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NEWS RELEASE
EMBARGOED UNTIL RELEASE AT 8:30 A.M. EST, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2015
BEA 15-56
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: OCTOBER 2015
Personal income increased $68.1 billion, or 0.4 percent, and disposable personal income (DPI)
increased $56.8 billion, or 0.4 percent, in October, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $15.2 billion, or 0.1 percent. In September,
personal income increased $27.4 billion, or 0.2 percent, DPI increased $27.0 billion, or 0.2 percent,
and PCE increased $9.5 billion, or 0.1 percent, based on revised estimates.
Real DPI increased 0.4 percent in October, compared with an increase of 0.3 percent in
September. Real PCE increased 0.1 percent in October, the same increase as in September.

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

0.5

2015
July
Aug.
Sept.
(Percent change from preceding month)
0.4
0.4
0.2

Oct.
0.4

0.5
0.2

0.5
0.4

0.4
0.4

0.2
0.3

0.4
0.4

0.3
0.1

0.3
0.2

0.3
0.3

0.1
0.1

0.1
0.1

This news release presents revised estimates of wages and salaries, personal taxes, and contributions for
government social insurance for April through June 2015 (second quarter). These estimates reflect the
incorporation of the most recently available second-quarter wage and salary tabulations from the
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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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 $45.0 billion in October, compared with an increase of $2.5 billion in
September. Private wages and salaries increased $43.0 billion, compared with an increase of $1.5 billion.
Government wages and salaries increased $2.0 billion, compared with an increase of $1.0 billion.
Supplements to wages and salaries increased $6.5 billion in October, compared with an increase of
$3.4 billion in September.
Other personal income
Proprietors' income increased $4.3 billion in October, compared with an increase of $5.9 billion in
September. Farm proprietors' income decreased $0.4 billion, in contrast to an increase of $3.4 billion.
Nonfarm proprietors' income increased $4.7 billion, compared with an increase of $2.5 billion.
Rental income of persons increased $5.2 billion in October, compared with an increase of $2.6 billion
in September. Personal income receipts on assets (personal interest income plus personal dividend income)
increased $4.7 billion, compared with an increase of $5.8 billion. Personal current transfer receipts increased
$8.0 billion in October, compared with an increase of $7.2 billion in September.
Contributions for government social insurance -- a subtraction in calculating personal income -increased $5.5 billion in October, in contrast to a decrease of $0.1 billion in September
Personal current taxes and disposable personal income
Personal current taxes increased $11.4 billion in October, compared with an increase of $0.4 billion in
September. Disposable personal income (DPI) -- personal income less personal current taxes -- increased
$56.8 billion, or 0.4 percent, compared with an increase of $27.0 billion, or 0.2 percent.
Personal outlays and personal saving
Personal outlays -- PCE, personal interest payments, and personal current transfer payments -increased $17.8 billion in October, compared with an increase of $7.3 billion in September. PCE increased
$15.2 billion, compared with an increase of $9.5 billion.
Personal saving -- DPI less personal outlays -- was $761.9 billion in October, compared with $722.9
billion in September. The personal saving rate -- personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal
income -- was 5.6 percent, compared with 5.3 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 0.4 percent in October, compared with
an increase of 0.3 percent in September.
Real PCE -- PCE adjusted to remove price changes -- increased 0.1 percent in October, the same
increase as in September. Purchases of durable goods increased 0.2 percent in October, the same increase as
in September. Purchases of nondurable goods increased 0.1 percent in October, in contrast to a decrease of
0.2 percent in September. Purchases of services increased less than 0.1 percent, compared to an increase of
0.2 percent.
The price index for PCE increased 0.1 percent in October, in contrast to a decrease of 0.1 percent in
September. The PCE price index, excluding food and energy, increased less than 0.1 percent, compared to
an increase of 0.2 percent.
The October price index for PCE increased 0.2 percent from October a year ago. The October PCE
price index, excluding food and energy, increased 1.3 percent from October a year ago.

