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Technical:

Eric Figueroa

301.278.9328

rpp@bea.gov

Media:

Jeannine Aversa

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Real Personal Income for States and Metropolitan Areas, 2014
Real personal income across all regions rose by an average of 2.9 percent in 2014. This growth rate
reflects the year-over-year change in nominal personal income across all regions adjusted by the change
in the national personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index. On a nominal basis, personal
income across all regions grew an average of 4.4 percent in 2014. In 2014, the U.S. PCE price index grew
1.4 percent.

Real Personal Income for States and Metropolitan Areas
Growth in real state personal income in 2014 ranged from 4.7 percent in Nevada to 0.4 percent in South
Dakota (table 1). These growth rates reflect the year-over-year change in the state’s nominal personal
income, the change in the national PCE price index, and the change in the state’s regional price parity.
After Nevada, the states with the highest growth rates were Colorado (4.5 percent), Texas (4.2 percent),
Washington (4.0 percent), and Oregon (4.0 percent). After South Dakota, the states with the slowest
rates of growth were Kansas (0.5 percent), West Virginia (0.7 percent), Illinois (1.0 percent), and
Vermont (1.3 percent). States with growth rates close to the national average were Alaska (3.1 percent),
Oklahoma (3.1 percent), Michigan (2.9 percent), New Jersey (2.9 percent), Massachusetts (2.8 percent),
Connecticut (2.8 percent), and Tennessee (2.8 percent).
Growth in real metropolitan area personal income in 2014 ranged from an increase of 8.1 percent in
Odessa, TX to a decline of 3.9 percent in Danville, IL. After Odessa, TX, the metropolitan areas with the
largest growth rates were Hanford-Corcoran, CA (7.0 percent), Midland, TX (7.0 percent), Myrtle BeachConway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC (6.0 percent), Salem, OR (5.8 percent), and Beaumont-Port Arthur,
TX (5.6 percent). After Danville, IL, the metropolitan areas with the largest declines were Beckley, WV
(-3.3 percent), Bloomington, IL (-3.2 percent), Grand Forks, ND-MN (-1.4 percent), Peoria, IL (-1.1
percent), and Yuma, AZ (-1.1 percent).
Regional Price Parities
Regional Price Parities (RPPs) measure the differences in the price levels of goods and services across
states and metropolitan areas for a given year. RPPs are expressed as a percentage of the overall
national price level for each year.
In 2014, the District of Columbia’s RPP (118.1) was higher than that of any state (table 3). The states
with the highest RPPs were Hawaii (116.8), New York (115.7), New Jersey (114.5), and California (112.4).
Mississippi (86.7), Arkansas (87.5), Alabama (87.8), South Dakota (88.0), and Kentucky (88.7) had the
lowest RPPs among the states. States with high (low) RPPs typically have high (low) price levels for rents.
States with RPPs closest to the national average price level were Vermont (101.2), Illinois (100.7), Florida
(99.1), Oregon (99.0), and Rhode Island (98.7).
In 2014, the metropolitan area with the highest RPP was Urban Honolulu, HI (123.5). Metropolitan areas
with RPPs above 120.0 also included San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA (122.9), New York-NewarkJersey City, NY-NJ-PA (122.3), Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA (121.8), San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA
(121.3), and Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT (120.4). The metropolitan area with the lowest RPP was
Beckley, WV (79.7), followed by Rome, GA (80.7), Danville, IL (81.1), Morristown, TN (81.9), and
Jonesboro, AR (82.0).
Additional tables showing estimates of real personal income and regional price parities for state
metropolitan and nonmetropolitan portions, and metropolitan areas can be found at
www.bea.gov/regional/index.htm. Supplemental tables are available upon request.
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Technical Notes on Regional Price Parities and Implicit Regional Price Deflators
Price indexes commonly measure price changes over time. The BEA’s Personal Consumption
Expenditure price index and the BLS’ Consumer Price Index (CPI) are two examples. Spatial price indexes
measure price level differences across regions for one time period. An example of these type of indexes
are purchasing power parities (PPPs), which measure differences in price levels across countries for a
given period, and can be used to convert estimates of per capita GDP into comparable levels in a
common currency. The regional price parities (RPPs) that BEA has developed compare regions within the
United States, but without the need for currency conversion. An implicit regional price deflator (IRPD)
can be derived by combining the RPPs and the U.S. PCE price index.
Regional Price Parities. The RPPs are calculated using price quotes for a wide array of items from the CPI,
which are aggregated into broader expenditure categories (such as food, transportation or education)1.
Data on rents are obtained separately from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS). The
expenditure weights for each category are constructed using CPI expenditure weights, BEA’s Personal
Consumption Expenditures, and ACS rents expenditures2.
The broader categories and the data on rents are combined with the expenditure weights using a
multilateral aggregation method that expresses a region’s price level relative to the U.S3.
For example, if the RPP for area A is 120 and for area B is 90, then on average, prices are 20 percent
higher and 10 percent lower than the U.S. average for A and B, respectively. If the personal income for
area A is $12,000 and for area B is $9,000, then RPP-adjusted incomes are $10,000 ($12,000/1.20) and
$10,000 ($9,000/0.90), respectively. In other words, the purchasing power of the two incomes is
equivalent when adjusted by their respective RPPs.
Implicit Regional Price Deflator. The IRPD is a regional price index derived as the product of two terms:
the regional price parity and the U.S. PCE price index.
The implicit regional price deflator will equal current dollar personal income divided by real personal
income in chained dollars. The growth rate or year-to-year change in the IRPDs is a measure of regional
inflation4.
Detailed information on the methodology used to estimate the RPPs may be found on the regional
methodology page of the BEA website: www.bea.gov/regional/methods.cfm.

