Personal income decreased less than $0.1 billion (less than 0.1 percent at a monthly rate) in April, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). Disposable personal income (DPI)—personal income less personal current taxes—decreased $19.9 billion (0.1 percent), and personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $111.1 billion (0.5 percent).
Personal outlays—the sum of PCE, personal interest payments, and personal current transfer payments—increased $114.0 billion in April. Personal saving was $611.7 billion in April, and the personal saving rate—personal saving as a percentage of DPI—was 2.6 percent.
The decrease in current-dollar personal income in April primarily reflected a decrease in farm proprietors’ income that was partly offset by an increase in compensation.
The $111.1 billion increase in current-dollar PCE in April reflected increases of $67.2 billion in spending on services and $44.0 billion in spending on goods.
Real PCE increased $18.1 billion (0.1 percent at a monthly rate) in April.
From the preceding month, the PCE price index for April increased 0.4 percent. Excluding food and energy, the PCE price index increased 0.2 percent.
From the same month one year ago, the PCE price index for April increased 3.8 percent. Excluding food and energy, the PCE price index increased 3.3 percent from one year ago.
| Personal Income and Related Measures |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| March | April | |||
| Current-dollar personal income | 0.5 | 0.0 | ||
| Current-dollar DPI | 0.5 | -0.1 | ||
| Real DPI | -0.2 | -0.5 | ||
| Current-dollar PCE | 1.0 | 0.5 | ||
| Real PCE | 0.3 | 0.1 | ||
| PCE price index | 0.7 | 0.4 | ||
| PCE price index excluding food and energy | 0.3 | 0.2 | ||
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Next release: June 25, 2026, at 8:30 a.m. EDT
Personal Income and Outlays, May 2026
Technical Notes
Changes in personal income and outlays for April
The April decrease of less than $0.1 billion ($19 million) in personal income primarily reflected a decrease in farm proprietors’ income that was partly offset by an increase in compensation.
- The decrease in farm proprietors’ income reflected a decrease in payments to farmers from the Farmer Bridge Assistance Program, which closed application submissions in mid-April.
- Within compensation, the increase was led by private wages and salaries based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Current Employment Statistics (CES).
Legal services prices
The PCE price index for legal services was adjusted for the months of January and March. No adjustment was made for February or April. For more information on why BEA sometimes adjusts source data, refer to the FAQ “Does BEA adjust source data that are used to estimate GDP and related measures?”.
Revisions to personal income
Estimates have been updated for October through March. Revisions for October through December for compensation, personal taxes, and contributions for government social insurance reflect the incorporation of fourth-quarter wage and salary data from the BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages program. The estimates for January through March reflect updated BLS CES data.
Related Data Tables
For the statistics highlighted in this release, as well as historical time series for these estimates, see the following data tables in BEA’s Interactive Data Application.
Table 2.6. Personal Income and Its Disposition
Table 2.8.1. Percent Change From Preceding Period in Real PCE by Major Type of Product
Table 2.8.5. PCE by Major Type of Product
Table 2.8.6. Real PCE by Major Type of Product
Table 2.8.7. Percent Change From Preceding Period in Prices for PCE by Major Type of Product
Table 2.8.11. Real PCE by Major Type of Product: Percent Change From Month One Year Ago
Note. With the next release of PIO, today’s data will be superseded, and the links above will reflect the latest data. The original data featured in this release can then be accessed in BEA’s Data Archive.
