EMBARGOED UNTIL RELEASE AT 8:30 A.M. EDT, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2016 BEA 16-25 Technical: Kurt Kunze (301) 278-9087 (Personal Income) piniwd@bea.gov Kyle Brown (301) 278-9086 (Personal Consumption Expenditures) pce@bea.gov Media: Jeannine Aversa (301) 278-9003 PERSONAL INCOME AND OUTLAYS: APRIL 2016 Personal income increased $69.8 billion, or 0.4 percent, and disposable personal income (DPI) increased $63.5 billion, or 0.5 percent, in April, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $119.2 billion, or 1.0 percent. In March, personal income increased $56.7 billion, or 0.4 percent, DPI increased $49.6 billion, or 0.4 percent, and PCE increased $3.7 billion, or less than 0.1 percent, based on revised estimates. Real DPI increased 0.2 percent in April, compared with an increase of 0.3 percent in March. Real PCE increased 0.6 percent, in contrast to a decrease of less than 0.1 percent. 2015 2016 Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. (Percent change from preceding month) Personal income, current dollars 0.3 0.4 0.1 0.4 0.4 Disposable personal income: Current dollars 0.3 0.6 0.1 0.4 0.5 Chained (2009) dollars 0.4 0.4 0.2 0.3 0.2 Personal consumption expenditures: Current dollars 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.0 1.0 Chained (2009) dollars 0.2 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.6 BOX.______________ This news release presents revised estimates of wages and salaries, personal taxes, and contributions for government social insurance for October through December 2015 (fourth quarter).  These estimates reflect the incorporation of the most recently available fourth-quarter wage and salary tabulations from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. __________________ FOOTNOTE._________ Monthly estimates are expressed at seasonally adjusted annual rates, unless otherwise specified. Month-to-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. __________________ Compensation Wages and salaries increased $38.6 billion in April, compared with an increase of $30.7 billion in March. Private wages and salaries increased $37.2 billion, compared with an increase of $27.6 billion. Government wages and salaries increased $1.4 billion, compared with an increase of $3.1 billion. Supplements to wages and salaries increased $5.9 billion in April, compared with an increase of $5.5 billion in March. Other personal income Proprietors' income increased $7.8 billion in April, in contrast to a decrease of $1.0 billion in March. Farm proprietors' income increased $0.3 billion, in contrast to a decrease of $1.5 billion. Nonfarm proprietors' income increased $7.5 billion, compared with an increase of $0.6 billion. Rental income of persons increased $2.5 billion in April, compared with an increase of $5.5 billion in March. Personal income receipts on assets (personal interest income plus personal dividend income) increased $7.2 billion, compared with an increase of $13.1 billion. Personal current transfer receipts increased $12.5 billion in April, compared with an increase of $6.3 billion in March. Within current transfer receipts, government social benefit payments to persons for April increased $12.3 billion, primarily reflecting an upturn in Social Security payments. Contributions for government social insurance -- a subtraction in calculating personal income -- increased $4.7 billion in April, compared with an increase of $3.4 billion in March. Personal current taxes and disposable personal income Personal current taxes increased $6.3 billion in April, compared with an increase of $7.1 billion in March. Disposable personal income (DPI) -- personal income less personal current taxes -- increased $63.5 billion, or 0.5 percent, compared with an increase of $49.6 billion, or 0.4 percent. Personal outlays and personal saving Personal outlays -- PCE, personal interest payments, and personal current transfer payments -- increased $121.7 billion in April, compared with an increase of $1.8 billion in March. PCE increased $119.2 billion, compared with an increase of $3.7 billion. Personal saving -- DPI less personal outlays -- was $751.1 billion in April, compared with $809.4 billion in March. The personal saving rate -- personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income -- was 5.4 percent, compared with 5.9 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. Real DPI, real PCE, and price index Real DPI -- DPI adjusted to remove price changes -- increased 0.2 percent in April, compared with an increase of 0.3 percent in March. Real PCE -- PCE adjusted to remove price changes -- increased 0.6 percent in April, in contrast to a decrease of less than 0.1 percent in March. Purchases of durable goods increased 2.2 percent, compared with an increase of 0.2 percent. Purchases of motor vehicles and parts accounted for most of the increase in April. Purchases of nondurable goods increased 0.7 percent in April, compared with an increase of 0.4 percent in March. Purchases of services increased 0.4 percent, in contrast to a decrease of 0.2 percent. The price index for PCE increased 0.3 percent in April, compared with an increase of 0.1 percent in March. The PCE price index, excluding food and energy, increased 0.2 percent, compared with an increase of 0.1 percent. The April PCE price index increased 1.1 percent from April a year ago.  