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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 2012 [30 April 2012]

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2012/pi0312.htm

or

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2012/pdf/pi0312.pdf

[full-text, 11 pages]

or

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2012/xls/pi0312.xls

[spreadsheet]

and

Highlights

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2012/pdf/pi0312_fax.pdf

 

 

Personal income increased $50.3 billion, or 0.4 percent, and disposable personal income (DPI)

increased $42.5 billion, or 0.4 percent, in March, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $29.6 billion, or 0.3 percent.  In February,

personal income increased $39.6 billion, or 0.3 percent, DPI increased $29.4 billion, or 0.2 percent,

and PCE increased $93.7 billion, or 0.9 percent, based on revised estimates.

 

Real disposable income increased 0.2 percent in March, in contrast to a decrease of 0.1 percent

in February.  Real PCE increased 0.1 percent, compared with an increase of 0.5 percent.

 

[TABLE]

 

                                Wages and salaries

 

Private wage and salary disbursements increased $17.3 billion in March, compared with an increase

of $24.1 billion in February.  Goods-producing industries' payrolls decreased $1.3 billion, in contrast

to an increase of $1.8 billion; manufacturing payrolls increased $0.1 billion, compared with an increase

of $1.6 billion.  Services-producing industries' payrolls increased $18.6 billion, compared with an

increase of $22.3 billion.  Government wage and salary disbursements increased $1.4 billion, compared with

an increase of $0.7 billion.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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