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NEWS RELEASE
EMBARGOED UNTIL RELEASE AT 8:30 A.M. EDT, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2016
BEA 16-22
Technical: James Rankin
(202) 606-5301 (Personal Income)
piniwd@bea.gov
Harvey Davis
(202) 606-5302 (Personal Consumption Expenditures) pce@bea.gov
Media:
Jeannine Aversa (202) 606-2649
PERSONAL INCOME AND OUTLAYS: MARCH 2016
Personal income increased $57.4 billion, or 0.4 percent, and disposable personal income (DPI)
increased $50.4 billion, or 0.4 percent, in March, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $12.8 billion, or 0.1 percent. In February,
personal income increased $12.0 billion, or 0.1 percent, DPI increased $11.4 billion, or 0.1 percent,
and PCE increased $21.4 billion, or 0.2 percent, based on revised estimates.
Real DPI increased 0.3 percent in March, compared with an increase of 0.2 percent in
February. Real PCE increased less than 0.1 percent, compared with an increase of 0.3 percent.
2015
Nov.
Personal income, current dollars
Disposable personal income:
Current dollars
Chained (2009) dollars
Personal consumption expenditures:
Current dollars
Chained (2009) dollars

0.3

2016
Dec.
Jan.
Feb.
(Percent change from preceding month)
0.3
0.4
0.1

Mar.
0.4

0.2
0.1

0.3
0.3

0.4
0.2

0.1
0.2

0.4
0.3

0.4
0.3

0.1
0.2

0.2
0.0

0.2
0.3

0.1
0.0

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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 $29.2 billion in March, in contrast to a decrease of $4.6 billion in
February. Private wages and salaries increased $26.3 billion, in contrast to a decrease of $8.0 billion.
Government wages and salaries increased $2.8 billion, compared with an increase of $3.4 billion.
Supplements to wages and salaries increased $5.4 billion in March, compared with an increase of $3.0
billion in February.

Other personal income
Proprietors' income increased $0.6 billion in March, in contrast to a decrease of $2.4 billion in
February. Farm proprietors' income decreased $0.9 billion, the same decrease as in February. Nonfarm
proprietors' income increased $1.5 billion in March, in contrast to a decrease of $1.6 billion in February.
Rental income of persons increased $5.4 billion in March, compared with an increase of $5.2 billion
in February. Personal income receipts on assets (personal interest income plus personal dividend income)
increased $12.5 billion, in contrast to a decrease of $4.3 billion.
Personal current transfer receipts increased $7.6 billion in March, compared with an increase of $14.0
billion in February.
Contributions for government social insurance -- a subtraction in calculating personal income -increased $3.3 billion in March, in contrast to a decrease of $1.2 billion in February.

Personal current taxes and disposable personal income
Personal current taxes increased $6.9 billion in March, compared with an increase of $0.6 billion in
February. Disposable personal income (DPI) -- personal income less personal current taxes -- increased
$50.4 billion, or 0.4 percent, compared with an increase of $11.4 billion, or 0.1 percent.

Personal outlays and personal saving
Personal outlays -- PCE, personal interest payments, and personal current transfer payments -increased $11.2 billion in March, compared with an increase of $20.0 billion in February. PCE increased
$12.8 billion, compared with an increase of $21.4 billion.
Personal saving -- DPI less personal outlays -- was $735.5 billion in March, compared with $696.4
billion in February. The personal saving rate -- personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal
income -- was 5.4 percent, compared with 5.1 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/nipafrb.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 March, compared with
an increase of 0.2 percent in February.
Real PCE -- PCE adjusted to remove price changes -- increased less than 0.1 percent in March,
compared with an increase of 0.3 percent in February. Purchases of durable goods decreased 0.3 percent, in
contrast to an increase of 0.4 percent. Purchases of motor vehicles and parts more than accounted for the
decrease in March. Purchases of nondurable goods increased 0.7 percent in March, in contrast to a decrease
of 0.3 percent in February. Purchases of services decreased 0.1 percent, in contrast to an increase of 0.4
percent.
The price index for PCE increased 0.1 percent in March, in contrast to a decrease of 0.1 percent in
February. The PCE price index, excluding food and energy, increased 0.1 percent, compared with an
increase of 0.2 percent.
The March PCE price index increased 0.8 percent from March a year ago. The March PCE price
index, excluding food and energy, increased 1.6 percent from March a year ago.