1

The BEA Regional Price Parity statistics are based in part on restricted access Consumer Price Index data from the
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The BEA statistics expressed herein are products of BEA and not BLS.
2
To estimate RPPs, CPI price quotes are quality adjusted and pooled over 5 years. The ACS rents are also quality
adjusted and are either annual for states or pooled over 3 years for metropolitan areas. The expenditure weights
are specific for each year.
3
The multilateral system that is used is the Geary additive method. Any region or combination of regions may be
used as the base or reference region without loss of consistency.
4
The growth rate of the implicit regional price deflators will not necessarily equal the region or metro area price
deflators published by the BLS. This is because the CPI deflators are calculated directly while the IRPDs are indirect
estimates, and because of differences in the source data and the methodology.

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Next real personal income release – July 2017 for states, state metropolitan and nonmetropolitan
portions, and metropolitan areas.

Additional Information
Definitions
Personal income is the income received by all
persons from all sources. Personal income is the sum
of net earnings by place of residence, property
income, and personal current transfer receipts.
These are current dollar estimates. Comparisons for
different regions and time periods reflect changes in
both the price and quantity components of regional
personal income.

County data are then aggregated to states and
metropolitan areas.
Personal income at RPPs is current-dollar personal
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income divided by the price parity for a given year
and region. A balancing factor is applied so that the
sum of personal income at RPPs across regions
equals the current dollar sum.

Estimates of personal income in the United States
are derived as the sum of the regional estimates.
These differ from the estimates of personal income
in the national income and product accounts (NIPAs)
because of differences in coverage, in the
methodologies used to prepare the estimates, and in
the timing of the availability of source data.

Real personal income is personal income at RPPs
divided by the national PCE chain-type price index.
The result is real personal income in chained dollars
(using 2009 as the reference year). Using Alaska in
2014 as an example:
(1)
Personal
Income is
divided by the
RPP

Regional price parities (RPPs) are regional price
levels expressed as a percentage of the overall
national price level for a given year. The price level is
determined by the average prices paid by consumers
for the mix of goods and services consumed in each
region.

$39.8 / 1.057 =
$37.6

(2)
Personal Income
at RPPs is
deflated by the
U.S. PCE Price
Index
$37.6 / 1.091 =
$34.5

2014 Alaska
Real Personal
Income

$34.5

Detailed CPI price data are adjusted to obtain
5
average price levels for BLS-defined areas . These
are allocated to counties in combination with direct
price and expenditure data on rents from the ACS.

Note: Dollar amounts are in billions.

5

Implicit Regional Price Deflator (IRPD) is the product
of the RPP times the national PCE price index. It is
equal to personal income divided by real personal
income. See also the Technical Note.

