22.4
21.8
7.2
9.0
5.9
–0.8
2.7
–2.2
0.6
15.5
36.4
122.0
90.9
85.7
–12.5
7.3
–19.9
98.2
4.7
0.5
0.9
–0.3
31.1

5.5
–8.5
14.0
13.3
0.3
3.0
–2.7
30.3
29.8
4.6
9.4
4.3
0.3
0.8
10.5
0.5
14.3
–1.9
145.8
74.5
69.2
–38.0
–7.9
–30.1
107.2
–0.2
5.5
5.1
0.4
71.3

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

327.5
313.2

443.7
410.8

164.4
135.6

118.7
115.9

94.5
78.9

93.0
96.1

113.9
100.5

93.6
122.4

44
45

r Revised. Revisions include changes to series affected by the incorporation of revised wage and salary estimates for the fourth quarter of 2015.
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

2015
Sept.

Oct.

r

Line

2016
Nov.

r

Dec.

r

Jan.

Feb.

r

r

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 ................................................................................

0.1
0.0
–0.1
0.2

0.5
0.8
0.9
0.4

0.4
0.7
0.7
0.4

0.3
0.3
0.3
0.3

0.4
0.5
0.6
0.3

0.1
0.0
0.0
0.2

0.4
0.4
0.4
0.3

0.4
0.4
0.5
0.3

1
2
3
4

0.4
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.5
0.3
–0.1
0.0
0.2

0.2
0.4
–0.3
–0.7
0.3
0.2
0.8
1.1
0.4

–0.4
0.5
–0.3
–0.7
0.4
0.3
0.6
0.8
0.3

0.8
0.5
–0.4
–0.7
0.0
0.6
0.2
0.4
0.3

0.1
0.7
0.3
0.5
0.1
0.3
0.7
–0.8
0.6

–0.1
0.8
–0.2
0.5
–1.1
0.4
0.0
0.1
0.1

–0.1
0.8
0.6
0.5
0.8
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.4

0.6
0.4
0.3
0.1
0.7
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.5

5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13

0.2
–0.5
0.5
–1.0
0.5

0.2
–0.2
–0.5
0.0
0.3

0.4
0.6
1.1
0.3
0.3

0.1
–0.6
–0.4
–0.7
0.5

0.1
–0.5
–0.9
–0.3
0.4

0.2
–0.4
0.4
–0.9
0.6

0.0
0.2
–0.1
0.4
0.0

1.0
1.7
2.3
1.4
0.6

14
15
16
17
18

0.3
0.4

0.3
0.4

0.1
0.2

0.3
0.3

0.1
0.2

19
20

Based on chained (2009) dollar measures
19
20

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

0.2
0.2

0.5
0.3

0.3
0.2

p Preliminary
r Revised. Revisions include changes to series affected by the incorporation of revised wage and salary estimates for the fourth quarter of 2015.

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

2014

2015 r

2014
IV

2016

2015
I

II

III

Line

Ir

IV 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 ................................................................................

4.4
4.6
5.1
2.7

4.5
4.5
4.8
3.4

5.0
5.9
6.5
3.7

3.4
2.7
2.6
3.0

5.3
5.5
5.8
4.0

4.4
4.0
4.1
3.6

4.2
6.1
6.5
4.1

3.7
4.5
4.7
3.6

1
2
3
4

4.8
8.4
2.8
2.4
3.4
4.2
4.7
6.4
4.2

3.1
7.5
3.0
0.8
6.5
5.3
3.9
9.4
3.8

6.1
6.6
3.0
0.5
6.9
2.3
5.0
10.9
4.2

–2.4
5.5
2.8
–2.2
11.0
8.8
3.0
14.0
1.9

2.2
11.2
6.3
10.0
0.9
3.9
4.5
8.4
4.9

6.9
5.9
4.6
6.7
1.3
3.7
3.0
3.9
4.5

1.9
5.0
–1.4
–4.9
4.3
3.4
5.2
7.7
3.7

1.6
8.1
0.1
0.9
–1.2
4.6
4.8
–0.4
4.4

5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13

4.2
2.9
3.4
2.7
4.8

3.4
0.8
3.8
–0.7
4.7

3.8
–0.7
2.6
–2.3
6.1

–0.2
–7.7
–0.5
–11.0
3.6

5.9
8.1
7.8
8.3
4.8

4.3
4.7
4.1
5.0
4.2

2.8
–1.2
2.2
–2.9
4.8

2.2
–3.7
–2.3
–4.4
5.2

14
15
16
17
18

4.3
3.9

3.3
2.6

3.3
3.2

4.0
3.3

3.2
4.0

19
20

Based on chained (2009) dollar measures
19
20

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

3.0
2.7

4.0
3.5

6.0
4.7

r Revised. Revisions include changes to series affected by the incorporation of revised wage and salary estimates for the fourth quarter of 2015.