Revisions
Estimates have been revised for January and February. Changes in personal income, in current-dollar
and chained (2009) dollar DPI, and in current-dollar and chained (2009) dollar PCE for January and for
February -- revised and as published in last month's release -- are shown below.
Change from preceding month
January
February
Previous Revised Previous Revised
Previous Revised Previous Revised
(Billions of dollars)
(Percent)
(Billions of dollars)
(Percent)
Personal income:
Current dollars
Disposable personal income:
Current dollars
Chained (2009) dollars
Personal consumption expenditures:
Current dollars
Chained (2009) dollars

72.7

63.3

0.5

0.4

23.7

12.0

0.2

0.1

57.2
38.2

49.9
29.1

0.4
0.3

0.4
0.2

23.7
34.8

11.4
22.6

0.2
0.3

0.1
0.2

10.7
-2.9

19.1
2.4

0.1
0.0

0.2
0.0

11.0
22.1

21.4
30.6

0.1
0.2

0.2
0.3

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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 the GDP Technical Note.

BEA's national, international, regional, and industry estimates; BEA news releases; and related
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Next release – Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at 8:30 A.M. EDT
Personal Income and Outlays for April

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

2015
Aug.

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

Sept.

Oct.

Line

2016
Nov.

Dec.

Jan. r

Feb. r

March p

15,451.3 15,472.9 15,520.7 15,561.2 15,601.4 15,664.8 15,676.8 15,734.1
9,719.9 9,718.5 9,768.8 9,816.1 9,835.6 9,887.5 9,885.9 9,920.5

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

7,879.5
6,604.6
1,314.1
805.9
5,290.4
1,244.2
4,046.2
1,274.9

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

7,919.5
6,642.4
1,315.5
805.0
5,326.9
1,252.6
4,074.3
1,277.0

7,960.3
6,681.1
1,331.9
816.5
5,349.2
1,257.2
4,092.0
1,279.2

7,975.2
6,693.5
1,320.5
804.9
5,373.0
1,261.3
4,111.7
1,281.7

8,021.0
6,733.6
1,330.1
812.3
5,403.5
1,263.5
4,140.0
1,287.4

8,016.4
6,725.6
1,325.2
808.6
5,400.4
1,264.2
4,136.2
1,290.8

8,045.6
6,751.9
1,326.2
807.9
5,425.8
1,268.8
4,156.9
1,293.7

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

1,840.4

1,843.1

1,849.4

1,855.8

1,860.4

1,866.5

1,869.5

1,874.9

11

1,270.4
569.9

1,273.9
569.2

1,277.6
571.7

1,281.5
574.3

1,285.7
574.8

1,289.5
577.0

1,293.4
576.1

1,297.4
577.5

12
13

1,398.1
65.2
1,332.9
663.4
2,202.5
1,335.0
867.5
2,676.7
2,633.2
875.9
622.4
540.1
33.2
94.6
467.0
43.4
1,209.2

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
1,213.6

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
1,218.8

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
1,220.3

1,414.4
50.7
1,363.7
679.6
2,193.2
1,315.0
878.2
2,719.4
2,675.1
884.8
637.8
550.3
32.7
98.0
471.4
44.3
1,229.3

1,412.0
49.9
1,362.1
684.8
2,188.8
1,321.0
867.8
2,733.4
2,688.9
887.1
641.0
552.6
32.6
98.5
477.0
44.5
1,228.1

1,412.6
49.0
1,363.6
690.2
2,201.4
1,327.0
874.4
2,740.9
2,696.2
886.9
644.1
554.8
32.1
99.3
479.1
44.7
1,231.4

