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Personal Saving Rate

U.S. personal saving as a share of disposable income, %

4.1% in Aug 2026the lowest since 2022−1.0 pp since Aug 2016
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U.S. recessionsShades the months the NBER dates as recession. U.S. charts only.5-year rangeThe highest and lowest readings of the last five years, as a band. One-series charts only.High and lowMarks the highest and lowest readings in the window shown.
Reading overdue·Data to Aug 2026

Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.

Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 30 days

Dashed: the projection from the latest reading. Shaded: the range about two in three outcomes land in. A projection, not a promise.

The share of after-tax income households keep rather than spend. It jumps in sharp downturns, when spending stops and support payments arrive, and falls when households draw down savings.

What this chart reads

Sources

Personal Savings Rate. Source: Published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis as FRED series PSAVERT. Palanor pulls this series from the FRED API nightly.

Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.

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