The April PCE price index, excluding food and energy, increased 1.6 percent from April a year ago. Revisions Estimates have been revised for October through March. Changes in personal income, in current-dollar and chained (2009) dollar DPI, and in current-dollar and chained (2009) dollar PCE for February and for March -- revised and as published in last month's release -- are shown below. Estimates of wages and salaries have been revised for October through March. The revision to fourth-quarter wages and salaries reflected the incorporation of the most recently available Bureau of Labor Statistics tabulations of fourth-quarter wages and salaries from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. Revised estimates for January, February, and March reflect extrapolations from the revised fourth-quarter level of wages. In addition, revisions to February and March reflect revised BLS employment, hours, and earnings data. Change from preceding month February March Previous Revised Previous Revised Previous Revised Previous Revised (Billions of dollars) (Percent) (Billions of dollars) (Percent) Personal income: Current dollars 12.0 15.3 0.1 0.1 57.4 56.7 0.4 0.4 Disposable personal income: Current dollars 11.4 14.1 0.1 0.1 50.4 49.6 0.4 0.4 Chained (2009) dollars 22.6 23.4 0.2 0.2 39.2 37.6 0.3 0.3 Personal consumption expenditures: Current dollars 21.4 30.8 0.2 0.2 12.8 3.7 0.1 0.0 Chained (2009) dollars 30.6 37.7 0.3 0.3 5.5 -3.5 0.0 0.0 BOX._____________________ Upcoming Annual Revision of the National Income and Product Accounts As part of the annual revision of the national income and product accounts (NIPAs), revised estimates of personal income and outlays will be released in conjunction with preliminary estimates for June 2016 on August 2, 2016. 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BEA's news release schedule is available at www.bea.gov/newsreleases/news_release_sort_national.htm * * * Next release – June 29, 2016 at 8:30 A.M. EDT Personal Income and Outlays for May Table 1. Personal Income and Its Disposition (Months) [Billions of dollars] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------Seasonally adjusted at annual rates------------------------- -------------------2015------------------- -------------------2016------------------- Sept. Oct.\r\ Nov.\r\ Dec.\r\ Jan.\r\ Feb.\r\ March\r\ April\p\ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Personal income........................... 15,472.9 15,547.1 15,605.1 15,654.2 15,716.9 15,732.2 15,788.9 15,858.7 Compensation of employees............... 9,718.5 9,799.0 9,866.3 9,895.9 9,948.2 9,951.6 9,987.9 10,032.4 Wages and salaries.................... 7,875.4 7,947.7 8,007.2 8,031.5 8,077.6 8,077.7 8,108.4 8,147.0 Private industries.................. 6,599.7 6,670.6 6,727.9 6,749.8 6,790.2 6,787.0 6,814.6 6,851.8 Goods-producing industries........ 1,307.3 1,324.2 1,346.3 1,337.9 1,347.5 1,344.5 1,347.3 1,357.4 Manufacturing................... 801.2 813.4 830.4 821.7 829.1 827.3 827.3 836.0 Services-producing industries..... 5,292.4 5,346.4 5,381.6 5,411.9 5,442.7 5,442.5 5,467.3 5,494.4 Trade, transportation, and utilities...................... 1,246.6 1,256.2 1,263.2 1,268.4 1,270.8 1,271.6 1,277.1 1,281.6 Other services-producing industries..................... 4,045.8 4,090.2 4,118.5 4,143.5 4,172.0 4,170.9 4,190.2 4,212.9 Government.......................... 1,275.7 1,277.0 1,279.2 1,281.7 1,287.4 1,290.7 1,293.8 1,295.2 Supplements to wages and salaries..... 1,843.1 1,851.3 1,859.1 1,864.4 1,870.6 1,873.9 1,879.4 1,885.4 Employer contributions for employee pension and insurance funds\1\..... 1,273.9 1,277.6 1,281.5 1,285.7 1,289.5 1,293.5 1,297.5 1,301.2 Employer contributions for government social insurance........ 569.2 573.7 577.6 578.8 581.0 580.4 581.9 584.1 Proprietors' income with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments............................ 1,404.2 1,407.0 1,401.0 1,412.3 1,413.9 1,411.8 1,410.8 1,418.7 Farm.................................. 68.0 62.5 57.1 51.6 50.1 48.5 47.0 47.3 Nonfarm............................... 1,336.2 1,344.5 1,343.9 1,360.6 1,363.9 1,363.3 1,363.9 1,371.4 Rental income of persons with capital consumption adjustment................. 665.8 668.4 671.6 675.3 679.7 684.9 690.4 692.9 Personal income receipts on assets...... 2,209.1 2,202.3 2,196.5 2,187.0 2,193.8 2,190.0 2,203.1 2,210.3 Personal interest income.............. 1,337.0 1,327.7 1,318.3 1,309.0 1,315.2 1,321.4 1,327.5 1,329.0 Personal dividend income.............. 872.1 874.6 878.2 878.0 878.6 868.6 875.5 881.3 Personal current transfer receipts...... 2,683.6 2,687.8 2,694.8 2,711.5 2,718.3 2,730.2 2,736.6 2,749.0 Government social benefits to persons.............................. 2,639.9 2,644.0 2,650.8 2,667.3 2,674.0 2,685.7 2,691.8 2,704.1 Social security\2\.................. 875.4 877.6 878.2 889.3 884.8 887.1 886.9 895.0 Medicare\3\......................... 625.2 628.4 631.5 634.5 637.8 640.9 643.9 646.7 Medicaid............................ 