BEA State Personal Income
How much income the people of every state receive and where it comes from, every year since 1929: pay from work, business and farm profits, investment income, and government payments program by program, from Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid to food assistance and unemployment insurance, with the taxes they pay, the income left after taxes, per-person figures and the number of jobs. Use it to compare states' prosperity and its growth over nearly a century, to rank states by income per person, or to see how much a state's residents depend on federal programs.
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- U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
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- BEA (regional economic accounts)
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Personal income consists of the income that persons receive in return for their provision of labor, land, and capital used in current production as well as other income, such as personal current transfer receipts. In the state and local personal income accounts the personal income of an area represents the income received by or on behalf of the persons residing in that area.
Disposable personal income is personal income less personal current taxes.
Refundable tax credits are already included in the lines and totals above.
Fields
What each record holds, as the publisher describes it: 107 fields.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
geoid | State FIPS code; 00 the United States, 91–98 BEA's eight regions |
name | BEA's name for the area |
region | BEA region: 1 New England, 2 Mideast, 3 Great Lakes, 4 Plains, 5 Southeast, 6 Southwest, 7 Rocky Mountain, 8 Far West; null for the United States |
year | Calendar year |
personal_income | Personal income, dollars |
nonfarm_personal_income | Personal income less farm income, dollars |
farm_income | Farm income, dollars |
population | Midyear population, persons (the Census Bureau's estimate) |
per_capita_personal_income | Personal income per person, dollars |
earnings_by_place_of_work | Earnings of people working here, wherever they live, dollars |
contributions_for_social_insurance | Contributions for government social insurance, subtracted, dollars |
employee_contributions_for_social_insurance | Employee and self-employed contributions, dollars |
employer_contributions_for_social_insurance | Employer contributions for government social insurance, dollars |
adjustment_for_residence | Earnings residents bring home from other areas less those carried out by people commuting in, dollars |
net_earnings_by_place_of_residence | Earnings of residents, wherever they work, net of contributions, dollars |
dividends_interest_rent | Dividends, interest and rent, dollars |
transfer_receipts | Personal current transfer receipts, dollars |
wages_and_salaries | Wages and salaries, by place of work, dollars |
supplements_to_wages | Supplements to wages and salaries, dollars |
employer_pension_and_insurance | Employer contributions for employee pension and insurance funds, dollars |
proprietors_income | Proprietors' income, dollars |
farm_proprietors_income | Farm proprietors' income, dollars |
nonfarm_proprietors_income | Nonfarm proprietors' income, dollars |
income_maintenance_benefits | Income maintenance benefits (SSI, EITC, SNAP and others), dollars |
unemployment_insurance | Unemployment insurance compensation, dollars |
retirement_and_other_transfers | Retirement and other transfers, Social Security and Medicare among them, dollars |
per_capita_net_earnings | Net earnings by place of residence per person, dollars |
per_capita_transfer_receipts | Transfer receipts per person, dollars |
per_capita_income_maintenance | Income maintenance benefits per person, dollars |
per_capita_unemployment_insurance | Unemployment insurance per person, dollars |
per_capita_retirement_and_other | Retirement and other transfers per person, dollars |
per_capita_dividends_interest_rent | Dividends, interest and rent per person, dollars |
jobs | Full- and part-time jobs, wage and salary jobs and proprietors alike |
wage_salary_jobs | Wage and salary jobs |
proprietors_jobs | Proprietors' jobs (the self-employed and partners) |
average_earnings_per_job | Earnings by place of work per job, dollars |
average_wages_per_job | Wages and salaries per wage and salary job, dollars |
dividends | Personal dividend income, dollars |
interest | Personal interest income, dollars |
imputed_interest | Imputed interest receipts, dollars |
monetary_interest | Monetary interest receipts, dollars |
rental_income | Rental income of persons, dollars |
imputed_rent | Imputed rent (of owner-occupied homes), dollars |
monetary_rent | Monetary rent, dollars |
