Personal Income | FRED

**Overview**

Personal income is the income that persons receive in return for their provision of labor, land, and capital used in current production and the net current transfer payments that they receive from business and from government.25 Personal income is equal to national income minus corporate profits with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments, taxes on production and imports less subsidies, contributions for government social insurance, net interest and miscellaneous payments on assets, business current transfer payments (net), current surplus of government enterprises, and wage accruals less disbursements, plus personal income receipts on assets and personal current transfer receipts.

**Product Details**

Includes the following tables:

- **fs_fred.fred_pi**
- **Update frequency:** Monthly
- **Source:** FRED
- **Description:** The included dataset contains the following columns: `DATE`, `PI`. The values within the column labeled `PI` represent the personal income at the time of the corresponding `DATE` field. The unit of data column `PI` is Billions of Dollars and the values are based on seasonally adjusted annual rate. BEA account code for this dataset is A065RC.

**Data Sources**

The data in this product comes from **FRED**.

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- **Source Homepage:** [FRED](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/)
- **Source Data:** [Personal Income (PI)](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PI)
- **License:** [Full FRED® Services Terms of Use](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/legal/#full-fred-terms)
- **Frequency:** monthly