Personal income: Compensation of employees: Supplements to wages and salaries (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: Supplements to wages and salaries" was 2,913,892 USD million (annual rate) in September 2026, versus 2,902,495 in August. This marks a rise of 0.39 percent.
Sample. In this monthly series, there are 813 observations overall. The time span covered by the series is from January 1959 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: this national-accounts item had an average value of 904,969 USD million; it hit a trough of 25,695 USD million in January 1959; it reached its highest level of 2,913,892 USD million in September 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - US dollar million |
|---|---|
| 2026-07-31 | 2,890,652 |
| 2026-08-31 | 2,902,495 |
| 2026-09-30 | 2,913,892 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Personal income: Compensation of employees: Supplements to wages and salaries |
| 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 | 813 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-09-30 |
| Personal current taxes (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 813 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-09-30 |
| Disposable personal income (personal income less personal current taxes) (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 813 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-09-30 |
| Personal outlays (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 813 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-09-30 |
| Personal saving (disposable personal income less personal outlays) (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 813 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-09-30 |
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 | 813 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-09-30 |
| Personal outlays: Personal interest payments (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 813 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-09-30 |
| Personal outlays: Personal current transfer payments (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 813 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-09-30 |
| Personal outlays: Personal current transfer payments: To government (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 813 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-09-30 |
| Personal outlays: Personal current transfer payments: To the rest of the world (net) (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 813 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-09-30 |