Table 7. Real Personal Consumption Expenditures by Major Type of Product (Months)
2015

Line

Sept.

Oct.

2016
Nov.

Dec.

Jan. r

Feb. r

March r

April p

Line

Billions of chained (2009) dollars, seasonally adjusted at annual rates
1

Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) .....................

2 Goods .........................................................................................
3 Durable goods ..........................................................................
4 Nondurable goods ....................................................................
5 Services ......................................................................................

11,292.7
3,909.1
1,487.0
2,450.2

11,301.3
3,902.6
1,483.2
2,447.2

11,332.3
3,927.6
1,503.8
2,453.7

11,358.5
3,923.6
1,499.4
2,453.5

11,360.3
3,912.6
1,483.1
2,456.8

11,398.0
3,919.7
1,493.1
2,455.1

11,394.4
3,933.7
1,496.2
2,465.8

11,467.7
3,981.9
1,529.4
2,483.5

7,386.2

7,400.4

7,407.9

7,436.8

7,448.3

7,478.2

7,462.4

7,490.2

1
2
3
4
5

Change from preceding period in billions of chained (2009) dollars, seasonally adjusted at annual rates
6

Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) .....................

7 Goods .........................................................................................
8 Durable goods ..........................................................................
9 Nondurable goods ....................................................................
10 Services ......................................................................................

27.4
0.1
3.0
–2.3

8.6
–6.5
–3.8
–3.0

31.0
25.0
20.5
6.5

26.2
–4.0
–4.3
–0.2

1.8
–11.0
–16.3
3.3

37.7
7.1
10.0
–1.7

–3.5
14.0
3.1
10.7

73.3
48.2
33.2
17.7

26.5

14.3

7.4

28.9

11.5

29.9

–15.8

27.8

0.0
0.4
0.2
0.4
–0.2

0.6
1.2
2.2
0.7
0.4

6
7
8
9
10

Percent change from preceding period in chained (2009) dollars, seasonally adjusted at monthly rates
11

Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) .....................

12 Goods .........................................................................................
13 Durable goods ..........................................................................
14 Nondurable goods ....................................................................
15 Services ......................................................................................

0.2
0.0
0.2
–0.1
0.4

0.1
–0.2
–0.3
–0.1
0.2

0.3
0.6
1.4
0.3
0.1

0.2
–0.1
–0.3
0.0
0.4

0.0
–0.3
–1.1
0.1
0.2

0.3
0.2
0.7
–0.1
0.4

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

2014

2015

2014
IV

2016

2015
I

II

III

IV

I

Line

r

Billions of chained (2009) dollars
1

Personal consumption expenditures (PCE)......................

2 Goods..........................................................................................
3 Durable goods ..........................................................................
4 Nondurable goods ....................................................................
5 Services ......................................................................................

10,875.7
3,731.2
1,384.1
2,367.8

11,213.3
3,869.6
1,466.5
2,430.0

11,033.3
3,793.2
1,423.5
2,393.7

11,081.2
3,803.7
1,430.4
2,397.8

11,178.9
3,855.0
1,458.3
2,423.0

11,262.4
3,902.0
1,481.7
2,447.9

11,330.7
3,917.9
1,495.5
2,451.5

11,384.2
3,922.0
1,490.8
2,459.2

7,144.6

7,345.3

7,240.4

7,277.4

7,325.3

7,363.4

7,415.0

7,462.9

1
2
3
4
5

Change from preceding period in billions of chained (2009) dollars
6

Personal consumption expenditures (PCE)......................

7 Goods..........................................................................................
8 Durable goods ..........................................................................
9 Nondurable goods ....................................................................
10 Services ......................................................................................

285.3
118.4
76.5
48.0

337.6
138.5
82.4
62.2

114.7
38.0
21.0
18.5

48.0
10.5
7.0
4.1

97.7
51.3
27.8
25.2

83.5
47.0
23.4
24.9

68.3
16.0
13.8
3.6

53.5
4.1
–4.7
7.8

167.6

200.7

76.5

37.0

47.9

38.1

51.6

47.9

3.6
5.5
8.0
4.3
2.7

3.0
5.0
6.6
4.2
2.1

2.4
1.6
3.8
0.6
2.8

1.9
0.4
–1.2
1.3
2.6

6
7
8
9
10

Percent change from preceding period in chained (2009) dollars
11

Personal consumption expenditures (PCE)......................

