United States Personal Income 1959-2017 | Data | Chart | Calendar

Personal income in the United States increased by 0.4 percent month-over-month in May 2017, following a downwardly revised 0.3 percent gain in April and beating market expectations of 0.3 percent. The monthly advance was mainly due to increases in personal dividend income (4.8 percent from 0.4 percent in April), compensation of employees (0.1 percent from 0.5 percent), and nonfarm proprietors' income (0.6 percent from -0.2 percent). Meanwhile, contributions for government social insurance, a subtraction in the calculation of personal income, showed no growth after increasing by 0.4 percent in April. Personal Income in the United States averaged 0.54 percent from 1959 until 2017, reaching an all time high of 4.60 percent in May of 2008 and a record low of -5.20 percent in January of 2013.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	Forecast
2017-05-01	12:30 PM	Mar	0.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%
2017-05-30	12:30 PM	Apr	0.4%	0.2%	0.4%	0.3%
2017-06-30	12:30 PM	May	0.4%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%
2017-08-01	12:30 PM	Jun		0.4%		0.31%
2017-08-31	12:30 PM	Jul				0.31%
2017-09-29	12:30 PM	Aug				0.32%

United States Consumer	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Consumer Confidence	93.10	95.10	111.40	51.70		[+]
Retail Sales MoM	-0.20	-0.10	6.70	-3.70	percent	[+]
Retail Sales YoY	2.80	3.80	11.20	-11.50	percent	[+]
Retail Sales Ex Autos	-0.20	-0.30	2.70	-3.80	percent	[+]
Consumer Spending	11701.30	11669.80	11701.30	1320.40	USD Billion	[+]
Disposable Personal Income	14490.10	14432.50	14490.10	351.90	USD Billion	[+]
Personal Spending	0.10	0.40	2.80	-2.00	percent	[+]
Personal Income	0.40	0.30	4.60	-5.20	percent	[+]
Personal Savings	5.50	5.30	17.00	1.90	percent	[+]
Consumer Credit	18.40	12.90	118.60	-17.80	USD Billion	[+]
Private Sector Credit	9220.64	9177.64	9220.64	39.04	USD Billion	[+]
Bank Lending Rate	4.13	4.00	20.50	2.00	percent	[+]
Economic Optimism Index	50.20	51.30	62.90	35.80		[+]
Redbook Index	2.40	2.70	7.60	-5.80	percent	[+]
Gasoline Prices	0.60	0.63	0.99	0.32	USD/Liter	[+]
Households Debt To Gdp	79.50	79.40	95.50	23.40	percent of GDP	[+]
Chain Store Sales	4254.00	4223.00	15875.00	3129.00	USD Million	[+]

United States Personal Income Notes

Personal Income refers to the income that persons receive in return for their provision of labor, land, and capital used in current production, plus current transfer receipts less contributions for government social insurance. This page provides the latest reported value for - United States Personal Income - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. United States Personal Income - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on July of 2017.