Revisions
Estimates have been revised for April through September. Changes in personal income, in currentdollar and chained (2009) dollar DPI, and in current-dollar and chained (2009) dollar PCE for August and
September -- revised and as published in last month's release -- are shown below.
Estimates of wages and salaries were revised from April through September. The revision to secondquarter wages and salaries reflect the incorporation of the most recently available BLS tabulations of
second-quarter wages and salaries from the QCEW. Revised estimates for July, August, and September
reflect extrapolation from the revised second-quarter level of wages. In addition, revisions to August and
September reflect revised BLS employment, hours, and earnings data for those months.
Change from preceding month
August
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

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

54.9

56.0

0.4

0.4

18.6

27.4

0.1

0.2

49.5
46.9

51.0
48.9

0.4
0.4

0.4
0.4

19.2
27.3

27.0
32.3

0.1
0.2

0.2
0.3

44.2
41.9

40.2
38.9

0.4
0.4

0.3
0.3

15.6
23.2

9.5
15.6

0.1
0.2

0.1
0.1

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BEA's news release schedule is available at www.bea.gov/newsreleases/2016rd.htm.

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Next release – December 23, 2015 at 8:30 A.M. EST for
Personal Income and Outlays for November

Personal Income and Outlays Release Dates for 2016
December 2015.. February 1
January 2016….. February 26
February 2016… March 28
March 2016…… April 29

April 2016…May 31
May 2016… June 29
June 2016… August 2
July 2016…. August 29

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August 2016…… September 30
September 2016…October 31
October 2016……November 30
November 2016…December 22

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

2015
March

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

April r

May r

June r

Line
July r

Aug. r

Sept. r

Oct. p

15,095.6 15,192.6 15,282.4 15,356.0 15,422.3 15,478.2 15,505.7 15,573.8 1
9,493.2 9,558.7 9,625.8 9,661.0 9,706.6 9,747.5 9,753.4 9,804.9 2
7,684.3 7,742.4 7,801.8 7,831.1 7,870.5 7,905.3 7,907.8 7,952.8 3
6,425.2 6,480.8 6,537.1 6,562.3 6,598.5 6,630.4 6,631.9 6,674.9 4
1,284.5 1,295.9 1,305.6 1,308.2 1,316.6 1,320.0 1,315.9 1,322.1 5
