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Personal Income and Outlays - August 2007

Personal Income and Spending At a Glance

Personal Income: $11,774.5 Billion
Monthly Change: Up $40.2 Billion
Real Disposable Personal Income: Up 0.5%
Personal Spending: $10,202.9 Billion
Monthly Change: Up $54.2 Billion

PERSONAL INCOME AND OUTLAYS
AUGUST 2007

Personal income increased $40.2 billion, or 0.3 percent, and disposable personal income (DPI)
increased $37.2 billion, or 0.4 percent, in August, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $54.8 billion, or 0.6 percent. In July, personal
income increased $61.5 billion, or 0.5 percent, DPI increased $60.3 billion, or 0.6 percent, and PCE
increased $37.3 billion, or 0.4 percent, based on revised estimates.

2007
Apr. May June July Aug.
(Percent change from preceding month)
Personal income, current dollars 0.0 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.3
Disposable personal income:
Current dollars -0.1 0.5 0.4 0.6 0.4
Chained (2000) dollars -0.4 0.0 0.3 0.5 0.4
Personal consumption expenditures:
Current dollars 0.6 0.5 0.2 0.4 0.6
Chained (2000) dollars 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.6

Wages and salaries

Private wage and salary disbursements increased $12.8 billion in August, compared with an
increase of $22.4 billion in July. Goods-producing industries’ payrolls increased $0.6 billion,
compared with an increase of less than $0.1 billion; manufacturing payrolls decreased $0.6 billion,
in contrast to an increase of $0.1 billion. Services-producing industries’ payrolls increased $12.3
billion, compared with an increase of $22.2 billion. Government wage and salary disbursements
increased $1.6 billion, compared with an increase of $1.4 billion.

Other personal income

Supplements to wages and salaries increased $4.1 billion in August, compared with an increase
of $6.1 billion in July.

Proprietors’ income increased $3.0 billion in August, compared with an increase of $6.7 billion
in July. Farm proprietors’ income increased $1.5 billion, compared with an increase of $1.0 billion.
Nonfarm proprietors’ income increased $1.5 billion, compared with an increase of $5.7 billion.

Rental income of persons decreased $1.3 billion in August, compared with a decrease of $2.4
billion in July. Personal income receipts on assets (personal interest income plus personal dividend
income) increased $15.7 billion, compared with an increase of $16.0 billion. Personal current
transfer receipts increased $5.6 billion, compared with an increase of $14.7 billion.

Contributions for government social insurance — a subtraction in calculating personal income –
increased $1.5 billion in August, compared with an increase of $3.3 billion in July.

Personal current taxes and disposable personal income

Personal current taxes increased $3.0 billion in August, compared with an increase of $1.2
billion in July. Disposable personal income (DPI) — personal income less personal current taxes –
increased $37.2 billion, or 0.4 percent, in August, compared with an increase of $60.3 billion, or 0.6
percent, in July.

Personal outlays and personal saving

Personal outlays — PCE, personal interest payments, and personal current transfer payments
increased $54.2 billion in August, compared with an increase of $36.7 billion in July. PCE
increased $54.8 billion, compared with an increase of $37.3 billion.

Personal saving — DPI less personal outlays — was $72.5 billion in August, compared with
$89.5 billion in July. Personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income was 0.7 percent
in August, compared with 0.9 percent in July. Saving from current income may be near zero or
negative when outlays are financed by borrowing (including borrowing financed through credit
cards or home equity loans), by selling investments or other assets, or by using savings from
previous periods. For more information, see the FAQs on “Personal Saving” on BEA’s Web site.
For a comparison of personal saving in BEA’s national income and product accounts with personal
saving in the Federal Reserve Board’s flow of funds accounts and data on changes in net worth
(which helped finance negative saving), go to http://www.bea.gov/bea/dn/nipaweb/Nipa-Frb.asp.

Real DPI and real PCE

Real DPI — DPI adjusted to remove price changes — increased 0.4 percent in August,
compared with an increase of 0.5 percent in July.

Real PCE — PCE adjusted to remove price changes — increased 0.6 percent in August,
compared with an increase of 0.3 percent in July. Purchases of durable goods increased 2.8 percent,
in contrast to a decrease of 0.3 percent. Purchases of motor vehicles and parts accounted for most of
the increase in August. Purchases of nondurable goods decreased less than 0.1 percent in August, in
contrast to an increase of 0.5 percent in July. Purchases of services increased 0.6 percent, compared
with an increase of 0.3 percent.

PCE price index — The PCE price index decreased 0.1 percent in August, in contrast to an
increase of 0.1 percent in July. The PCE price index, excluding food and energy, increased 0.1
percent in August, the same increase as in July.

Personal Income and Spending Full Report August 2007 [PDF]

Personal Income and Spending August 2007 Tables [Excel]

Source: Commerce Department, Bureau of Economic Analysis

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