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Personal income in Alaska
$60.0B
as of January 2026 · quarterly · annualized rate
▲ 0.3% vs prior · ▲ 2.9% vs a year earlier
Series personal_income.ak.saar
History since 1950
Range
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Recent values
| Date | Personal income |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-01 | $60.0B |
| 2025-10-01 | $59.8B |
| 2025-07-01 | $59.2B |
| 2025-04-01 | $58.9B |
| 2025-01-01 | $58.3B |
| 2024-10-01 | $57.4B |
| 2024-07-01 | $56.8B |
| 2024-04-01 | $56.1B |
| 2024-01-01 | $55.4B |
| 2023-10-01 | $54.5B |
| 2023-07-01 | $53.9B |
| 2023-04-01 | $53.0B |
| 2023-01-01 | $51.8B |
| 2022-10-01 | $51.9B |
| 2022-07-01 | $51.1B |
| 2022-04-01 | $50.5B |
| 2022-01-01 | $49.6B |
| 2021-10-01 | $48.2B |
| 2021-07-01 | $47.5B |
| 2021-04-01 | $47.5B |
| 2021-01-01 | $50.1B |
| 2020-10-01 | $45.1B |
| 2020-07-01 | $45.0B |
| 2020-04-01 | $47.3B |
About this data
What Alaskans earn from all sources — wages, proprietors' income, dividends/interest/rent, and transfers — the best single measure of household purchasing power. Statewide quarterly (SQINC1) back to 1948, plus annual borough/census-area detail (CAINC1) that is the *only* comprehensive income measure for rural Alaska. Alaska-specific hook: the Permanent Fund Dividend lands in Q4 and visibly bumps the transfer component every year.
Known issues & gotchas
- Endpoint:
https://apps.bea.gov/api/data/?UserID={BEA_API_KEY}&method=GetData&datasetname=Regional&TableName=SQINC1&LineCode=1&GeoFips=02000&Year=ALL&ResultFormat=json. Borough annual:TableName=CAINC1&GeoFips=COUNTY&LineCode=1—GeoFips=COUNTYwith an AK state filter isn't supported directly; either requestGeoFips=02000plus each borough FIPS (02013…02290), or fetch all counties and filter to02***. Confirm the cheapest pattern at build. - Same API mechanics as bea_gdp (shared connector code): one LineCode per request, comma-formatted string
DataValue("59,200.0"), errors delivered inside HTTP-200 bodies,TimePeriodlike2025Q3(quarterly) or2024(annual). - Units differ by table: SQINC1 personal income is millions of dollars SAAR; CAINC1 county personal income is thousands of dollars; per capita is plain dollars in both. Unit mixups here are exactly the parse disaster the bounds exist to catch.
- Alaska borough boundary changes (e.g., Chugach/Copper River split of Valdez–Cordova in 2019) mean borough FIPS appear/disappear mid-history; don't hard-fail on a changing geo set.
- The Q4 PFD spike is real data, not an anomaly — change limits must tolera