789.4
796.8
803.5
804.9
810.2
814.0
811.9
813.2 6
5,140.7 5,184.9 5,231.4 5,254.1 5,282.0 5,310.4 5,316.0 5,352.8 7
1,209.3 1,220.7 1,231.9 1,234.8 1,241.1 1,247.7 1,250.5 1,259.4 8
3,931.5 3,964.2 3,999.6 4,019.4 4,040.9 4,062.7 4,065.5 4,093.4 9
1,259.0 1,261.6 1,264.7 1,268.8 1,272.0 1,274.9 1,275.9 1,277.9 10
1,808.9 1,816.3 1,824.0 1,829.8 1,836.1 1,842.2 1,845.6 1,852.1 11
1,250.5 1,254.4 1,258.3 1,262.4 1,266.4 1,270.4 1,274.1 1,277.9 12
558.4
562.0
565.7
567.4
569.7
571.8
571.5
574.2 13
1,365.2 1,368.2 1,376.8 1,386.0 1,399.4 1,401.1 1,407.0 1,411.3 14
52.5
54.0
56.9
59.7
63.1
66.5
69.9
69.6 15
1,312.8 1,314.2 1,319.9 1,326.3 1,336.3 1,334.6 1,337.1 1,341.8 16
640.8
647.0
654.2
661.1
661.5
663.4
666.0
671.2 17
2,138.0 2,165.4 2,174.3 2,195.3 2,196.3 2,201.8 2,207.6 2,212.3 18
1,278.3 1,295.9 1,313.4 1,331.0 1,332.1 1,333.2 1,334.3 1,331.5 19
859.7
869.6
860.8
864.3
864.2
868.6
873.2
880.8 20
2,643.9 2,646.0 2,651.7 2,656.3 2,666.9 2,677.1 2,684.3 2,692.3 21
2,601.4 2,603.3 2,608.8 2,613.2 2,623.6 2,633.6 2,640.7 2,648.5 22
865.4
867.7
871.8
868.7
872.3
876.0
875.4
877.5 23
611.5
613.3
615.3
617.4
619.8
622.4
625.2
628.2 24
529.5
528.2
527.9
530.8
536.5
540.1
544.6
548.4 25
34.6
33.1
32.9
33.4
33.0
33.2
32.6
31.7 26
92.3
93.6
93.3
95.3
95.1
94.7
95.5
96.2 27
468.1
467.4
467.6
467.5
466.9
467.3
467.3
466.5 28
42.6
42.7
42.9
43.1
43.3
43.4
43.6
43.8 29
1,185.5 1,192.7 1,200.2 1,203.7 1,208.4 1,212.7 1,212.6 1,218.1 30
1,902.8 1,923.3 1,941.4 1,951.3 1,955.1 1,960.1 1,960.5 1,971.9 31
13,192.8 13,269.3 13,341.0 13,404.7 13,467.1 13,518.1 13,545.2 13,601.9 32
12,540.3 12,587.6 12,696.6 12,739.2 12,777.0 12,815.0 12,822.3 12,840.0 33
12,105.0 12,146.3 12,250.5 12,288.2 12,328.6 12,368.8 12,378.3 12,393.5 34
3,938.7 3,930.9 4,001.6 4,002.0 4,025.9 4,032.5 4,010.2 4,013.4 35
1,315.3 1,320.6 1,337.4 1,321.0 1,334.2 1,338.7 1,345.5 1,345.0 36
2,623.4 2,610.2 2,664.2 2,680.9 2,691.7 2,693.8 2,664.7 2,668.4 37
8,166.3 8,215.5 8,248.9 8,286.2 8,302.7 8,336.3 8,368.1 8,380.0 38
259.8
264.6
269.3
274.1
271.6
269.2
266.8
269.1 39
175.5
176.7
176.8
176.9
176.7
177.0
177.2
177.5 40
97.0
97.1
97.2
97.3
97.5
97.7
98.0
98.3 41
78.5
79.6
79.6
79.6
79.2
79.2
79.2
79.2 42
652.5
681.7
644.3
665.5
690.1
703.1
722.9
761.9 43
4.9
5.1
4.8
5.0
5.1
5.2
5.3
5.6 44