12 Goods..........................................................................................
13 Durable goods ..........................................................................
14 Nondurable goods ....................................................................
15 Services ......................................................................................
r Revised

2.7
3.3
5.9
2.1
2.4

3.1
3.7
6.0
2.6
2.8

4.3
4.1
6.1
3.1
4.3

1.8
1.1
2.0
0.7
2.1

11
12
13
14
15

Table 9. Price Indexes for Personal Consumption Expenditures: Level and Percent Change From Preceding Period (Months)
2015

Line

Sept.

Oct.

2016
Nov.

Dec.

Jan.

Feb.

r

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 .......................

109.691
102.643
90.452
108.862
113.381

109.774
102.626
90.262
108.949
113.516

109.911
102.540
90.019
108.959
113.771

109.819
101.988
89.872
108.166
113.923

109.965
101.783
90.078
107.714
114.254

109.872
101.151
89.825
106.860
114.444

109.939
100.989
89.504
106.796
114.631

110.276
101.491
89.561
107.565
114.880

1
2
3
4
5

109.794
111.371
102.512
108.480

109.860
111.461
102.840
108.565

110.020
111.197
103.133
108.658

110.095
110.867
100.033
108.542

110.421
110.704
97.045
108.595

110.621
110.911
90.727
108.503

110.685
110.412
91.736
108.555

110.874
110.617
95.215
108.879

108.395

108.461

108.574

108.644

108.889

109.131

109.179

109.333

6
7
8
9
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
–0.5
0.3
–0.9
0.2

0.1
0.0
–0.2
0.1
0.1

0.1
–0.1
–0.3
0.0
0.2

–0.1
–0.5
–0.2
–0.7
0.1

0.1
–0.2
0.2
–0.4
0.3

–0.1
–0.6
–0.3
–0.8
0.2

0.1
–0.2
–0.4
–0.1
0.2

0.3
0.5
0.1
0.7
0.2

11
12
13
14
15

0.2
0.2
–5.0
–0.1
0.2

0.1
0.1
0.3
0.1
0.1

0.1
–0.2
0.3
0.1
0.1

0.1
–0.3
–3.0
–0.1
0.1

0.3
–0.1
–3.0
0.0
0.2

0.2
0.2
–6.5
–0.1
0.2

0.1
–0.4
1.1
0.0
0.0

0.2
0.2
3.8
0.3
0.1

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
2015

Line

Sept.

2016
Nov. r

Oct. r

Dec. r

Jan. r

Feb. r

March r

April p

Line

1 Disposable personal income.....................................................

3.7

3.6

3.2

3.0

3.1

3.1

3.7

3.3

1

2 Personal consumption expenditures .......................................
3 Goods........................................................................................
4
Durable goods........................................................................
5
Nondurable goods..................................................................
6 Services ....................................................................................

3.1
4.1
6.0
3.2
2.7

2.8
3.4
5.2
2.6
2.5

2.6
3.2
5.0
2.4
2.3

2.7
3.2
5.0
2.3
2.4

2.6
3.0
3.9
2.6
2.5

2.9
3.6
5.3
2.8
2.6

2.6
2.7
3.5
2.3
2.6

3.0
4.0
5.5
3.3
2.5

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 2015.

Table 11. Price Indexes for Personal Consumption Expenditures: Percent Change From Month One Year Ago
2015

Line
1

Sept.

Oct.

2016
Nov.

Dec.

Jan. r

Feb. r

March r

April p

Line

Personal consumption expenditures (PCE)......................

0.2

0.2

0.5

0.7

1.3

1.0

0.8

1.1

1

2 Goods..........................................................................................
3 Durable goods ..........................................................................
4 Nondurable goods ....................................................................

–3.2
–1.9
–3.9

–3.1
–2.0
–3.6

–2.3
–1.7
–2.6

–1.9
–1.3
–2.2

–0.5
–0.9
–0.3

–1.4
–1.4
–1.4

–1.8
–1.6
–1.9

–1.2
–1.7
–0.9

2
3
4

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 .......................

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.9

2.1

2.2

2.1

2.2

5

1.3
0.7
–19.7
–0.1
1.2

1.3
0.7
–18.3
0.0
1.2

1.4
0.2
–14.3
0.3
1.2

1.4
–0.3
–12.4
0.4
1.3

1.7
–0.2
–5.3
1.1
1.5

1.7
–0.1
–12.4
0.8
1.6

1.6
–0.2
–12.7
0.7
1.5

1.6
0.1
–8.1
0.9
1.4

6
7
8
9
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.