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

1,958.7 1,958.8 1,975.4 1,987.9 1,993.8 2,007.3 2,007.8 2,014.8
13,492.6 13,514.1 13,545.3 13,573.3 13,607.6 13,657.5 13,668.9 13,719.3
12,810.8 12,831.9 12,854.1 12,907.5 12,929.8 12,952.6 12,972.6 12,983.8
12,363.6 12,386.7 12,405.5 12,455.0 12,473.4 12,492.5 12,513.9 12,526.6
4,033.2 4,012.7 4,005.3 4,027.5 4,001.7 3,986.5 3,959.1 3,966.5
1,339.1 1,345.3 1,339.0 1,353.9 1,347.8 1,339.9 1,341.1 1,332.6
2,694.1 2,667.4 2,666.3 2,673.6 2,653.9 2,646.6 2,618.1 2,633.9
8,330.4 8,374.0 8,400.2 8,427.5 8,471.7 8,506.0 8,554.7 8,560.1
269.4
267.1
270.6
274.1
277.6
276.1
274.6
273.1
177.7
178.0
178.0
178.3
178.7
183.9
184.1
184.1
97.7
98.0
98.3
98.6
99.0
103.7
103.8
103.8
80.0
80.0
79.7
79.7
79.7
80.2
80.2
80.2
681.8
682.2
691.2
665.8
677.9
704.9
696.4
735.5
5.1
5.0
5.1
4.9
5.0
5.2
5.1
5.4