11,422.4 11,502.1 11,544.0 11,580.3 11,620.4 11,664.5 11,690.1 11,737.5 45
12,102.2 12,164.6 12,193.2 12,223.2 12,268.8 12,317.8 12,350.0 12,394.0 46
41,125
37,726
320,797

41,341
37,899
320,975

41,540
37,966
321,162

41,712
38,035
321,365

41,878
38,152
321,578

42,007
38,277
321,805

42,062
38,350
322,030

42,210 47
38,462 48
322,243 49

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

2013

2014

2014
II

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

III

2015
IV

I

II r

Line
III r

14,068.4 14,694.2 14,612.8 14,774.8 14,955.7 15,079.8 15,277.0 15,468.7 1
8,839.7 9,248.9 9,177.3 9,289.9 9,424.9 9,487.9 9,615.2 9,735.8 2
7,114.4 7,477.8 7,414.5 7,513.9 7,632.6 7,682.4 7,791.8 7,894.5 3
5,906.8 6,240.5 6,180.3 6,270.7 6,384.4 6,425.9 6,526.7 6,620.3 4
1,190.1 1,260.9 1,250.4 1,266.6 1,292.9 1,288.0 1,303.2 1,317.5 5
746.8
780.9
775.1
781.4
796.5
792.1
801.7
812.0 6
4,716.7 4,979.7 4,930.0 5,004.1 5,091.5 5,138.0 5,223.5 5,302.8 7
1,118.5 1,175.5 1,165.7 1,179.2 1,203.3 1,210.9 1,229.1 1,246.4 8
3,598.2 3,804.2 3,764.3 3,825.0 3,888.2 3,927.0 3,994.4 4,056.4 9
1,207.6 1,237.2 1,234.2 1,243.2 1,248.2 1,256.5 1,265.0 1,274.3 10
1,725.3 1,771.2 1,762.7 1,776.0 1,792.3 1,805.5 1,823.4 1,841.3 11
1,197.8 1,224.0 1,219.4 1,227.1 1,236.3 1,246.8 1,258.3 1,270.3 12
527.5
547.2
543.3
548.9
556.0
558.7
565.0
571.0 13
1,285.1 1,346.7 1,346.3 1,357.8 1,377.9 1,369.4 1,377.0 1,402.5 14
88.8
78.1
88.8
77.2
74.8
60.5
56.9
66.5 15
1,196.3 1,268.6 1,257.5 1,280.6 1,303.0 1,308.9 1,320.1 1,336.0 16
563.4
610.8
605.5
618.4
628.4
637.0
654.1
663.7 17
2,060.4 2,117.5 2,121.8 2,115.0 2,130.6 2,145.5 2,178.3 2,201.9 18
1,271.3 1,302.0 1,310.0 1,288.1 1,289.8 1,282.6 1,313.4 1,333.2 19
789.0
815.5
811.9
826.8
840.8
863.0
864.9
868.7 20
2,426.6 2,529.2 2,513.1 2,556.5 2,571.0 2,625.8 2,651.3 2,676.1 21
2,385.5 2,487.2 2,471.1 2,514.4 2,528.9 2,583.4 2,608.4 2,632.6 22
799.0
834.6
833.2
837.2
843.8
861.6
869.4
874.6 23
574.6
597.8
595.6
600.8
605.3
609.8
615.3
622.5 24
439.7
487.4
473.6
505.9
507.1
523.9
529.0
540.4 25
62.3
35.8
36.0
34.6
32.9
35.0
33.1
32.9 26
79.1
83.7
82.3
83.8
86.7
90.7
94.1
95.1 27
430.8
447.9
450.5
452.2
453.3
462.2
467.5
467.2 28
41.2
42.0
42.0
42.1
42.1
42.4
42.9
43.4 29
1,106.8 1,159.0 1,151.2 1,162.9 1,177.2 1,185.8 1,198.9 1,211.3 30
1,672.8 1,780.2 1,754.1 1,792.0 1,838.8 1,900.1 1,938.7 1,958.6 31
12,395.6 12,913.9 12,858.7 12,982.7 13,116.8 13,179.8 13,338.3 13,510.1 32
11,805.7 12,293.7 12,235.2 12,377.0 12,502.5 12,492.2 12,674.5 12,804.7 33
11,392.3 11,865.9 11,813.0 11,949.1 12,061.4 12,055.5 12,228.4 12,358.6 34
3,836.8 3,948.4 3,951.5 3,987.4 3,980.1 3,901.5 3,978.1 4,022.9 35
1,237.8 1,280.2 1,279.1 1,295.1 1,303.5 1,301.8 1,326.4 1,339.5 36
2,598.9 2,668.2 2,672.4 2,692.2 2,676.6 2,599.7 2,651.8 2,683.4 37
7,555.5 7,917.5 7,861.5 7,961.7 8,081.3 8,153.9 8,250.2 8,335.7 38
244.2
254.2
250.5
254.3
263.1
261.3
269.3
269.2 39
169.3
173.6
171.7
173.6
178.0
175.5
176.8
177.0 40
92.6
95.3
95.2
95.7
95.9
97.0
97.2
97.8 41
76.6
78.3
76.5
77.9
82.2
78.5
79.6
79.2 42
589.9
620.2
623.5
605.7
614.3
687.6
663.9
705.4 43
4.8
4.8
4.8
4.7
4.7
5.2
5.0
5.2 44

10,822.3 11,149.8 11,089.0 11,164.6 11,329.0 11,447.6 11,542.2 11,658.3 45
11,523.1 11,836.3 11,784.7 11,863.1 11,998.7 12,114.7 12,193.6 12,312.2 46
39,123
36,369
316,839