per_capita_dividends | Dividends per person, dollars |
per_capita_interest | Interest per person, dollars |
per_capita_rent | Rent per person, dollars |
transfers_from_governments | Transfer receipts of individuals from governments, dollars |
retirement_disability_benefits | Retirement and disability insurance benefits, dollars |
social_security | Social Security benefits, dollars |
retirement_disability_excl_social_security | Retirement and disability benefits other than Social Security, dollars |
railroad_retirement | Railroad retirement and disability benefits, dollars |
workers_compensation | Workers' compensation, dollars |
other_government_retirement | Other government retirement and disability insurance benefits, dollars |
medical_benefits | Medical benefits, dollars |
medicare | Medicare benefits, dollars |
public_assistance_medical | Public assistance medical care benefits, dollars |
medicaid | Medicaid, dollars |
other_medical_care | Other medical care benefits, dollars |
military_medical_insurance | Military medical insurance benefits, dollars |
ssi | Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits, dollars |
eitc | Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), within income maintenance, dollars |
snap | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), dollars |
other_income_maintenance | Other income maintenance benefits, dollars |
family_assistance | Family assistance, dollars |
other_income_maintenance_excl_family | Other income maintenance excluding family assistance, dollars |
state_unemployment_insurance | State unemployment insurance compensation, dollars |
other_unemployment_insurance | Unemployment compensation other than the states' programs, dollars |
ucfe | Unemployment compensation for Federal civilian employees (UCFE), dollars |
railroad_unemployment | Unemployment compensation for railroad employees, dollars |
ucx | Unemployment compensation for veterans (UCX), dollars |
other_unemployment_compensation | Other unemployment compensation, dollars |
veterans_benefits | Veterans' benefits, dollars |
veterans_pension_disability | Veterans' pension and disability benefits, dollars |
veterans_readjustment | Veterans' readjustment benefits, dollars |
veterans_life_insurance | Veterans' life insurance benefits, dollars |
other_veterans_assistance | Other assistance to veterans, dollars |
education_training_assistance | Education and training assistance, dollars |
other_government_transfers | Other transfer receipts of individuals from governments, dollars |
nonprofit_transfer_receipts | Current transfer receipts of nonprofit institutions, dollars |
nonprofit_receipts_federal | Nonprofits' receipts from the Federal government, dollars |
nonprofit_receipts_state_local | Nonprofits' receipts from state and local governments, dollars |
nonprofit_receipts_business | Nonprofits' receipts from businesses, dollars |
transfers_from_business | Current transfer receipts of individuals from businesses, dollars |
refundable_tax_credits | Refundable tax credits, dollars |
refundable_eitc | Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), as a refundable tax credit, dollars |
additional_child_tax_credit | Additional Child Tax Credit, dollars |
other_refundable_tax_credits | Other refundable tax credits, dollars |
personal_current_taxes | Personal current taxes, dollars |
disposable_personal_income | Disposable personal income: personal income less personal current taxes, dollars |
per_capita_disposable_income | Disposable personal income per person, dollars |
federal_taxes | Personal current taxes paid to the Federal government, dollars |
federal_income_taxes | Federal income taxes net of refunds, dollars |
federal_income_taxes_gross | Federal income taxes before refunds, dollars |
federal_income_tax_refunds | Federal income tax refunds, subtracted, dollars |
state_taxes | Personal current taxes paid to state governments, dollars |
state_income_taxes | State income taxes, dollars |
state_motor_vehicle_licenses | State motor vehicle licenses, dollars |
state_other_taxes | Other state personal taxes, dollars |
local_taxes | Personal current taxes paid to local governments, dollars |
local_income_taxes | Local income taxes, dollars |
local_motor_vehicle_licenses | Local motor vehicle licenses, dollars |
local_other_taxes | Other local personal taxes, dollars |
personal_property_taxes | State and local personal property taxes, dollars |
earnings_inflows | Earnings residents bring home from work in other areas, dollars (1990 on) |
earnings_outflows | Earnings carried out by people who work here and live elsewhere, dollars (1990 on) |
codes | BEA's code for each column it published no figure for ({"gdp": "D"}); null when every figure is published |