544.6 544.4 545.3 549.2 549.6 550.8 551.3 553.4 Unemployment insurance.............. 32.6 31.7 32.2 32.6 32.7 32.6 32.0 31.2 Veterans' benefits.................. 95.5 96.2 98.4 98.7 98.0 98.5 99.3 102.4 Other............................... 466.7 465.6 465.4 463.0 471.1 475.8 478.4 475.4 Other current transfer receipts, from business (net)....................... 43.6 43.8 44.0 44.2 44.3 44.5 44.7 44.9 Less: Contributions for government social insurance, domestic............. 1,208.2 1,217.4 1,225.0 1,227.8 1,237.0 1,236.4 1,239.8 1,244.6 Less: Personal current taxes.............. 1,958.8 1,980.5 1,996.5 2,004.1 1,988.7 1,989.8 1,996.9 2,003.2 Equals: Disposable personal income........ 13,514.1 13,566.5 13,608.6 13,650.1 13,728.2 13,742.4 13,792.0 13,855.4 Less: Personal outlays.................... 12,831.9 12,854.1 12,907.5 12,929.8 12,951.6 12,980.7 12,982.5 13,104.3 Personal consumption expenditures....... 12,386.7 12,405.5 12,455.0 12,473.4 12,492.0 12,522.9 12,526.5 12,645.8 Goods................................. 4,012.7 4,005.3 4,027.5 4,001.7 3,982.5 3,965.0 3,972.8 4,041.5 Durable goods....................... 1,345.3 1,339.0 1,353.9 1,347.8 1,336.2 1,341.4 1,339.4 1,370.0 Nondurable goods.................... 2,667.4 2,666.3 2,673.6 2,653.9 2,646.3 2,623.6 2,633.4 2,671.4 Services.............................. 8,374.0 8,400.2 8,427.5 8,471.7 8,509.5 8,557.9 8,553.7 8,604.3 Personal interest payments\4\........... 267.1 270.6 274.1 277.6 275.8 274.0 272.1 274.5 Personal current transfer payments...... 178.0 178.0 178.3 178.7 183.7 183.9 183.9 184.0 To government......................... 98.0 98.3 98.6 99.0 103.7 103.8 103.8 104.0 To the rest of the world (net)........ 80.0 79.7 79.7 79.7 80.1 80.1 80.1 80.1 Equals: Personal saving................... 682.2 712.5 701.2 720.3 776.7 761.7 809.4 751.1 Personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income............. 5.0 5.3 5.2 5.3 5.7 5.5 5.9 5.4 Addenda: Personal income excluding current transfer receipts, billions of chained (2009) dollars\5\...................... 11,659.7 11,714.7 11,746.6 11,785.8 11,821.0 11,834.0 11,872.7 11,888.4 Disposable personal income: Total, billions of chained (2009) dollars\5\........................... 12,320.4 12,359.0 12,381.9 12,430.0 12,484.5 12,507.9 12,545.5 12,564.7 Per capita: Current dollars..................... 41,936 42,069 42,172 42,274 42,492 42,515 42,645 42,816 Chained (2009) dollars.............. 38,232 38,324 38,370 38,495 38,643 38,696 38,791 38,828 Population (midperiod, thousands)\6\.... 322,255 322,484 322,697 322,897 323,076 323,238 323,413 323,601 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- p Preliminary r Revised. Revisions include changes to series affected by the incorporation of revised wage and salary estimates for the fourth 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] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2014 2015\r\ --------------Seasonally adjusted at annual rates-------------- 2014 -------------------2015------------------- 2016 IV I II III IV\r\ I\r\ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Personal income........................... 14,694.2 15,350.7 14,955.7 15,079.8 15,277.0 15,443.7 15,602.1 15,746.0 Compensation of employees............... 9,248.9 9,666.6 9,424.9 9,487.9 9,615.2 9,709.5 9,853.7 9,962.6 Wages and salaries.................... 7,477.8 7,834.9 7,632.6 7,682.4 7,791.8 7,870.0 7,995.4 8,087.9 Private industries.................. 6,240.5 6,566.1 6,384.4 6,425.9 6,526.7 6,595.8 6,716.1 6,797.3 Goods-producing industries........ 1,260.9 1,309.7 1,292.9 1,288.0 1,303.2 1,311.5 1,336.2 1,346.5 Manufacturing................... 780.9 804.9 796.5 792.1 801.7 804.1 821.8 827.9 Services-producing industries..... 4,979.7 5,256.4 5,091.5 5,138.0 5,223.5 5,284.2 5,380.0 5,450.8 Trade, transportation, and utilities...................... 1,175.5 1,236.5 1,203.3 1,210.9 1,229.1 1,243.5 1,262.6 1,273.1 Other services-producing industries..................... 3,804.2 4,019.9 3,888.2 3,927.0 3,994.4 4,040.8 4,117.4 4,177.7 Government.......................... 1,237.2 1,268.8 1,248.2 1,256.5 1,265.0 1,274.2 1,279.3 1,290.7 Supplements to wages and salaries..... 1,771.2 1,831.7 1,792.3 1,805.5 1,823.4 1,839.5 1,858.3 1,874.6 Employer contributions for employee pension and insurance funds\1\..... 1,224.0 1,264.3 1,236.3 1,246.8 1,258.3 1,270.3 1,281.6 1,293.5 Employer contributions for government social insurance........ 547.2 567.4 556.0 558.7 565.0 569.2 576.7 581.1 Proprietors' income with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments............................ 1,346.7 1,388.3 1,377.9 1,369.4 1,377.0 1,400.1 1,406.7 1,412.2 Farm.................................. 78.1 59.9 74.8 60.5 56.9 65.2 57.1 48.5 Nonfarm............................... 1,268.6 1,328.4 1,303.0 1,308.9 1,320.1 1,334.9 1,349.7 1,363.7 Rental income of persons with capital consumption adjustment................. 610.8 656.6 628.4 637.0 654.1 663.6 671.7 685.0 Personal income receipts on assets...... 2,117.5 2,180.5 2,130.6 2,145.5 2,178.3 2,202.8 2,195.3 2,195.6 Personal interest income.............. 