40,461
37,084
319,173

40,331
36,962
318,833

40,638
37,134
319,470

40,977
37,484
320,100

41,107
37,785
320,623

41,531
37,967
321,167

41,982 47
38,260 48
321,804 49

r Revised. Revisions include changes to series affected by the incorporation of revised wage and salary estimates for the second 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
March

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

April r

May r

June r

Line
July r

Aug. r

Sept. r

Oct. p

–0.2
4.7
1.3
–1.0
–1.8
–1.9
0.9
–3.9
4.8
2.3
3.4
3.8
–0.4

97.0
65.6
58.1
55.6
11.4
7.3
44.1
11.4
32.7
2.6
7.4
3.8
3.6

89.8
67.1
59.4
56.3
9.7
6.7
46.6
11.2
35.4
3.1
7.7
3.9
3.8

73.6
35.2
29.4
25.3
2.6
1.5
22.7
2.9
19.8
4.1
5.8
4.1
1.7

66.3
45.6
39.3
36.2
8.3
5.3
27.8
6.3
21.5
3.2
6.3
4.0
2.3

56.0
40.9
34.8
31.9
3.4
3.8
28.5
6.6
21.8
3.0
6.1
4.0
2.1

27.4
5.9
2.5
1.5
–4.1
–2.1
5.6
2.8
2.8
1.0
3.4
3.6
–0.2

68.1
51.4
45.0
43.0
6.2
1.2
36.8
8.9
27.9
2.0
6.5
3.8
2.7

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

–2.2
–8.0
5.8
3.9
–27.8
–4.2
–23.5
20.7
20.5
5.8
1.7
4.6
–0.7
2.0
7.2
0.2
–0.5
2.6
–2.8
60.8
62.3
57.7
23.1
34.6
4.6
–1.5
0.0
0.0
0.0
–63.6

3.0
1.6
1.4
6.2
27.4
17.5
9.9
2.1
1.9
2.3
1.8
–1.3
–1.5
1.3
–0.7
0.2
7.3
20.5
76.5
47.3
41.3
–7.9
5.3
–13.2
49.2
4.8
1.2
0.1
1.1
29.2

8.6
2.8
5.7
7.2
8.8
17.5
–8.7
5.7
5.5
4.1
2.0
–0.3
–0.2
–0.3
0.2
0.2
7.5
18.1
71.7
109.1
104.2
70.8
16.8
54.0
33.5
4.8
0.1
0.1
0.0
–37.4

9.2
2.8
6.4
7.0
21.0
17.5
3.5
4.6
4.4
–3.2
2.2
3.0
0.6
2.0
–0.1
0.2
3.5
9.9
63.7
42.6
37.7
0.4
–16.4
16.7
37.3
4.8
0.1
0.1
0.0
21.1

13.4
3.4
10.0
0.4
1.0
1.1
–0.2
10.6
10.4
3.6
2.4
5.7
–0.4
–0.2
–0.6
0.2
4.7
3.9
62.4
37.8
40.4
23.9
13.2
10.7
16.5
–2.4
–0.2
0.2
–0.4
24.6

1.7
3.4
–1.7
1.9
5.5
1.1
4.4
10.2
10.0
3.7
2.6
3.6
0.2
–0.4
0.4
0.2
4.3
5.0
51.0
38.0
40.2
6.6
4.5
2.1
33.6
–2.4
0.2
0.2
0.0
13.0

5.9
3.4
2.5
2.6
5.8
1.1
4.6
7.2
7.0
–0.6
2.8
4.5
–0.6
0.8
0.0
0.2
–0.1
0.4
27.0
7.3
9.5
–22.3
6.8
–29.1
31.8
–2.4
0.3
0.3
0.0
19.7

4.3
–0.4
4.7
5.2
4.7
–2.9
7.6
8.0
7.8
2.1
3.0
3.7
–0.9
0.7
–0.8
0.2
5.5
11.4
56.8
17.8
15.2
3.2
–0.5
3.8
12.0
2.3
0.3
0.3
0.0
39.0

