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Personal income: Compensation of employees: Wages and salaries: Government (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly

Latest updates. According to national-accounts data for the United States published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the item "Personal income: Compensation of employees: Wages and salaries: Government" stood at 1,943,044 USD million (annual rate) in November 2025, compared to 1,934,357 in the previous month. This constitutes a gain of 0.45 percent.

Sample. The monthly series presented in the graph has 803 data points overall. The series covers the span of time extending from January 1959 to November 2025.

History. Here's a glimpse of some descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: this national-accounts item had a mean of 671,839 USD million; it reached a trough of 45,437 in February 1959; it reached its highest level of 1,947,356 in September 2025.

Latest values

Date Value - US dollar million
2025-09-30 1947356.0
2025-10-31 1934357.0
2025-11-30 1943044.0

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Series Metadata

Field Value
Description Personal income: Compensation of employees: Wages and salaries: Government
Country United States
Economic concept Flow
Data type Nominal aggregate
Seasonally adjusted Yes
Deflation method Current prices
Rescaling Annual rate
Measure type Level
Frequency Monthly
Unit US dollar million
Source Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
Source type National statistical agency
Data licence Open data
Other information Not available
FSR temporal aggregation code SM1

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Top-level items

Series Name Observations Start Date End Date
Personal income (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal current taxes (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Disposable personal income (personal income less personal current taxes) (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal outlays (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal saving (disposable personal income less personal outlays) (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30

Personal income detail

Series Name Observations Start Date End Date
Personal income: Compensation of employees (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal income: Compensation of employees: Wages and salaries (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal income: Compensation of employees: Wages and salaries: Private industries (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal income: Compensation of employees: Wages and salaries: Government (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal income: Compensation of employees: Supplements to wages and salaries (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal income: Compensation of employees: Supplements to wages and salaries: Employer contributions for employee pension and insurance funds (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal income: Compensation of employees: Supplements to wages and salaries: Employer contributions for government social insurance (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal income: Proprietors' income with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal income: Proprietors' income with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments: Farm (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal income: Proprietors' income with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments: Nonfarm (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal income: Rental income of persons with capital consumption adjustment (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal income: Personal income receipts on assets (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal income: Personal income receipts on assets: Personal interest income (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal income: Personal income receipts on assets: Personal dividend income (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal income: Personal current transfer receipts (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal income: Personal current transfer receipts: Government social benefits to persons (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal income: Personal current transfer receipts: Government social benefits to persons: Social security (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal income: Personal current transfer receipts: Government social benefits to persons: Medicare (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 713 1966-07-31 2025-11-30
Personal income: Personal current transfer receipts: Government social benefits to persons: Medicaid (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 719 1966-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal income: Personal current transfer receipts: Government social benefits to persons: Unemployment insurance (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal income: Personal current transfer receipts: Government social benefits to persons: Veterans' benefits (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal income: Personal current transfer receipts: Government social benefits to persons: Other (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal income: Personal current transfer receipts: Other current transfer receipts, from business (net) (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal income: Deduction: Contributions for government social insurance, domestic (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30

Personal outlays detail

Series Name Observations Start Date End Date
Personal outlays: Personal consumption expenditures (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal outlays: Personal interest payments (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal outlays: Personal current transfer payments (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal outlays: Personal current transfer payments: To government (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30
Personal outlays: Personal current transfer payments: To the rest of the world (net) (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly 803 1959-01-31 2025-11-30