Personal income: Compensation of employees: Wages and salaries: Government (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: Personal income and its disposition
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)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
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 |