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

–44.3
–29.1

79.7
62.4

41.9
28.5

36.3
30.0

40.1
45.6

44.1
48.9

25.6
32.3

47.4 44
43.9 45

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

2013

2014

2014

2015

II

III

IV

I

II

r

Line
III

r

153.3
229.8
184.1
174.7
34.6
12.5
140.1
25.9
114.3
9.4
45.6
32.5
13.1

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

179.2
73.6
64.5
53.8
16.7
4.6
37.1
11.9
25.1
10.8
9.0
6.3
2.8

162.0
112.6
99.4
90.4
16.2
6.3
74.2
13.5
60.7
9.0
13.3
7.7
5.6

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

191.7
120.7
102.8
93.5
14.2
10.3
79.3
17.3
62.0
9.2
17.9
12.0
6.0

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

43.7
27.2
16.5
38.1
–63.4
–17.5
–45.9
60.3
61.9
36.9
18.2
22.4
–21.5
8.9
–3.2
–1.6
155.2
161.4
–8.1
348.7
341.7
97.7
45.9
51.7
244.0
3.5
3.5
1.6
1.9
–356.8

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

41.5
17.1
24.5
14.6
19.2
–10.2
29.4
37.1
36.9
8.7
6.1
10.5
–3.7
0.3
15.0
0.2
6.7
18.0
161.2
174.9
172.7
76.8
36.0
40.8
96.0
1.5
0.8
0.8
0.0
–13.7

11.5
–11.6
23.1
12.9
–6.9
–21.8
15.0
43.4
43.3
4.0
5.2
32.3
–1.3
1.5
1.6
0.1
11.6
38.0
124.0
141.8
136.1
35.9
16.0
19.8
100.2
3.8
1.9
0.5
1.4
–17.8

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

25.5
9.7
15.9
9.5
23.6
19.8
3.8
24.8
24.2
5.1
7.1
11.5
–0.2
1.0
–0.3
0.5
12.4
19.9
171.8
130.3
130.2
44.7
13.1
31.6
85.5
–0.1
0.2
0.6
–0.4
41.5

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

–60.3
–165.2

327.5
313.2

72.0
85.9

75.5
78.4

164.4
135.6

118.7
115.9

94.5
78.9

116.2 44
118.6 45

r Revised. Revisions include changes to series affected by the incorporation of revised wage and salary estimates for the second 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
March

April

r

May

r

June

r

Line
July

r

Aug.

r

Sept.

r

Oct.