Estimates of real personal income in the United
States are derived as the sum of the regional
estimates divided by the U.S. PCE Price Index.

The CPI represents about 89 percent of the total
U.S. population, including almost all residents of
urban or metropolitan areas. In the northeast
region, rural area prices (exclusive of rents) are
assumed to be the same as those in the small
metropolitan areas of the CPI; in the midwest, south,
and west regions, they are assumed to be the same
as those in the nonmetropolitan urban areas of the
CPI.

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RPP should first be divided by 100.

Table 1. Real Personal Income and Implicit Regional Price Deflators by State, 2013-2014
Personal income
Millions of dollars
2013
United States
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming

14,064,468
174,877
37,791
243,657
108,081
1,849,505
246,448
223,561
41,468
44,533
809,665
375,758
62,437
57,484
599,119
251,599
135,242
128,315
158,238
188,965
52,566
312,054
379,381
387,978
257,058
100,626
243,592
39,462
86,447
109,490
66,839
491,865
73,571
1,055,803
372,031
39,358
471,547
161,686
154,869
588,296
48,607
169,269
37,855
255,422
1,161,134
106,073
28,108
404,886
331,031
65,178
245,438
30,206

2014
14,683,147
181,909
39,793
255,093
112,076
1,939,528
261,735
233,293
43,392
46,016
850,178
393,594
65,348
60,041
613,672
261,092
139,625
130,364
165,044
195,426
54,195
323,778
396,206
403,726
267,389
103,091
252,482
40,844
89,479
115,672
70,020
515,020
77,356
1,098,103
389,513
41,265
489,695
169,228
163,653
609,679
51,027
177,242
38,631
264,965
1,231,085
110,842
29,090
419,185
350,322
66,857
254,405
31,885

Maximum
1,849,505
1,939,528
Minimum
28,108
29,090
Range
1,821,398
1,910,438
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

Real personal income
Millions of chained (2009) dollars
Percent
growth

2013

2014

Implicit regional price deflators

Percent
growth

4.4
4.0
5.3
4.7
3.7
4.9
6.2
4.4
4.6
3.3
5.0
4.7
4.7
4.4
2.4
3.8
3.2
1.6
4.3
3.4
3.1
3.8
4.4
4.1
4.0
2.4
3.6
3.5
3.5
5.6
4.8
4.7
5.1
4.0
4.7
4.8
3.8
4.7
5.7
3.6
5.0
4.7
2.0
3.7
6.0
4.5
3.5
3.5
5.8
2.6
3.7
5.6

13,074,510
185,465
33,500
234,753
114,713
1,527,644
225,442
191,439
38,224
35,231
761,000
380,077
49,407
57,701
553,566
256,028
139,133
131,208
165,170
192,829
49,894
263,303
330,207
382,519
245,194
107,630
252,926
39,016
88,795
103,727
58,959
400,949
72,091
851,321
377,386
39,996
490,995
167,240
145,945
555,030
45,969
174,068
40,124
262,264
1,121,730
101,508
26,049
366,411
297,835
68,520
244,961
29,419

13,457,845
190,171
34,542
242,833
117,558
1,583,118
235,538
196,749
39,071
35,765
786,786
392,474
51,354
58,997
559,163
262,222
141,927
131,904
170,729
196,248
51,230
269,226
339,496
393,741
251,362
109,092
259,037
39,803
90,608
108,602
61,050
412,540
74,698
871,141
389,649
41,388
503,038
172,374
151,720
569,724
47,425
179,763
40,300
269,504
1,168,858
104,881
26,378
374,847
309,793
69,014
250,000
30,411

2.9
2.5
3.1
3.4
2.5
3.6
4.5
2.8
2.2
1.5
3.4
3.3
3.9
2.2
1.0
2.4
2.0
0.5
3.4
1.8
2.7
2.2
2.8
2.9
2.5
1.4
2.4
2.0
2.0
4.7
3.5
2.9
3.6
2.3
3.2
3.5
2.5
3.1
4.0
2.6
3.2
3.3
0.4
2.8
4.2
3.3
1.3
2.3
4.0
0.7
2.1
3.4

