First, there are several categories of spending by households that are lumped into the personal
consumption expenditures category in our official GDP statistics that can fairly be counted as investment.
Not exact matches
To pinpoint the average retirement income you would need to live comfortably throughout the U.S., GOBankingRates looked at five factors in all 50 states and the District of Columbia: Per capita spending on groceries, healthcare, gas and fuel, housing and utilities and personal
consumption expenditures not included in the four other
categories.
Consumer Spending on Beverage Alcohol, Consumer Off - and On - Premise
Expenditures (by
category), Price Indices and Average Price for Off - and On - Premise
Consumption (by
category)
To pinpoint the average retirement income you would need to live comfortably throughout the U.S., GOBankingRates looked at five factors in all 50 states and the District of Columbia: Per capita spending on groceries, healthcare, gas and fuel, housing and utilities and personal
consumption expenditures not included in the four other
categories.
The figure below plots the mean monthly student loan payment against the average monthly
expenditure in each major
consumption category.
The largest
categories of monthly
consumption expenditure are housing ($ 1,407), transportation ($ 750) and food ($ 588).