US Data: Personal Income - Select Calculations>

Data through: January 2018

Source: U.S. Commerce Department

Units as noted

Calculations by Market News International

                      4Q-17     1Q-18 qtr/qtr Annualized Annualized

                       Avg.      Avg.   % chg      % chg   % chg(1)

Personal Income    16658.067 16783.600     0.8        3.0        4.6

Wages & Salaries    8483.867  8569.000     1.0        4.1        6.2

PCE (2009$)        12027.867 12049.200     0.2        0.7        1.1

PCE Deflator         113.458   114.064     0.5        2.2        3.2

 ex. food,energy     113.765   114.230     0.4        1.6        2.5

Mkt-Based Deflator   111.307   111.920     0.6        2.2        3.4

 ex. food,energy     111.310   111.763     0.4        1.6        2.5

Footnotes:

(1) Assumes annualization is 12 divided by the number of months between

the center of the mass of data. This results in an exponent of

6.0 for one month of data in the quarter and an exponent of 4.8

when two months of a quarter's data are available.

     ** MNI Washington Bureau (202) 371-2121 **

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