6.2
1.6
4.6

1,527,644
26,049
1,501,595

1,583,118
26,378
1,556,740

4.7
0.4
4.3

2013
107.6
94.3
112.8
103.8
94.2
121.1
109.3
116.8
108.5
126.4
106.4
98.9
126.4
99.6
108.2
98.3
97.2
97.8
95.8
98.0
105.4
118.5
114.9
101.4
104.8
93.5
96.3
101.1
97.4
105.6
113.4
122.7
102.1
124.0
98.6
98.4
96.0
96.7
106.1
106.0
105.7
97.2
94.3
97.4
103.5
104.5
107.9
110.5
111.1
95.1
100.2
102.7
126.4
93.5
32.9

2014
109.1
95.7
115.2
105.0
95.3
122.5
111.1
118.6
111.1
128.7
108.1
100.3
127.3
101.8
109.7
99.6
98.4
98.8
96.7
99.6
105.8
120.3
116.7
102.5
106.4
94.5
97.5
102.6
98.8
106.5
114.7
124.8
103.6
126.1
100.0
99.7
97.3
98.2
107.9
107.0
107.6
98.6
95.9
98.3
105.3
105.7
110.3
111.8
113.1
96.9
101.8
104.8
128.7
94.5
34.2

Percent
growth
1.4
1.4
2.1
1.2
1.2
1.2
1.7
1.5
2.4
1.8
1.6
1.4
0.7
2.2
1.4
1.3
1.2
1.1
0.9
1.6
0.4
1.5
1.6
1.1
1.5
1.1
1.2
1.5
1.4
0.9
1.2
1.8
1.5
1.6
1.4
1.3
1.4
1.5
1.6
1.0
1.8
1.4
1.6
0.9
1.7
1.1
2.2
1.2
1.7
1.8
1.6
2.1
2.4
0.4
2.0

Table 2. Real Per Capita Personal Income by State, 2013-2014
Per capita personal income
Real per capita personal income
Dollars
Chained (2009) dollars
2013

2014

Percent
growth

2013

United States
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming

44,438
36,176
51,259
36,723
36,529
48,125
46,746
62,112
44,819
68,606
41,309
37,596
44,314
35,641
46,477
38,291
43,735
44,311
35,967
40,819
39,562
52,545
56,549
39,197
47,410
33,629
40,297
38,884
46,254
39,223
50,535
55,194
35,254
53,606
37,774
54,373
40,749
41,962
39,426
46,028
46,145
35,472
44,772
39,312
43,807
36,542
44,839
48,956
47,468
35,163
42,737
51,791

46,049
37,512
54,012
37,895
37,782
49,985
48,869
64,864
46,378
69,838
42,737
38,980
46,034
36,734
47,643
39,578
44,937
44,891
37,396
42,030
40,745
54,176
58,737
40,740
48,998
34,431
41,639
39,903
47,557
40,742
52,773
57,620
37,091
55,611
39,171
55,802
42,236
43,637
41,220
47,679
48,359
36,677
45,279
40,457
45,669
37,664
46,428
50,345
49,610
36,132
44,186
54,584

3.6
3.7
5.4
3.2
3.4
3.9
4.5
4.4
3.5
1.8
3.5
3.7
3.9
3.1
2.5
3.4
2.7
1.3
4.0
3.0
3.0
3.1
3.9
3.9
3.3
2.4
3.3
2.6
2.8
3.9
4.4
4.4
5.2
3.7
3.7
2.6
3.7
4.0
4.5
3.6
4.8
3.4
1.1
2.9
4.2
3.1
3.5
2.8
4.5
2.8
3.4
5.4

41,310
38,367
45,438
35,381
38,771
39,750
42,761
53,187
41,312
54,275
38,826
38,028
35,065
35,776
42,944
38,965
44,993
45,310
37,542
41,654
37,551
44,336
49,219
38,645
45,222
35,970
41,841
38,445
47,510
37,158
44,578
44,992
34,545
43,224
38,318
55,254
42,430
43,404
37,154
43,425
43,641
36,477
47,456
40,365
42,320
34,969
41,555
44,304
42,708
36,966
42,654
50,442