1,302.0 1,312.3 1,289.8 1,282.6 1,313.4 1,335.0 1,318.3 1,321.4 Personal dividend income.............. 815.5 868.2 840.8 863.0 864.9 867.8 876.9 874.3 Personal current transfer receipts...... 2,529.2 2,662.7 2,571.0 2,625.8 2,651.3 2,675.7 2,698.0 2,728.4 Government social benefits to persons.............................. 2,487.2 2,619.5 2,528.9 2,583.4 2,608.4 2,632.2 2,654.0 2,683.9 Social security\2\.................. 834.6 871.8 843.8 861.6 869.4 874.5 881.7 886.3 Medicare\3\......................... 597.8 619.8 605.3 609.8 615.3 622.5 631.4 640.9 Medicaid............................ 487.4 534.9 507.1 523.9 529.0 540.4 546.3 550.6 Unemployment insurance.............. 35.8 33.3 32.9 35.0 33.1 32.9 32.2 32.4 Veterans' benefits.................. 83.7 94.4 86.7 90.7 94.1 95.1 97.8 98.6 Other............................... 447.9 465.3 453.3 462.2 467.5 466.9 464.7 475.1 Other current transfer receipts, from business (net)....................... 42.0 43.2 42.1 42.4 42.9 43.4 44.0 44.5 Less: Contributions for government social insurance, domestic............. 1,159.0 1,204.0 1,177.2 1,185.8 1,198.9 1,207.9 1,223.4 1,237.7 Less: Personal current taxes.............. 1,780.2 1,947.4 1,838.8 1,900.1 1,938.7 1,957.3 1,993.7 1,991.8 Equals: Disposable personal income........ 12,913.9 13,403.2 13,116.8 13,179.8 13,338.3 13,486.4 13,608.4 13,754.2 Less: Personal outlays.................... 12,293.7 12,717.5 12,502.5 12,492.2 12,674.5 12,806.2 12,897.1 12,971.6 Personal consumption expenditures....... 11,865.9 12,271.9 12,061.4 12,055.5 12,228.4 12,359.0 12,444.7 12,513.8 Goods................................. 3,948.4 3,978.8 3,980.1 3,901.5 3,978.1 4,024.1 4,011.5 3,973.5 Durable goods....................... 1,280.2 1,328.7 1,303.5 1,301.8 1,326.4 1,339.6 1,346.9 1,339.0 Nondurable goods.................... 2,668.2 2,650.1 2,676.6 2,599.7 2,651.8 2,684.4 2,664.6 2,634.5 Services.............................. 7,917.5 8,293.1 8,081.3 8,153.9 8,250.2 8,334.9 8,433.1 8,540.3 Personal interest payments\4\........... 254.2 268.5 263.1 261.3 269.3 269.4 274.1 274.0 Personal current transfer payments...... 173.6 177.1 178.0 175.5 176.8 177.8 178.3 183.8 To government......................... 95.3 97.7 95.9 97.0 97.2 97.8 98.7 103.8 To the rest of the world (net)........ 78.3 79.4 82.2 78.5 79.6 80.0 79.7 80.1 Equals: Personal saving................... 620.2 685.7 614.3 687.6 663.9 680.2 711.3 782.6 Personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income............. 4.8 5.1 4.7 5.2 5.0 5.0 5.2 5.7 Addenda: Personal income excluding current transfer receipts, billions of chained (2009) dollars\5\...................... 11,149.8 11,593.5 11,329.0 11,447.6 11,542.2 11,635.1 11,749.0 11,842.6 Disposable personal income: Total, billions of chained (2009) dollars\5\........................... 11,836.3 12,247.1 11,998.7 12,114.7 12,193.6 12,289.8 12,390.3 12,512.7 Per capita: Current dollars..................... 40,453 41,663 40,962 41,088 41,509 41,881 42,171 42,551 Chained (2009) dollars.............. 37,077 38,069 37,470 37,767 37,947 38,165 38,397 38,710 Population (midperiod, thousands)\6\.... 319,233 321,704 320,222 320,771 321,337 322,015 322,693 323,242 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- r Revised. Revisions include changes to series affected by the incorporation of revised wage and salary estimates for the fourth 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------------------------- -------------------2015------------------- -------------------2016------------------- Sept. Oct.\r\ Nov.\r\ Dec.\r\ Jan.\r\ Feb.\r\ March\r\ April\p\ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Personal income........................... 21.5 74.2 58.1 49.0 62.8 15.3 56.7 69.8 Compensation of employees............... -1.4 80.5 67.3 29.7 52.3 3.4 36.2 44.5 Wages and salaries.................... -4.1 72.3 59.5 24.3 46.1 0.1 30.7 38.6 Private industries.................. -4.9 71.0 57.3 21.9 40.4 -3.2 27.6 37.2 Goods-producing industries........ -6.9 17.0 22.1 -8.3 9.6 -3.0 2.8 10.0 Manufacturing................... -4.7 12.2 17.0 -8.6 7.4 -1.8 0.0 8.7 Services-producing industries..... 2.0 54.0 35.3 30.2 30.9 -0.3 24.8 27.2 Trade, transportation, and utilities...................... 2.4 9.5 7.0 5.2 2.4 0.8 5.5 4.5 Other services-producing industries..................... -0.4 44.5 28.2 25.1 28.5 -1.1 19.3 22.7 Government.......................... 0.8 1.3 2.2 2.4 5.7 3.4 3.1 1.4 Supplements to wages and salaries..... 2.8 8.2 7.7 5.3 6.1 3.3 5.5 5.9 Employer contributions for employee pension and insurance funds\1\..... 3.5 3.7 3.9 4.1 3.9 3.9 4.0 3.7 Employer contributions for government social insurance........ -0.7 4.5 3.9 1.2 2.3 -0.6 1.5 2.2 Proprietors' income with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments............................ 6.1 2.8 -6.0 11.3 1.7 -2.1 -1.0 7.8 Farm.................................. 2.8 -5.5 -5.5 -5.5 -1.5 -1.5 -1.5 0.3 Nonfarm............................... 3.3 8.3 -0.6 16.7 3.2 -0.6 0.6 7.5 Rental income of persons with capital consumption adjustment................. 2.4 2.6 3.2 3.7 4.4 5.3 5.5 2.5 Personal income receipts on assets...... 6.6 -6.8 -5.8 -9.5 6.8 -3.8 13.1 7.2 Personal interest income.............. 