Personal income: Personal current transfer receipts (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: Personal current transfer receipts" was 5,131,788 USD million (annual rate) in May 2026, versus 5,102,533 in April 2026. This marks a rise of 0.57 percent.
Sample. In the monthly time series shown in the figure, there are a total of 809 records. The series covers the time range stretching from January 1959 to May 2026.
History. Take a look at a few simple statistics calculated on the entire sample: this national-accounts item recorded its maximum of 8,225,072 USD million in March 2021; it hit a trough of 23,820 in May 1959; it had a mean of 1,262,785.
Latest values
| Date | Value - US dollar million |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-31 | 5097273.0 |
| 2026-04-30 | 5102533.0 |
| 2026-05-31 | 5131788.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Personal income: Personal current transfer receipts |
| 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 | 809 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-05-31 |
| Personal current taxes (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 809 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-05-31 |
| Disposable personal income (personal income less personal current taxes) (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 809 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-05-31 |
| Personal outlays (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 809 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-05-31 |
| Personal saving (disposable personal income less personal outlays) (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 809 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-05-31 |
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 | 809 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-05-31 |
| Personal outlays: Personal interest payments (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 809 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-05-31 |
| Personal outlays: Personal current transfer payments (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 809 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-05-31 |
| Personal outlays: Personal current transfer payments: To government (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 809 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-05-31 |
| Personal outlays: Personal current transfer payments: To the rest of the world (net) (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 809 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-05-31 |