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Personal Income increased 0.4%, Spending increased 0.2%
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Personal income increased $67.3 billion (0.4 percent) in February according to estimates released today by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Disposable personal income (DPI) increased $53.9 billion (0.4 percent) and personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $27.7 billion (0.2 percent).
Real DPI increased 0.2 percent in February and Real PCE increased less than 0.1 percent. The PCE price index increased 0.2 percent. Excluding food and energy, the PCE price index increased 0.2 percent.
The increase in personal income in February primarily reflected increases in wages and salaries and nonfarm proprietors’ income.
The $1.4 billion increase in real PCE in February reflected an increase of $1.0 billion in spending for goods and a $0.5 billion increase in spending for services (table 7). Within goods, recreational goods and vehicles was the leading contributor to the increase. Within services, financial services and insurance was the leading contributor to the increase. Detailed information on monthly real PCE spending can be found in Table 2.3.6U.
Personal outlays increased $27.8 billion in February (table 3). Personal saving was $497.4 billion in February and the personal saving rate, personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income, was 3.4 percent.
2017 Personal Income and Outlays
Personal income (table 6) increased 3.1 percent in 2017 (that is, from the 2016 annual level to the 2017 annual level), compared with an increase of 2.4 percent in 2016. DPI increased 2.9 percent in 2017 compared with an increase of 2.6 percent in 2016. In 2017, PCE increased 4.5 percent, compared with an increase of 4.0 percent in 2016.
Real DPI increased 1.2 percent in 2017, compared with an increase of 1.4 percent in 2016. Real PCE increased 2.8 percent, compared with an increase of 2.7 percent in 2016.
Posted: March 29, 2018 Thursday 08:30 AM