2.0 -9.3 -9.3 -9.3 6.2 6.2 6.2 1.5 Personal dividend income.............. 4.6 2.6 3.5 -0.2 0.6 -10.0 6.9 5.8 Personal current transfer receipts...... 6.9 4.2 7.1 16.7 6.8 11.9 6.3 12.5 Government social benefits to persons.............................. 6.7 4.0 6.9 16.5 6.7 11.7 6.1 12.3 Social security\2\.................. -0.6 2.2 0.6 11.1 -4.5 2.3 -0.2 8.1 Medicare\3\......................... 2.8 3.2 3.1 3.0 3.3 3.1 3.0 2.8 Medicaid............................ 4.5 -0.2 0.8 3.9 0.4 1.2 0.6 2.1 Unemployment insurance.............. -0.6 -0.9 0.5 0.5 0.1 -0.1 -0.7 -0.7 Veterans' benefits.................. 0.8 0.7 2.2 0.4 -0.7 0.5 0.9 3.1 Other............................... -0.3 -1.1 -0.3 -2.4 8.2 4.7 2.6 -3.0 Other current transfer receipts, from business (net)....................... 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 Less: Contributions for government social insurance, domestic............. -1.0 9.2 7.6 2.8 9.2 -0.6 3.4 4.7 Less: Personal current taxes.............. 0.1 21.7 16.0 7.6 -15.4 1.1 7.1 6.3 Equals: Disposable personal income........ 21.5 52.5 42.1 41.4 78.2 14.1 49.6 63.5 Less: Personal outlays.................... 21.1 22.2 53.4 22.3 21.8 29.1 1.8 121.7 Personal consumption expenditures....... 23.1 18.8 49.5 18.4 18.6 30.8 3.7 119.2 Goods................................. -20.5 -7.4 22.2 -25.8 -19.2 -17.5 7.8 68.6 Durable goods....................... 6.2 -6.3 14.9 -6.1 -11.6 5.2 -2.0 30.6 Nondurable goods.................... -26.7 -1.1 7.3 -19.7 -7.6 -22.7 9.8 38.0 Services.............................. 43.6 26.2 27.3 44.2 37.8 48.4 -4.2 50.6 Personal interest payments\4\........... -2.3 3.5 3.5 3.5 -1.8 -1.8 -1.8 2.4 Personal current transfer payments...... 0.3 -0.1 0.3 0.4 5.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 To government......................... 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 4.7 0.1 0.0 0.1 To the rest of the world (net)........ 0.0 -0.3 0.0 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 Equals: Personal saving................... 0.4 30.3 -11.3 19.2 56.3 -15.0 47.8 -58.3 Addenda: Personal income excluding current transfer receipts, billions of chained (2009) dollars\5\...................... 19.9 55.0 31.8 39.2 35.2 13.0 38.7 15.7 Disposable personal income, billions of chained (2009) dollars\5\.............. 26.5 38.6 22.9 48.1 54.6 23.4 37.6 19.2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- p Preliminary r Revised. Revisions include changes to series affected by the incorporation of revised wage and salary estimates for the fourth 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] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2014 2015\r\ --------------Seasonally adjusted at annual rates-------------- 2014 -------------------2015------------------- 2016 IV I II III IV\r\ I\r\ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Personal income........................... 625.8 656.5 180.9 124.2 197.2 166.7 158.5 143.9 Compensation of employees............... 409.3 417.6 135.0 63.0 127.2 94.3 144.2 108.8 Wages and salaries.................... 363.4 357.1 118.7 49.8 109.3 78.2 125.5 92.5 Private industries.................. 333.8 325.6 113.7 41.5 100.8 69.1 120.3 81.2 Goods-producing industries........ 70.8 48.9 26.3 -4.9 15.2 8.3 24.6 10.3 Manufacturing................... 34.0 24.1 15.0 -4.4 9.6 2.4 17.7 6.1 Services-producing industries..... 263.0 276.8 87.4 46.4 85.5 60.8 95.7 70.9 Trade, transportation, and utilities...................... 57.0 61.0 24.1 7.6 18.2 14.3 19.1 10.6 Other services-producing industries..................... 206.0 215.7 63.3 38.8 67.3 46.4 76.6 60.3 Government.......................... 29.6 31.5 5.0 8.3 8.6 9.2 5.1 11.3 Supplements to wages and salaries..... 45.9 60.5 16.3 13.2 17.9 16.1 18.8 16.3 Employer contributions for employee pension and insurance funds\1\..... 26.2 40.3 9.1 10.5 11.6 11.9 11.3 11.9 Employer contributions for government social insurance........ 19.7 20.2 7.1 2.7 6.3 4.2 7.5 4.4 Proprietors' income with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments............................ 61.6 41.6 20.1 -8.4 7.5 23.1 6.7 5.5 Farm.................................. -10.6 -18.2 -2.3 -14.3 -3.6 8.3 -8.1 -8.5 Nonfarm............................... 72.2 59.9 22.4 5.9 11.2 14.8 14.8 14.0 Rental income of persons with capital consumption adjustment................. 47.4 45.8 10.0 8.5 17.1 9.5 8.2 13.3 Personal income receipts on assets...... 57.1 62.9 15.6 14.9 32.8 24.5 -7.5 0.3 Personal interest income.............. 30.7 10.3 1.7 -7.3 30.8 21.6 -16.6 3.0 Personal dividend income.............. 26.5 52.7 13.9 22.2 2.0 2.9 9.1 -2.7 Personal current transfer receipts...... 102.5 133.5 14.5 54.8 25.5 24.3 22.4 30.3 Government social benefits to persons.............................. 101.7 132.3 14.5 54.5 25.0 23.8 21.8 29.8 Social security\2\.................. 35.6 37.2 6.6 17.9 7.8 5.1 7.2 4.6 Medicare\3\......................... 23.2 22.0 4.5 4.5 5.5 7.1 9.0 9.4 Medicaid............................ 47.7 47.5 1.2 16.9 5.1 11.4 5.9 4.3 Unemployment insurance.............. -26.5 -2.5 -1.8 2.2 -1.9 -0.2 -0.8 0.3 Veterans' benefits.................. 