Maximum
Minimum
Range

68,606
33,629
34,976

69,838
34,431
35,407

5.4
1.1
4.3

55,254
34,545
20,710

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

2014
42,207
39,216
46,886
36,074
39,630
40,799
43,978
54,703
41,760
54,280
39,550
38,869
36,176
36,096
43,411
39,750
45,678
45,421
38,684
42,207
38,516
45,048
50,330
39,732
46,061
36,436
42,720
38,886
48,157
38,252
46,013
46,155
35,817
44,117
39,184
55,969
43,387
44,449
38,214
44,554
44,946
37,199
47,235
41,150
43,360
35,639
42,099
45,020
43,871
37,298
43,421
52,059
55,969
35,639
20,330

Percent
growth
2.2
2.2
3.2
2.0
2.2
2.6
2.8
2.9
1.1
0.0
1.9
2.2
3.2
0.9
1.1
2.0
1.5
0.2
3.0
1.3
2.6
1.6
2.3
2.8
1.9
1.3
2.1
1.1
1.4
2.9
3.2
2.6
3.7
2.1
2.3
1.3
2.3
2.4
2.9
2.6
3.0
2.0
-0.5
1.9
2.5
1.9
1.3
1.6
2.7
0.9
1.8
3.2
3.7
-0.5
4.1

Table 3. Regional Price Parities by State, 2014
Regional price parities
Services
All items
Goods
Rents
Other
Alabama
87.8
96.3
63.6
93.8
Alaska
105.7
101.0
144.1
97.1
Arizona
96.4
98.5
91.1
97.3
Arkansas
87.5
95.1
62.5
93.5
California
112.4
103.0
147.7
105.6
Colorado
102.0
100.4
111.0
99.0
Connecticut
108.8
104.3
116.9
109.3
Delaware
101.9
100.4
101.6
103.6
District of Columbia
118.1
107.6
162.5
109.4
Florida
99.1
98.3
104.9
96.7
Georgia
92.0
96.8
78.7
94.7
Hawaii
116.8
108.9
158.4
103.6
Idaho
93.4
98.1
79.2
96.2
Illinois
100.7
101.2
99.6
100.7
Indiana
91.4
97.3
75.4
94.1
Iowa
90.3
95.1
74.9
91.6
Kansas
90.7
95.7
75.5
92.8
Kentucky
88.7
94.6
67.8
93.4
Louisiana
91.4
96.5
77.5
93.8
Maine
97.1
98.1
93.0
97.9
Maryland
110.3
104.0
126.6
107.5
Massachusetts
107.1
100.3
123.5
106.7
Michigan
94.1
97.9
82.1
96.8
Minnesota
97.6
100.1
95.7
95.7
Mississippi
86.7
94.4
63.2
93.4
Missouri
89.4
95.0
74.3
91.6
Montana
94.2
98.4
83.6
94.4
Nebraska
90.6
95.6
75.8
92.1
Nevada
97.7
97.2
94.6
100.4
New Hampshire
105.2
99.7
119.9
104.3
New Jersey
114.5
102.3
136.7
115.4
New Mexico
95.0
97.6
83.6
98.8
New York
115.7
108.2
136.6
112.5
North Carolina
91.7
96.3
79.5
93.8
North Dakota
91.5
94.9
81.9
91.4
Ohio
89.3
95.6
72.9
91.7
Oklahoma
90.1
95.7
71.2
93.7
Oregon
99.0
98.8
100.7
98.3
Pennsylvania
98.2
99.6
89.0
101.7
Rhode Island
98.7
98.0
102.0
97.6
South Carolina
90.5
96.6
75.4
93.8
South Dakota
88.0
94.6
67.1
91.2
Tennessee
90.2
96.2
73.6
93.8
Texas
96.6
97.0
91.1
99.2
Utah
97.0
97.5
91.6
99.4
Vermont
101.2
98.0
118.4
97.5
Virginia
102.6
100.2
112.1
100.4
Washington
103.8
103.3
112.3
100.3
West Virginia
88.9
95.1
64.5
94.8
Wisconsin
93.4
95.8
86.6
93.8
Wyoming
96.2
98.3
93.3
95.0
All States
100.0
Maximum
118.1
Minimum
86.7
Range
31.3
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

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115.4
91.2
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