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

0.0
0.0
0.0
0.2

0.6
0.7
0.8
0.4

0.6
0.7
0.8
0.4

0.5
0.4
0.4
0.3

0.4
0.5
0.5
0.3

0.4
0.4
0.4
0.3

0.2
0.1
0.0
0.2

0.4
0.5
0.6
0.4

1
2
3
4

–0.2
0.6
–1.3
–0.3
–2.7
0.8
0.0
0.1
0.0

0.2
1.0
1.3
1.4
1.1
0.1
0.6
1.1
0.6

0.6
1.1
0.4
1.4
–1.0
0.2
0.6
0.9
0.5

0.7
1.1
1.0
1.3
0.4
0.2
0.3
0.5
0.5

1.0
0.1
0.0
0.1
0.0
0.4
0.4
0.2
0.5

0.1
0.3
0.3
0.1
0.5
0.4
0.4
0.3
0.4

0.4
0.4
0.3
0.1
0.5
0.3
0.0
0.0
0.2

0.3
0.8
0.2
–0.2
0.9
0.3
0.5
0.6
0.4

5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13

0.5
1.5
1.8
1.3
0.1

0.3
–0.2
0.4
–0.5
0.6

0.9
1.8
1.3
2.1
0.4

0.3
0.0
–1.2
0.6
0.5

0.3
0.6
1.0
0.4
0.2

0.3
0.2
0.3
0.1
0.4

0.1
–0.6
0.5
–1.1
0.4

0.1
0.1
0.0
0.1
0.1

14
15
16
17
18

0.3
0.2

0.3
0.4

0.4
0.4

0.2
0.3

Based on chained (2009) dollar measures
19
20

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

–0.4
–0.2

0.7
0.5

0.4
0.2

0.4 19
0.4 20

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

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

2013

2014

2014
II

III

2015
IV

I

II

r

Line
III

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

1.1
2.7
2.7
2.7

4.4
4.6
5.1
2.7

5.1
3.3
3.6
2.1

4.5
5.0
5.5
3.0

5.0
5.9
6.5
3.7

3.4
2.7
2.6
3.0

5.3
5.5
5.8
4.0

5.1
5.1
5.4
4.0

1
2
3
4

3.5
7.2
–3.0
–1.4
–5.5
2.5
16.3
10.7
–0.1

4.8
8.4
2.8
2.4
3.4
4.2
4.7
6.4
4.2

13.4
10.2
3.7
–3.1
15.9
6.1
2.4
4.2
5.2

3.5
8.8
–1.3
–6.5
7.6
7.1
4.1
9.0
3.9

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

7.6
6.0
4.4
6.2
1.7
3.8
4.2
4.2
5.3

5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13

3.1
2.6
3.9
2.0
3.3

4.2
2.9
3.4
2.7
4.8

6.1
8.2
12.1
6.3
5.0

4.7
3.7
5.1
3.0
5.2

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
4.6
4.0
4.9
4.2

14
15
16
17
18

2.8
2.7

6.0
4.7

4.3
3.9

3.3
2.6

4.1 19
3.9 20

Based on chained (2009) dollar measures
19
20

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

–0.6
–1.4

3.0
2.7

2.6
3.0

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

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

Line

March

April

May

July r

June

Aug. r

Sept. r

Oct. p

11,270.5
3,908.2
1,483.5
2,452.2
7,365.6

11,286.1
3,906.4
1,487.2
2,447.4
7,382.3

11,292.8
3,912.4
1,489.7
2,451.0
7,383.4

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

11,104.4
3,829.7
1,445.7
2,409.6
7,276.1

11,135.1
3,827.8
1,449.3
2,404.9
7,307.7

11,196.5
3,872.2
1,470.1
2,429.4
7,326.6

11,205.1
3,864.9
1,455.3
2,434.7
7,341.7

11,231.7
3,887.3
1,473.6
2,440.8
7,346.9

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

32.8
46.6
27.2
21.2
–10.8

30.8
–1.8
3.6
–4.7
31.5

61.4
44.4
20.8
24.6
18.9

8.6
–7.4
–14.8
5.3
15.1

26.5
22.5
18.3
6.0
5.2

38.9
20.9
9.9
11.5
18.6

15.6
–1.8
3.7
–4.8
16.8

6.7 6
6.0 7
2.5 8
3.6 9
1.1 10

0.1
0.0
0.2
–0.2
0.2

0.1
0.2
0.2
0.1
0.0

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
1.2
1.9
0.9
–0.1

0.3
0.0
0.2
–0.2
0.4

0.6
1.2
1.4
1.0
0.3

0.1
–0.2
–1.0
0.2
0.2

0.2
0.6
1.3
0.2
0.1

0.3
0.5
0.7
0.5
0.3

11
12
13
14
15

p Preliminary
r Revised

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

2013

2014

2014
II

2015

III

IV

I

II

Line
III

r

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

10,590.4
3,612.8
1,307.6
2,319.8
6,977.0

10,875.7
3,731.2
1,384.1
2,367.8
7,144.6

10,826.3
3,718.0
1,377.2
2,361.0
7,108.5

10,918.6
3,755.2
1,402.5
2,375.2
7,163.8

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

114.7
38.0
21.0
18.5
76.5

48.0
10.5
7.0
4.1
37.0

97.7
51.3
27.8
25.2
47.9

4.3
4.1
6.1
3.1
4.3

1.8
1.1
2.0
0.7
2.1

3.6
5.5
8.0
4.3
2.7

11,262.8
3,900.6
1,481.4
2,446.8
7,364.9

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

177.2
108.5
71.4
42.3
68.9

285.3
118.4
76.5
48.0
167.6

101.6
59.7
44.0
19.7
42.9

92.3
37.2
25.2
14.2
55.3

83.8 6
45.7 7
23.2 8
23.8 9
39.6 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