4.7 10.7 2.9 4.1 3.3 1.0 2.7 0.8 Other............................... 17.1 17.4 1.1 9.0 5.2 -0.6 -2.2 10.5 Other current transfer receipts, from business (net)....................... 0.8 1.2 0.0 0.3 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.5 Less: Contributions for government social insurance, domestic............. 52.2 45.0 14.3 8.6 13.1 9.0 15.5 14.3 Less: Personal current taxes.............. 107.5 167.2 46.8 61.2 38.6 18.6 36.4 -1.9 Equals: Disposable personal income........ 518.3 489.3 134.1 62.9 158.6 148.1 122.0 145.8 Less: Personal outlays.................... 488.0 423.7 125.6 -10.3 182.3 131.7 90.9 74.5 Personal consumption expenditures....... 473.7 405.9 112.3 -5.9 172.9 130.6 85.7 69.2 Goods................................. 111.7 30.4 -7.2 -78.6 76.6 45.9 -12.5 -38.0 Durable goods....................... 42.4 48.5 8.4 -1.7 24.5 13.3 7.3 -7.9 Nondurable goods.................... 69.3 -18.1 -15.6 -76.9 52.1 32.7 -19.9 -30.1 Services.............................. 362.0 375.5 119.6 72.7 96.3 84.7 98.2 107.2 Personal interest payments\4\........... 10.1 14.3 8.8 -1.8 8.0 0.1 4.7 -0.2 Personal current transfer payments...... 4.3 3.5 4.5 -2.6 1.3 1.0 0.5 5.5 To government......................... 2.7 2.4 0.2 1.1 0.2 0.6 0.9 5.1 To the rest of the world (net)........ 1.6 1.2 4.3 -3.7 1.1 0.4 -0.3 0.4 Equals: Personal saving................... 30.3 65.5 8.6 73.2 -23.7 16.4 31.1 71.3 Addenda: Personal income excluding current transfer receipts, billions of chained (2009) dollars\5\...................... 327.5 443.7 164.4 118.7 94.5 93.0 113.9 93.6 Disposable personal income, billions of chained (2009) dollars\5\.............. 313.2 410.8 135.6 115.9 78.9 96.1 100.5 122.4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- r Revised. Revisions include changes to series affected by the incorporation of revised wage and salary estimates for the fourth 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------------------------- -------------------2015------------------- -------------------2016------------------- Sept. Oct.\r\ Nov.\r\ Dec.\r\ Jan.\r\ Feb.\r\ March\r\ April\p\ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Based on current-dollar measures Personal income........................... 0.1 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.1 0.4 0.4 Compensation of employees............... 0.0 0.8 0.7 0.3 0.5 0.0 0.4 0.4 Wages and salaries.................... -0.1 0.9 0.7 0.3 0.6 0.0 0.4 0.5 Supplements to wages and salaries..... 0.2 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.3 Proprietors' income with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments............................ 0.4 0.2 -0.4 0.8 0.1 -0.1 -0.1 0.6 Rental income of persons with capital consumption adjustment................. 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.4 Personal income receipts on assets...... 0.3 -0.3 -0.3 -0.4 0.3 -0.2 0.6 0.3 Personal interest income.............. 0.2 -0.7 -0.7 -0.7 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.1 Personal dividend income.............. 0.5 0.3 0.4 0.0 0.1 -1.1 0.8 0.7 Personal current transfer receipts...... 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.6 0.3 0.4 0.2 0.5 Less: Contributions for government social insurance, domestic............. -0.1 0.8 0.6 0.2 0.7 0.0 0.3 0.4 Less: Personal current taxes.............. 0.0 1.1 0.8 0.4 -0.8 0.1 0.4 0.3 Equals: Disposable personal income........ 0.2 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.6 0.1 0.4 0.5 Addenda: Personal consumption expenditures....... 0.2 0.2 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.0 1.0 Goods................................. -0.5 -0.2 0.6 -0.6 -0.5 -0.4 0.2 1.7 Durable goods....................... 0.5 -0.5 1.1 -0.4 -0.9 0.4 -0.1 2.3 Nondurable goods.................... -1.0 0.0 0.3 -0.7 -0.3 -0.9 0.4 1.4 Services.............................. 0.5 0.3 0.3 0.5 0.4 0.6 0.0 0.6 Based on chained (2009) dollar measures Real personal income excluding transfer receipts............................... 0.2 0.5 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.3 0.1 Real disposable personal income......... 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.4 0.2 0.3 0.2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- p Preliminary r Revised. Revisions include changes to series affected by the incorporation of revised wage and salary estimates for the fourth quarter of 2015. Table 6. Personal Income and Its Disposition, Percent Change From Preceding Period (Years and Quarters) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2014 2015\r\ --------------Seasonally adjusted at annual rates-------------- 2014 -------------------2015------------------- 2016 IV I II III IV\r\ I\r\ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Based on current-dollar measures Personal income........................... 4.4 4.5 5.0 3.4 5.3 4.4 4.2 3.7 Compensation of employees............... 4.6 4.5 5.9 2.7 5.5 4.0 6.1 4.5 Wages and salaries.................... 5.1 4.8 6.5 2.6 5.8 4.1 6.5 4.7 Supplements to wages and salaries..... 2.7 3.4 3.7 3.0 4.0 3.6 4.1 3.6 Proprietors' income with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments............................ 