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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Personal Income and Outlays, March 2011 [29 April 2011]

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2011/pi0311.htm

or

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2011/pdf/pi0311.pdf

[full-text, 12 pages]

or

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2011/xls/pi0311.xls

[spreadsheet]

and

Highlights

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2011/pdf/pi0311_fax.pdf

Personal income increased $67.0 billion, or 0.5 percent, and disposable personal income (DPI)

increased $64.4 billion, or 0.6 percent, in March, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $60.7 billion, or 0.6 percent.  In February,

personal income increased $53.1 billion, or 0.4 percent, DPI increased $49.6 billion, or 0.4 percent,

and PCE increased $94.4 billion, or 0.9 percent, based on revised estimates.

Real disposable income increased 0.1 percent in March, compared with an increase of less than 0.1

percent in February.  Real PCE increased 0.2 percent, compared with an increase of 0.5 percent.

[tables]

Wages and salaries

Private wage and salary disbursements increased $18.0 billion in March, compared with an increase

of $23.9 billion in February.  Goods-producing industries' payrolls increased $6.2 billion, compared

with an increase of $1.0 billion; manufacturing payrolls increased $5.1 billion, in contrast

to a decrease of $0.5 billion.  Services-producing industries' payrolls increased $11.8 billion,

compared with an increase of $22.9 billion.  Government wage and salary disbursements increased

$1.2 billion, in contrast to a decrease of $0.4 billion.

AND MUCH MORE...including TABLES....

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Stuart Basefsky                   
Director, IWS News Bureau                
Institute for Workplace Studies 
Cornell/ILR School                        
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor             
New York, NY 10016                        
                                   
Telephone: (607) 262-6041               
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