The average household spent 87.9% of what it kept after tax (2023)
Average household spending was $77,280 in 2023, against $87,869 of income after taxes. That leaves $10,589 a year unspent. Civic Forecast calculation from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey, both halves the same year. CE under-reports income, so this runs high; it is an average across all households.
Induced by API Automations for Civic Forecast from federal open data. Each finding names the datasets it was computed from. How this is calculated.