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

11,639.8 11,659.7 11,690.7 11,706.6 11,737.8 11,772.8 11,782.5 11,821.5

45

12,293.9 12,320.4 12,339.6 12,349.8 12,391.3 12,420.4 12,443.0 12,482.2

46

41,900
38,178
322,016

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

41,936
38,232
322,255

42,003
38,264
322,484

42,062
38,270
322,697

42,142
38,375
322,897

42,273
38,444
323,076

42,287
38,495
323,238

42,420
38,595
323,413

p Preliminary
r Revised
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

2014
IV

2016

2015
I

II

III

1 Personal income.................................................................................... 14,694.2 15,340.4 14,955.7 15,079.8 15,277.0 15,443.7
2 Compensation of employees ............................................................ 9,248.9 9,654.9 9,424.9 9,487.9 9,615.2 9,709.5
3
Wages and salaries......................................................................... 7,477.8 7,824.0 7,632.6 7,682.4 7,791.8 7,870.0
4
Private industries ........................................................................... 6,240.5 6,555.2 6,384.4 6,425.9 6,526.7 6,595.8
5
Goods-producing industries ....................................................... 1,260.9 1,306.4 1,292.9 1,288.0 1,303.2 1,311.5
6
Manufacturing .........................................................................
780.9
801.7
796.5
792.1
801.7
804.1
7
Services-producing industries .................................................... 4,979.7 5,248.8 5,091.5 5,138.0 5,223.5 5,284.2
8
Trade, transportation, and utilities........................................... 1,175.5 1,235.1 1,203.3 1,210.9 1,229.1 1,243.5
9
Other services-producing industries ....................................... 3,804.2 4,013.7 3,888.2 3,927.0 3,994.4 4,040.8
10
Government................................................................................... 1,237.2 1,268.8 1,248.2 1,256.5 1,265.0 1,274.2
11
Supplements to wages and salaries ............................................. 1,771.2 1,830.9 1,792.3 1,805.5 1,823.4 1,839.5
Employer contributions for employee pension and insurance
12
funds 1 ......................................................................................... 1,224.0 1,264.3 1,236.3 1,246.8 1,258.3 1,270.3
13
Employer contributions for government social insurance ..............
547.2
566.6
556.0
558.7
565.0
569.2
14 Proprietors’ income with inventory valuation and capital
consumption adjustments ............................................................. 1,346.7 1,388.3 1,377.9 1,369.4 1,377.0 1,400.1
15
Farm .................................................................................................
78.1
59.9
74.8
60.5
56.9
65.2
16
Nonfarm ............................................................................................ 1,268.6 1,328.4 1,303.0 1,308.9 1,320.1 1,334.9
17 Rental income of persons with capital consumption adjustment
610.8
656.6
628.4
637.0
654.1
663.6
18 Personal income receipts on assets................................................
2,117.5 2,180.5 2,130.6 2,145.5 2,178.3 2,202.8
19
Personal interest income .................................................................. 1,302.0 1,312.3 1,289.8 1,282.6 1,313.4 1,335.0
20
Personal dividend income.................................................................
815.5
868.2
840.8
863.0
864.9
867.8
21 Personal current transfer receipts ................................................... 2,529.2 2,662.7 2,571.0 2,625.8 2,651.3 2,675.7
22
Government social benefits to persons ............................................ 2,487.2 2,619.5 2,528.9 2,583.4 2,608.4 2,632.2
23
Social security 2 ..............................................................................
834.6
871.8
843.8
861.6
869.4
874.5
24
Medicare 3 ......................................................................................
597.8
619.8
605.3
609.8
615.3
622.5
25
Medicaid ........................................................................................
487.4
534.9
507.1
523.9
529.0
540.4
26
Unemployment insurance..............................................................
35.8
33.3
32.9
35.0
33.1
32.9
27
Veterans’ benefits ..........................................................................
83.7
94.4
86.7
90.7
94.1
95.1
28
Other..............................................................................................
447.9
465.3
453.3
462.2
467.5
466.9
29
Other current transfer receipts, from business (net) .........................
42.0
43.2
42.1
42.4
42.9
43.4
30 Less: Contributions for government social insurance, domestic
1,159.0 1,202.5 1,177.2 1,185.8 1,198.9 1,207.9
31 Less: Personal current taxes ............................................................... 1,780.2 1,945.4 1,838.8 1,900.1 1,938.7 1,957.3
32 Equals: Disposable personal income.................................................. 12,913.9 13,395.0 13,116.8 13,179.8 13,338.3 13,486.4
33 Less: Personal outlays ......................................................................... 12,293.7 12,717.5 12,502.5 12,492.2 12,674.5 12,806.2
34 Personal consumption expenditures .................................................... 11,865.9 12,271.9 12,061.4 12,055.5 12,228.4 12,359.0
35
Goods ............................................................................................... 3,948.4 3,978.8 3,980.1 3,901.5 3,978.1 4,024.1
36
Durable goods ............................................................................... 1,280.2 1,328.7 1,303.5 1,301.8 1,326.4 1,339.6
37
Nondurable goods ......................................................................... 2,668.2 2,650.1 2,676.6 2,599.7 2,651.8 2,684.4
38
Services ............................................................................................ 7,917.5 8,293.1 8,081.3 8,153.9 8,250.2 8,334.9
39 Personal interest payments 4 ................................................................
254.2
268.5
263.1
261.3
269.3
269.4
40 Personal current transfer payments .....................................................
173.6
177.1
178.0
175.5
176.8
177.8
41
To government ..................................................................................
95.3
97.7
95.9
97.0
97.2
97.8
42
To the rest of the world (net) .............................................................
78.3
79.4
82.2
78.5
79.6
80.0
43 Equals: Personal saving.......................................................................
620.2
677.5
614.3
687.6
663.9
680.2
44 Personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income
4.8
5.1
4.7
5.2
5.0
5.0
Addenda:
45 Personal income excluding current transfer receipts, billions of
chained (2009) dollars 5 .................................................................. 11,149.8 11,584.1 11,329.0 11,447.6 11,542.2 11,635.1
Disposable personal income:
46
Total, billions of chained (2009) dollars 5 ........................................... 11,836.3 12,239.5 11,998.7 12,114.7 12,193.6 12,289.8
Per capita:
47
Current dollars ...............................................................................
40,453
41,638
40,962
41,088
41,509
41,881
48
Chained (2009) dollars ..................................................................
37,077
38,046
37,470
37,767
37,947
38,165
49 Population (midperiod, thousands) 6 ..................................................... 319,233 321,704 320,222 320,771 321,337 322,015

