To enable comparisons, BEA estimates with census data, BEA often publishes its State estimates aggregated to Census divisions. Earnings are composed of wages and salaries, other labor income, and proprietors' income. The industrial earnings data are classified by place of work. Dividends, interest, rent, and transfer payments are added to the net earnings to yield the personal income of the residents of a given area. The per capita personal income estimates can be misleading in areas where population changes rapidly.
Population is measured at midyear, whereas income is measured as a flow over the year.
Totals by major industry. These data really comprise a count of jobs, not the number of employed persons. People holding multiple jobs, including part-time jobs, are counted once for each job. Transfer Payments Data on payments to persons, generally in monetary form, for which they do not render current services. As a component of personal income, they are payments by government and business to individuals and nonprofit institutions.