BEA News: Personal Income and Outlays, June 2024 The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has issued the following news release today: Personal income increased $50.4 billion (0.2 percent at a monthly rate) in June.  Disposable personal income (DPI)—personal income less personal current taxes—increased $37.7 billion (0.2 percent).  Personal outlays—the sum of personal consumption expenditures (PCE), personal interest payments, and personal current transfer payments—increased $59.3 billion (0.3 percent) and consumer spending increased $57.6 billion (0.3 percent).  Personal saving was $703.0 billion and the personal saving rate—personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income—was 3.4 percent in June. The full text of the release can be found at www.bea.gov/news/2024/personal-income-and-outlays-june-2024.

Personal Income and Outlays, June 2024

Personal income increased $50.4 billion (0.2 percent at a monthly rate) in June, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (tables 2 and 3). 

Disposable personal income (DPI), personal income less personal current taxes, increased $37.7 billion (0.2 percent) and personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $57.6 billion (0.3 percent).

The PCE price index increased 0.1 percent. Excluding food and energy, the PCE price index increased 0.2 percent (table 5). 

Real DPI increased 0.1 percent in June and real PCE increased 0.2 percent; goods increased 0.2 percent and services increased 0.2 percent (tables 3 and 4).

	2024
	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	June
	Percent change from preceding month
Personal income:
Current dollars	0.3	0.5	0.2	0.4	0.2
Disposable personal income:
Current dollars	0.2	0.5	0.2	0.4	0.2
Chained (2017) dollars	-0.1	0.2	-0.1	0.3	0.1
Personal consumption expenditures (PCE):
Current dollars	0.6	0.7	0.2	0.4	0.3
Chained (2017) dollars	0.2	0.3	-0.1	0.4	0.2
Price indexes:
PCE	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.1
PCE, excluding food and energy	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.1	0.2
Price indexes:	Percent change from month one year ago
PCE	2.5	2.7	2.7	2.6	2.5
PCE, excluding food and energy	2.8	2.8	2.8	2.6	2.6

The increase in current-dollar personal income in June primarily reflected increases in compensation and personal current transfer receipts (table 2).

The $57.6 billion increase in current-dollar PCE in June reflected an increase of $53.1 billion in spending for services and an increase of $4.5 billion in spending for goods (table 2). 

Within services, the largest contributors to the increase were other services (led by international travel) and housing and utilities (led by housing). Within goods, the largest contributors to the increase were other nondurable goods (led by pharmaceutical and other medical products) and recreational goods and vehicles (led by information processing equipment). 

These increases were partly offset by decreases in motor vehicles and parts (led by new motor vehicles) and gasoline and other energy goods. Detailed information on monthly PCE spending can be found on Table 2.4.5U.

Personal outlays—the sum of PCE, personal interest payments, and personal current transfer payments—increased $59.3 billion in June (table 2). 

Personal saving was $703.0 billion in June and the 

Personal saving rate—personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income—was 3.4 percent (table 1).

Prices

From the preceding month, the PCE price index for June increased 0.1 percent (table 5). 

Prices for goods decreased 0.2 percent and prices for services increased 0.2 percent. 

Food prices increased 0.1 percent and energy prices decreased 2.1 percent. 

Excluding food and energy, the PCE price index increased 0.2 percent. 

Detailed monthly PCE price indexes can be found on Table 2.4.4U.

From the same month one year ago, the PCE price index for June increased 2.5 percent (table 7). 

Prices for goods decreased 0.2 percent and prices for services increased 3.9 percent. 

Food prices increased 1.4 percent and energy prices increased 2.0 percent. 

Excluding food and energy, the PCE price index increased 2.6 percent from one year ago.

Real PCE

The 0.2 percent increase in real PCE in June reflected an increase of 0.2 percent in spending on goods and an increase of 0.2 percent in spending on services (table 4). 

Within goods, the largest contributor to the increase was recreational goods and vehicles (led by information processing equipment). 

Within services, the largest contributor to the increase was housing and utilities. 

Detailed information on monthly real PCE spending can be found on Table 2.4.6U.

Updates to Personal Income and Outlays

Estimates have been updated for April and May. 

Revised and previously published changes from the preceding month for current-dollar personal income, and for current-dollar and chained (2017) dollar DPI and PCE, are provided below for April and May.

	Change from preceding month
	April				May
	Previous	Revised	Previous	Revised	Previous	Revised	Previous	Revised
	(Billions of dollars)		(Percent)		(Billions of dollars)		(Percent)
Personal income:
Current dollars	63.0	52.7	0.3	0.2	114.1	98.7	0.5	0.4
Disposable personal income:
Current dollars	52.0	38.4	0.3	0.2	94.0	76.3	0.5	0.4
Chained (2017) dollars	-2.4	-13.9	0.0	-0.1	77.7	56.8	0.5	0.3
Personal consumption expenditures:
Current dollars	26.3	39.1	0.1	0.2	47.8	83.7	0.2	0.4
Chained (2017) dollars	-20.1	-10.1	-0.1	-0.1	40.2	63.3	0.3	0.4

Annual Update of the National Economic Accounts

BEA will release results from the 2024 annual update of the National Economic Accounts, which include the National Income and Product Accounts as well as the Industry Economic Accounts, on September 26, 2024. The update will present revised statistics for GDP, GDP by Industry, and gross domestic income. Updated monthly personal income and outlays will be released on September 27, along with the August 2024 estimate. For details, refer to Information on 2024 Annual Updates to the National, Industry, and State and Local Economic Accounts.

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Next release:  August 30, 2024, at 8:30 a.m. EDT
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