4.8 3.1 6.1 -2.4 2.2 6.9 1.9 1.6 Rental income of persons with capital consumption adjustment................. 8.4 7.5 6.6 5.5 11.2 5.9 5.0 8.1 Personal income receipts on assets...... 2.8 3.0 3.0 2.8 6.3 4.6 -1.4 0.1 Personal interest income.............. 2.4 0.8 0.5 -2.2 10.0 6.7 -4.9 0.9 Personal dividend income.............. 3.4 6.5 6.9 11.0 0.9 1.3 4.3 -1.2 Personal current transfer receipts...... 4.2 5.3 2.3 8.8 3.9 3.7 3.4 4.6 Less: Contributions for government social insurance, domestic............. 4.7 3.9 5.0 3.0 4.5 3.0 5.2 4.8 Less: Personal current taxes.............. 6.4 9.4 10.9 14.0 8.4 3.9 7.7 -0.4 Equals: Disposable personal income........ 4.2 3.8 4.2 1.9 4.9 4.5 3.7 4.4 Addenda: Personal consumption expenditures....... 4.2 3.4 3.8 -0.2 5.9 4.3 2.8 2.2 Goods................................. 2.9 0.8 -0.7 -7.7 8.1 4.7 -1.2 -3.7 Durable goods....................... 3.4 3.8 2.6 -0.5 7.8 4.1 2.2 -2.3 Nondurable goods.................... 2.7 -0.7 -2.3 -11.0 8.3 5.0 -2.9 -4.4 Services.............................. 4.8 4.7 6.1 3.6 4.8 4.2 4.8 5.2 Based on chained (2009) dollar measures Real personal income excluding transfer receipts............................... 3.0 4.0 6.0 4.3 3.3 3.3 4.0 3.2 Real disposable personal income......... 2.7 3.5 4.7 3.9 2.6 3.2 3.3 4.0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- r Revised. Revisions include changes to series affected by the incorporation of revised wage and salary estimates for the fourth quarter of 2015. Table 7. Real Personal Consumption Expenditures by Major Type of Product (Months) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------2015------------------- -------------------2016------------------- Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan.\r\ Feb.\r\ March\r\ April\p\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Billions of chained (2009) dollars, seasonally adjusted at annual rates Personal consumption expenditures (PCE)... 11,292.7 11,301.3 11,332.3 11,358.5 11,360.3 11,398.0 11,394.4 11,467.7 Goods......................................... 3,909.1 3,902.6 3,927.6 3,923.6 3,912.6 3,919.7 3,933.7 3,981.9 Durable goods............................... 1,487.0 1,483.2 1,503.8 1,499.4 1,483.1 1,493.1 1,496.2 1,529.4 Nondurable goods............................ 2,450.2 2,447.2 2,453.7 2,453.5 2,456.8 2,455.1 2,465.8 2,483.5 Services...................................... 7,386.2 7,400.4 7,407.9 7,436.8 7,448.3 7,478.2 7,462.4 7,490.2 Change from preceding period in billions of chained (2009) dollars, seasonally adjusted at annual rates Personal consumption expenditures (PCE)... 27.4 8.6 31.0 26.2 1.8 37.7 -3.5 73.3 Goods......................................... 0.1 -6.5 25.0 -4.0 -11.0 7.1 14.0 48.2 Durable goods............................... 3.0 -3.8 20.5 -4.3 -16.3 10.0 3.1 33.2 Nondurable goods............................ -2.3 -3.0 6.5 -0.2 3.3 -1.7 10.7 17.7 Services...................................... 26.5 14.3 7.4 28.9 11.5 29.9 -15.8 27.8 Percent change from preceding period in chained (2009) dollars, seasonally adjusted at monthly rates Personal consumption expenditures (PCE)... 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.6 Goods......................................... 0.0 -0.2 0.6 -0.1 -0.3 0.2 0.4 1.2 Durable goods............................... 0.2 -0.3 1.4 -0.3 -1.1 0.7 0.2 2.2 Nondurable goods............................ -0.1 -0.1 0.3 0.0 0.1 -0.1 0.4 0.7 Services...................................... 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.4 0.2 0.4 -0.2 0.4 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- p Preliminary r Revised Table 8. Real Personal Consumption Expenditures by Major Type of Product (Years and Quarters) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2014 2015 --------------Seasonally adjusted at annual rates-------------- 2014 -------------------2015------------------- 2016 IV I II III IV I\r\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Billions of chained (2009) dollars Personal consumption expenditures (PCE)... 10,875.7 11,213.3 11,033.3 11,081.2 11,178.9 11,262.4 11,330.7 11,384.2 Goods......................................... 3,731.2 3,869.6 3,793.2 3,803.7 3,855.0 3,902.0 3,917.9 3,922.0 Durable goods............................... 1,384.1 1,466.5 1,423.5 1,430.4 1,458.3 1,481.7 1,495.5 1,490.8 Nondurable goods............................ 2,367.8 2,430.0 2,393.7 2,397.8 2,423.0 2,447.9 2,451.5 2,459.2 Services...................................... 7,144.6 7,345.3 7,240.4 7,277.4 7,325.3 7,363.4 7,415.0 7,462.9 Change from preceding period in billions of chained (2009) dollars Personal consumption expenditures (PCE)... 285.3 337.6 114.7 48.0 97.7 83.5 68.3 53.5 Goods......................................... 118.4 138.5 38.0 10.5 51.3 47.0 16.0 4.1 Durable goods............................... 76.5 82.4 21.0 7.0 27.8 23.4 13.8 -4.7 Nondurable goods............................ 48.0 62.2 18.5 4.1 25.2 24.9 3.6 7.8 Services...................................... 167.6 200.7 76.5 37.0 47.9 38.1 51.6 47.9 Percent change from preceding period in chained (2009) dollars Personal consumption expenditures (PCE)... 2.7 3.1 4.3 1.8 3.6 3.0 2.4 1.9 Goods......................................... 