IV

I

15,561.1 15,691.9
9,806.9 9,898.0
7,951.7 8,027.7
6,672.3 6,737.0
1,322.6 1,327.2
808.8
809.6
5,349.7 5,409.9
1,257.0 1,265.5
4,092.7 4,144.4
1,279.3 1,290.6
1,855.2 1,870.3
1,281.6
573.6

Line

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11

1,293.4
576.8

12
13

1,406.7 1,413.0
57.1
49.9
1,349.7 1,363.1
671.7
684.9
2,195.3 2,194.4
1,318.3 1,321.0
876.9
873.5
2,698.0 2,731.2
2,654.0 2,686.7
881.7
886.3
631.4
641.0
546.3
552.6
32.2
32.5
97.8
98.6
464.7
475.8
44.0
44.5
1,217.6 1,229.6
1,985.7 2,010.0
13,575.4 13,681.9
12,897.1 12,969.6
12,444.7 12,511.0
4,011.5 3,970.7
1,346.9 1,337.9
2,664.6 2,632.9
8,433.1 8,540.3
274.1
274.6
178.3
184.0
98.7
103.8
79.7
80.2
678.3
712.3
5.0
5.2

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

11,711.7 11,792.3

45

12,360.2 12,448.5

46

42,069
38,303
322,693

47
48
49

42,327
38,511
323,242

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
Aug.

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

Sept.

Oct.

Line

2016
Nov.

Dec.

Jan.

r

Feb.

r

March

p

44.5
29.8
24.4
21.4
0.9
0.8
20.5
4.7
15.8
3.0
5.3

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

47.8
50.4
44.1
42.8
8.3
3.8
34.5
5.9
28.6
1.3
6.2

40.5
47.2
40.8
38.6
16.4
11.4
22.3
4.6
17.7
2.2
6.4

40.2
19.6
14.9
12.5
–11.3
–11.5
23.8
4.1
19.7
2.4
4.7

63.3
51.9
45.8
40.1
9.5
7.3
30.6
2.3
28.3
5.7
6.1

12.0
–1.6
–4.6
–8.0
–4.8
–3.6
–3.2
0.6
–3.8
3.4
3.0

57.4
34.6
29.2
26.3
0.9
–0.8
25.4
4.6
20.8
2.8
5.4

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11

4.0
1.3

3.5
–0.7

3.7
2.6

3.9
2.5

4.1
0.5

3.9
2.2

3.9
–0.9

4.0
1.4

12
13

0.1
2.8
–2.6
1.8
5.8
2.0
3.8
9.9
9.7
3.7
2.6
3.6
0.2
–0.4
0.1
0.2
2.9
4.5
40.0
34.9
37.0
6.9
4.6
2.3
30.1
–2.3
0.2
0.2
0.0
5.1

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
5.4
16.5
31.2
22.2
18.8
–7.4
–6.3
–1.1
26.2
3.5
–0.1
0.3
–0.3
9.0

–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
5.1
12.6
28.0
53.4
49.5
22.2
14.9
7.3
27.3
3.5
0.3
0.3
0.0
–25.4

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
1.5
5.9
34.4
22.3
18.4
–25.8
–6.1
–19.7
44.2
3.5
0.4
0.4
0.0
12.1

2.2
–0.9
3.0
4.4
6.2
6.0
0.2
7.9
7.8
–4.5
3.4
1.1
0.1
–0.7
8.5
0.1
9.1
13.5
49.9
22.8
19.1
–15.2
–7.9
–7.3
34.3
–1.5
5.3
4.7
0.6
27.0

–2.4
–0.9
–1.6
5.2
–4.3
6.0
–10.3
14.0
13.8
2.3
3.2
2.3
–0.1
0.5
5.6
0.2
–1.2
0.6
11.4
20.0
21.4
–27.4
1.1
–28.5
48.7
–1.5
0.1
0.1
0.0
–8.6

0.6
–0.9
1.5
5.4
12.5
6.0
6.6
7.6
7.4
–0.2
3.0
2.1
–0.6
0.9
2.1
0.2
3.3
6.9
50.4
11.2
12.8
7.4
–8.4
15.8
5.3
–1.5
0.0
0.0
0.0
39.2