1.7
3.1
5.8
1.9
1.0

2.7
3.3
5.9
2.1
2.4

3.8
6.7
13.9
3.4
2.4

3.5
4.1
7.5
2.4
3.1

3.0
4.8
6.5
4.0
2.2

11
12
13
14
15

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

Line

March

April

May

June

July r

Aug. r

Sept. r

Oct. 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 .......................

109.015
102.845
90.968
108.873
112.240

109.085
102.689
91.106
108.541
112.429

109.418
103.339
90.955
109.667
112.595

109.670
103.545
90.755
110.116
112.872

109.770
103.562
90.526
110.280
113.016

109.748
103.175
90.221
109.850
113.186

109.680
102.652
90.457
108.873
113.359

109.749
102.578
90.270
108.867
113.504

1
2
3
4
5

108.952
110.684
105.107
107.844
107.576

109.123
110.493
103.580
107.946
107.799

109.254
110.451
108.423
108.281
107.904

109.416
110.769
110.321
108.494
108.007

109.506
111.006
110.403
108.595
108.097

109.596
111.176
107.878
108.549
108.176

109.779
111.371
102.542
108.475
108.385

109.830 6
111.581 7
102.741 8
108.564 9
108.457 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 .......................

0.2
0.3
–0.1
0.4
0.2

0.1
–0.2
0.2
–0.3
0.2

0.3
0.6
–0.2
1.0
0.1

0.2
0.2
–0.2
0.4
0.2

0.1
0.0
–0.3
0.1
0.1

0.0
–0.4
–0.3
–0.4
0.2

–0.1
–0.5
0.3
–0.9
0.2

0.1
–0.1
–0.2
0.0
0.1

11
12
13
14
15

0.2
–0.3
1.5
0.2
0.2

0.2
–0.2
–1.5
0.1
0.2

0.1
0.0
4.7
0.3
0.1

0.1
0.3
1.8
0.2
0.1

0.1
0.2
0.1
0.1
0.1

0.1
0.2
–2.3
0.0
0.1

0.2
0.2
–4.9
–0.1
0.2

0.0
0.2
0.2
0.1
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

March

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

3.0
3.0
3.4
5.6
2.4
2.8

April

r

3.5
3.1
3.1
6.0
1.8
3.0

May

r

3.5
3.5
4.4
6.9
3.2
3.1

June

r

July r

3.4
3.2
3.5
4.8
2.9
3.0

3.7
3.3
4.0
6.0
3.1
3.0

Aug. r
3.7
3.0
3.6
4.9
2.9
2.8

Sept. r
3.9
3.1
4.0
6.0
3.1
2.6

Oct. p
3.9
2.7
3.7
5.6
2.8
2.2

Line
1
2
3
4
5
6

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

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

2015
March

April

May

June

July r

Aug. r

Sept. r

0.3
–2.8
–2.3
–3.1
1.8

0.2
–3.2
–2.2
–3.8
1.9

0.3
–2.8
–2.0
–3.1
1.8

0.3
–2.7
–2.1
–3.0
1.9

0.3
–2.7
–2.1
–2.9
1.8

0.3
–2.7
–2.3
–3.0
1.8

0.2
–3.2
–1.9
–3.9
1.9

1.3
1.7
–18.9
–0.1
1.1

1.3
1.3
–20.1
–0.1
1.1

1.3
0.7
–16.9
0.0
1.1

1.3
1.0
–15.9
0.0
1.1

1.3
0.9
–15.7
0.0
1.0

1.3
0.7
–16.2
0.0
1.1

1.3
0.7
–19.7
–0.1
1.1

Oct. p
0.2
–3.1
–2.0
–3.7
1.9

Line
1
2
3
4
5

1.3 6
0.8 7
–18.4 8
0.0 9
1.2 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.