US Data: Personal Income - Select Calculations>

Data through: February 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    16655.300 16827.550     1.0        4.2        5.1

Wages & Salaries    8485.167  8598.200     1.3        5.4        6.6

PCE (2009$)        12035.200 12053.500     0.2        0.6        0.7

PCE Deflator         113.459   114.191     0.6        2.6        3.1

 ex. food,energy     113.765   114.377     0.5        2.2        2.6

Mkt-Based Deflator   111.311   112.003     0.6        2.5        3.0

 ex. food,energy     111.312   111.862     0.5        2.0        2.4

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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