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

33.8
38.9

19.9
26.5

31.0
19.2

15.9
10.1

31.2
41.6

35.0
29.1

9.8
22.6

39.0
39.2

44
45

p Preliminary
r Revised
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

2014

2016

2015

IV

I

II

III

IV

I

Line

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

646.2
405.9
346.2
314.7
45.5
20.8
269.2
59.6
209.5
31.5
59.7
40.3
19.5

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

117.4
97.4
81.7
76.6
11.1
4.7
65.5
13.5
51.9
5.1
15.7
11.3
4.4

130.8
91.1
76.0
64.7
4.5
0.8
60.2
8.5
51.7
11.3
15.1
11.9
3.2

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
43.6
165.2
481.0
423.7
405.9
30.4
48.5
–18.1
375.5
14.3
3.5
2.4
1.2
57.3

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
9.6
28.4
89.0
90.9
85.7
–12.5
7.3
–19.9
98.2
4.7
0.5
0.9
–0.3
–1.9

6.3
–7.2
13.4
13.1
–0.8
2.6
–3.5
33.2
32.7
4.6
9.5
6.3
0.3
0.8
11.2
0.5
12.1
24.3
106.5
72.5
66.4
–40.8
–9.1
–31.7
107.1
0.5
5.7
5.1
0.6
33.9

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

434.3
403.3

164.4
135.6

118.7
115.9

94.5
78.9

93.0
96.1

76.5
70.5

80.6
88.3

44
45

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
Aug.

Sept.

Oct.

Line

2016
Nov.

Dec.

Jan.

r

Feb.

r

March

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

0.3
0.3
0.3
0.3

0.1
0.0
–0.1
0.2

0.3
0.5
0.6
0.3

0.3
0.5
0.5
0.3

0.3
0.2
0.2
0.3

0.4
0.5
0.6
0.3

0.1
0.0
–0.1
0.2

0.4
0.3
0.4
0.3

1
2
3
4

0.0
0.3
0.3
0.2
0.4
0.4
0.2
0.2
0.3

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
0.4
0.8
0.2

–0.4
0.5
–0.3
–0.7
0.4
0.3
0.4
0.6
0.2

0.8
0.5
–0.4
–0.7
0.0
0.6
0.1
0.3
0.3

0.2
0.6
0.3
0.5
0.0
0.3
0.7
0.7
0.4

–0.2
0.8
–0.2
0.5
–1.2
0.5
–0.1
0.0
0.1

0.0
0.8
0.6
0.5
0.8
0.3
0.3
0.3
0.4

5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13

0.3
0.2
0.3
0.1
0.4

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

0.2
–0.4
–0.6
–0.3
0.4

0.2
–0.7
0.1
–1.1
0.6

0.1
0.2
–0.6
0.6
0.1

14
15
16
17
18

0.1
0.1

0.3
0.3

0.3
0.2

0.1
0.2

0.3
0.3

19
20

Based on chained (2009) dollar measures
19
20

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

0.3
0.3

0.2
0.2

0.3
0.2

p Preliminary
r Revised

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

2014

2015

2014
IV

2016

2015
I

II

III

IV

Line

I

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

4.4
4.4
4.6
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

3.1
4.1
4.2
3.5

3.4
3.8
3.9
3.3

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
3.8
9.3
3.7

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
3.2
5.9
2.7

1.8
8.0
–0.2
0.8
–1.6
5.0
4.0
5.0
3.2

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

2.1
–4.0
–2.7
–4.7
5.2

14
15
16
17
18

4.3
3.9

3.3
2.6

3.3
3.2

2.7
2.3

2.8
2.9

19
20

Based on chained (2009) dollar measures
19
20

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

3.0
2.7

3.9
3.4

6.0
4.7

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

Line

Aug.

Sept.

Oct.

2016
Nov.

Dec.