3.3 3.7 4.1 1.1 5.5 5.0 1.6 0.4 Durable goods............................... 5.9 6.0 6.1 2.0 8.0 6.6 3.8 -1.2 Nondurable goods............................ 2.1 2.6 3.1 0.7 4.3 4.2 0.6 1.3 Services...................................... 2.4 2.8 4.3 2.1 2.7 2.1 2.8 2.6 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- r Revised Table 9. Price Indexes for Personal Consumption Expenditures: Level and Percent Change From Preceding Period (Months) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------2015------------------- -------------------2016------------------- Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan.\r\ Feb.\r\ March\r\ April\p\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chain-type price indexes (2009=100), seasonally adjusted Personal consumption expenditures (PCE)... 109.691 109.774 109.911 109.819 109.965 109.872 109.939 110.276 Goods......................................... 102.643 102.626 102.540 101.988 101.783 101.151 100.989 101.491 Durable goods............................... 90.452 90.262 90.019 89.872 90.078 89.825 89.504 89.561 Nondurable goods............................ 108.862 108.949 108.959 108.166 107.714 106.860 106.796 107.565 Services...................................... 113.381 113.516 113.771 113.923 114.254 114.444 114.631 114.880 Addenda: PCE excluding food and energy............... 109.794 109.860 110.020 110.095 110.421 110.621 110.685 110.874 Food\1\..................................... 111.371 111.461 111.197 110.867 110.704 110.911 110.412 110.617 Energy goods and services\2\................ 102.512 102.840 103.133 100.033 97.045 90.727 91.736 95.215 Market-based PCE\3\......................... 108.480 108.565 108.658 108.542 108.595 108.503 108.555 108.879 Market-based PCE excluding food and energy\3\.................................. 108.395 108.461 108.574 108.644 108.889 109.131 109.179 109.333 Percent change from preceding period in price indexes, seasonally adjusted at monthly rates Personal consumption expenditures (PCE)... -0.1 0.1 0.1 -0.1 0.1 -0.1 0.1 0.3 Goods......................................... -0.5 0.0 -0.1 -0.5 -0.2 -0.6 -0.2 0.5 Durable goods............................... 0.3 -0.2 -0.3 -0.2 0.2 -0.3 -0.4 0.1 Nondurable goods............................ -0.9 0.1 0.0 -0.7 -0.4 -0.8 -0.1 0.7 Services...................................... 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 Addenda: PCE excluding food and energy............... 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.2 Food\1\..................................... 0.2 0.1 -0.2 -0.3 -0.1 0.2 -0.4 0.2 Energy goods and services\2\................ -5.0 0.3 0.3 -3.0 -3.0 -6.5 1.1 3.8 Market-based PCE\3\......................... -0.1 0.1 0.1 -0.1 0.0 -0.1 0.0 0.3 Market-based PCE excluding food and energy\3\.................................. 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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------------------- -------------------2016------------------- Sept. Oct.\r\ Nov.\r\ Dec.\r\ Jan.\r\ Feb.\r\ March\r\ April\p\ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disposable personal income................ 3.7 3.6 3.2 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.7 3.3 Personal consumption expenditures......... 3.1 2.8 2.6 2.7 2.6 2.9 2.6 3.0 Goods................................... 4.1 3.4 3.2 3.2 3.0 3.6 2.7 4.0 Durable goods......................... 6.0 5.2 5.0 5.0 3.9 5.3 3.5 5.5 Nondurable goods...................... 3.2 2.6 2.4 2.3 2.6 2.8 2.3 3.3 Services................................ 2.7 2.5 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.6 2.5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- p Preliminary r Revised. Revisions include changes to series affected by the incorporation of revised wage and salary estimates for the fourth quarter of 2015. Table 11. Price Indexes for Personal Consumption Expenditures: Percent Change From Month One Year Ago --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------2015------------------- -------------------2016------------------- Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan.\r\ Feb.\r\ March\r\ April\p\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Personal consumption expenditures (PCE)... 0.2 0.2 0.5 0.7 1.3 1.0 0.8 1.1 Goods......................................... -3.2 -3.1 -2.3 -1.9 -0.5 -1.4 -1.8 -1.2 Durable goods............................... -1.9 -2.0 -1.7 -1.3 -0.9 -1.4 -1.6 -1.7 Nondurable goods............................ -3.9 -3.6 -2.6 -2.2 -0.3 -1.4 -1.9 -0.9 Services...................................... 1.9 1.9 1.9 1.9 2.1 2.2 2.1 2.2 Addenda: PCE excluding food and energy............... 1.3 1.3 1.4 1.4 1.7 1.7 1.6 1.6 Food\1\..................................... 0.7 0.7 0.2 -0.3 -0.2 -0.1 -0.2 0.1 Energy goods and services\2\................ -19.7 -18.3 -14.3 -12.4 -5.3 -12.4 -12.7 -8.1 Market-based PCE\3\......................... -0.1 0.0 0.3 0.4 1.1 0.8 0.7 0.9 Market-based PCE excluding food and energy\3\.................................. 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.3 1.5 1.6 1.5 1.4 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.