Personal Income: release dates, results and history
Personal Income last printed 0.2 on Wed, Sep 30, 2026 against a 0.4 consensus forecast and a 0.4 prior, a -1.11 standard-deviation surprise. The next release is Thursday, October 29, 2026 at 8:30 AM ET. Captured live by Helious the moment it printed.
Personal income is what households earned before they spent any of it, and that spending is two-thirds of GDP. The line to read inside the report is wages and salaries, the cleanest monthly measure of labor earnings. Swings in transfers and dividends can push the headline around. Put income next to outlays and you get the savings rate, which is how the market judges how much runway the consumer has left.
Printed below forecast. That gap is 1.11 times the size of a normal gap for this indicator.
The trend
OFFICIAL SERIES · LAST 36 OBSERVATIONS · % M/M
+0.84%0-0.32%
2023-092026-08
The official published series at its current vintage, revisions included, so the newest point can differ from the number as first printed. The release-by-release history, with the consensus forecast and standard-deviation surprise on every row, comes through the Helious API.
How it moves Treasuries
An income beat leans mildly bearish Treasuries because it reads as a stronger consumer. The PCE inflation figures in the same release usually own the reaction anyway. A sagging savings rate warns that spending is outrunning earnings. See it scored live on the Helious desk,
or read how the standard-deviation surprise is computed.
The 3 most recent prints from the desk's live capture, which began in July 2026, so what you see here is a sample rather than the whole record. Every row links the print page published the moment that number landed, and the full graded history is served by the API.
Official series history
PERIOD
VALUE (% M/M)
PRIOR
+0.24%
+0.29%
+0.29%
+0.23%
+0.23%
+0.73%
+0.73%
+0.11%
+0.11%
+0.66%
+0.66%
+0.13%
+0.13%
+0.6%
+0.6%
+0.31%
These are the most recent official
rows, and the chart above draws the longer series behind them. The desk-captured prints higher up
the page carry the consensus forecast and the standard-deviation surprise as they stood the moment
each number landed.
FAQ
What was the latest Personal Income print?
Personal Income last printed 0.2 on Wed, Sep 30, 2026 against a 0.4 consensus forecast and a 0.4 prior, a -1.11 standard-deviation surprise. The next release is Thursday, October 29, 2026 at 8:30 AM ET. Captured live by Helious the moment it printed.
When is the next Personal Income release?
The next Personal Income release is Thursday, October 29, 2026 at 8:30 AM ET. Helious posts the print, the surprise against consensus and a verdict the second it lands.
Was the latest Personal Income print a beat or a miss?
It printed below the consensus forecast: 0.2 against 0.4, a -1.11 standard-deviation surprise. The standard deviation is measured against this indicator's own history of consensus misses, so the same gap means more on a series that rarely surprises.