Jan. r

Line

Feb. r

March p

11,391.6
3,913.6
1,492.6
2,449.8
7,477.4

11,397.1
3,927.1
1,488.4
2,466.1
7,470.8

1
2
3
4
5

30.6
–3.0
5.3
–7.3
32.1

5.5
13.5
–4.2
16.3
–6.7

6
7
8
9
10

0.3
–0.1
0.4
–0.3
0.4

0.0
0.3
–0.3
0.7
–0.1

11
12
13
14

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

11,265.2
3,909.0
1,484.1
2,452.5
7,359.7

11,292.7
3,909.1
1,487.0
2,450.2
7,386.2

11,301.3
3,902.6
1,483.2
2,447.2
7,400.4

11,332.3
3,927.6
1,503.8
2,453.7
7,407.9

11,358.5
3,923.6
1,499.4
2,453.5
7,436.8

11,361.0
3,916.6
1,487.3
2,457.0
7,445.4

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

35.9
21.3
10.1
11.6
15.4

27.4
0.1
3.0
–2.3
26.5

8.6
–6.5
–3.8
–3.0
14.3

31.0
25.0
20.5
6.5
7.4

26.2
–4.0
–4.3
–0.2
28.9

2.4
–7.0
–12.2
3.5
8.6

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

0.3
0.5
0.7
0.5
0.2

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
–0.2
–0.8
0.1
0.1

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

Line

I

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
7,144.6

11,213.3
3,869.6
1,466.5
2,430.0
7,345.3

11,033.3
3,793.2
1,423.5
2,393.7
7,240.4

11,081.2
3,803.7
1,430.4
2,397.8
7,277.4

11,178.9
3,855.0
1,458.3
2,423.0
7,325.3

11,262.4
3,902.0
1,481.7
2,447.9
7,363.4

11,330.7
3,917.9
1,495.5
2,451.5
7,415.0

11,383.2
3,919.1
1,489.4
2,457.6
7,464.5

1
2
3
4
5

97.7
51.3
27.8
25.2
47.9

83.5
47.0
23.4
24.9
38.1

68.3
16.0
13.8
3.6
51.6

52.5
1.2
–6.1
6.1
49.5

6
7
8
9
10

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
0.1
–1.6
1.0
2.7

11
12
13
14

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
167.6

337.6
138.5
82.4
62.2
200.7

114.7
38.0
21.0
18.5
76.5

48.0
10.5
7.0
4.1
37.0

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

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

15

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

Line

Aug.

Sept.

2016

Oct.

Nov.

Dec.

Jan.

Feb. r

r

March 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 .......................

109.753
103.172
90.216
109.848
113.196

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

109.963
101.782
90.076
107.713
114.252

109.855
101.159
89.832
106.869
114.414

109.914
101.000
89.520
106.804
114.587

1
2
3
4
5

109.603
111.176
107.856
108.547
108.174

109.794
111.371
102.512
108.480
108.395

109.860
111.461
102.840
108.565
108.461

110.020
111.197
103.133
108.658
108.574

110.095
110.867
100.033
108.542
108.644

110.419
110.705
97.051
108.595
108.889

110.598
110.911
90.765
108.504
109.129

110.655
110.412
91.777
108.554
109.175

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

0.0
–0.4
–0.3
–0.4
0.2

–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
0.1

0.1
–0.2
–0.3
–0.1
0.2

11
12
13
14
15

0.1
0.2
–2.3
0.0
0.1

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

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

Aug.

Sept.

Oct.

2016
Nov.

Dec.

Jan. r

Feb. r

March p

Line

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

3.5

3.7

3.4

2.9

2.7

2.6

2.6

3.1

1

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

3.0
3.6
5.0
2.9
2.7

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
3.1
4.2
2.6
2.4

2.9
3.5
5.2
2.6
2.6

2.6
2.5
3.0
2.3
2.7

2
3
4
5
6

p Preliminary
r Revised

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

Line
1

Aug.

Sept.

Oct.

2016
Nov.

Dec.

Jan. r

Feb. r

March p

Line

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

0.3

0.2

0.2

0.5

0.7

1.3

1.0

0.8

1

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

–2.7
–2.3
–3.0

–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

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

1.8

1.9

1.9

1.9

1.9

2.1

2.1

2.1

5

1.3
0.7
–16.2
0.0
1.1

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

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.