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" was 1,973,358 USD million (annual rate) in September 2026, versus 1,968,873 in August 2026. This constitutes a gain of 0.23 percent.
Sample. There are 813 records in the monthly time series shown in the chart above. The series covers the time range extending from January 1959 to September 2026.
History. Here are a few descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: this national-accounts item reached a trough of 45,437 USD million in February 1959; it hit a maximum of 1,973,358 USD million in September 2026; it had a mean value of 687,564 USD million.
Latest values
| Date | Value - US dollar million |
|---|---|
| 2026-07-31 | 1,960,826 |
| 2026-08-31 | 1,968,873 |
| 2026-09-30 | 1,973,358 |
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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 | 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 |