West Coast Outpaces Nation in Personal Income Growth

Coastal states, led by the Far West, outpaced the nation in non-farm personal income growth in the second quarter of 1989, the Commerce Department said today.

The interior states advanced more slowly than the U.S. average of 8.4%.

The department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis said the Far West’s non-farm income grew 9.6% in April, May and June, bolstered by strength in construction and manufacturing, particularly aircraft production--by Boeing in Washington state and Douglas Aircraft in California.

The growth rate in the Far West--which also includes Oregon and the national income growth leader, Nevada--was 1.2 percentage point above the U.S. average, the bureau said.

In each of the other coastal regions, however, growth was only somewhat above the national average--up 8.7% in the Southeast, 8.6% in New England and 8.5% Mid-Atlantic.