September 26, 2025

Split Personal Income and Outlays, October 2025 and Gross Domestic Product by State and Personal Income by State, 2nd quarter 2025 and Personal Consumption Expenditures by State, 2024

Personal Income and Outlays, August 2025

Personal income increased $95.7 billion (0.4 percent at a monthly rate) in August, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Disposable personal income (DPI)—personal income less personal current taxes—increased $86.1 billion (0.4 percent) and personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $129.2 billion (0.6 percent). Personal outlays—the sum of PCE, personal interest payments, and personal current transfer payments—increased $132.9 billion in August. Personal saving was $1.06 trillion in August and the personal saving rate—personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income—was 4.6 percent.

Gross Domestic Product by State and Personal Income by State, 2nd Quarter 2025 and Personal Consumption Expenditures by State, 2024

Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased in 48 states in the second quarter of 2025. State-level changes ranged from a 7.3 percent increase in North Dakota to a 1.1 percent decline in Arkansas.

Personal income increased in all 50 states and the District of Columbia in the second quarter of 2025. State-level changes ranged from a 10.4 percent increase in Kansas to a 0.9 percent increase in Arkansas.

Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased in all 50 states and the District of Columbia in 2024. State-level changes in PCE ranged from a 7.0 percent increase in Florida to a 4.3 percent increase in Mississippi.

Principal Federal Economic Indicators

Gross Domestic Product
Q2 2025 (3rd)
+3.8%
Personal Income
August 2025
+0.4%
International Trade in Goods and Services
July 2025
-$78.3 B
International Transactions
Q2 2025
-$251.3 B

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| The BEA Wire

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| News Release

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| The BEA Wire

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| The BEA Wire

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New Foreign Direct Investment in the United States, 2014 and 2015

| The BEA Wire

Expenditures by foreign direct investors to acquire, establish, or expand U.S. businesses totaled $420.7 billion in 2015, an increase of 68 percent from 2014, when expenditures were $250.6 billion; according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) in statistics released today.

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| News Release

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Real Personal Income for States, 2014

| The BEA Wire

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

| News Release

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