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Minnesota Per Capita Personal Income, 2011

Per capita income in 2011 is $43,671.Per capita personal income in Minnesota, 2001 to 2011

"Constant" dollars are adjusted for inflation using the consumer price index. "Actual" dollars are not adjusted for inflation. Minnesota Government in Brief graphs typically adjust previous years' amounts into 2011 dollars, since readers are more immediately familiar with what a dollar can purchase today than with what a dollar could have purchased five, ten, or more years ago. The inflation adjustment shows that $1 in 2011 could purchase the same amount of goods and services as $1.30 in 2001.

Yearly breakdown of per capita personal income: 2001-2011

Per capita personal income Actual dollars Constant 2011 dollars
2001 $33,380 41,741
2002 33,971 41,818
2003 35,013 42,141
2004 36,604 42,912
2005 37,269 42,261
2006 39,353 43,229
2007 41,166 43,969
2008 42,768 43,989
2009 41,232 42,562
2010 42,409 43,045
2011 43,671 43,671

Source: Minnesota Management and Budget

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Originally published January 2011.