{
  "id": "income-state-context",
  "question": "Did broader statewide dividend and property income rise?",
  "hint": "BEA state measures",
  "answer": "Washington’s broader BEA personal dividend income rose from $65.72 billion in 2023 to $68.83 billion in 2024, up 4.73%.",
  "period": "Annual dividends: 2023-2024; quarterly combined measure: 2026 Q1",
  "limit": "Different definitions and populations. BEA and ACS do not establish persistence or reversal of the exact IRS ordinary or qualified dividend series after TY2023. BEA personal dividends include imputed pension-plan receipts. Quarterly values are seasonally adjusted annual rates, not quarterly flows.",
  "status": "reviewed",
  "children": [],
  "related": [
    "income-county-context",
    "income-household-context"
  ],
  "findings": [
    {
      "id": "income-finding-bea-state-dividends",
      "title": "The broader state dividend concept increased",
      "text": "Washington BEA personal dividend income increased 4.73% from 2023 to 2024.",
      "limits": [
        "No ordinary-versus-qualified split, AGI classes or return counts."
      ],
      "source_url": "https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/SAINC.zip"
    },
    {
      "id": "income-finding-bea-quarterly",
      "title": "Newer combined income remained higher",
      "text": "Washington dividends, interest and rent reached $158.85 billion at a seasonally adjusted annual rate in 2026 Q1, 1.94% above 2025 Q1.",
      "limits": [
        "The measure combines three components and does not identify dividend-only movement.",
        "SAAR is an annualized rate, not money received during one quarter."
      ],
      "source_url": "https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/SQINC.zip"
    }
  ],
  "plots": [
    {
      "id": "income-plot-current-context",
      "title": "Newer income context from BEA and ACS",
      "caption": "Four panels retain the reviewed measures and uncertainty. BEA state dividends use a broader definition; quarterly combined income is an annualized rate. ACS dollars use each survey year’s dollar basis, and the bars show 90% margins of error. None continues the exact IRS series.",
      "alt": "Four panels of Washington BEA annual dividends, quarterly combined dividends interest and rent, ACS combined-income estimates, and household counts. ACS estimates include 90 percent margins of error.",
      "image_url": "/research/washington-income/2026-09-21/charts/current-context-penner-strategy.svg",
      "download_url": "/research/washington-income/2026-09-21/charts/current-context-penner-strategy.svg",
      "data_url": "/research/washington-income/2026-09-21/data/current-context-series.csv",
      "record_url": "/research/washington-income/2026-09-21/nodes/income-newer-context/index.html"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "BEA annual state personal income tables",
      "url": "https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/SAINC.zip"
    },
    {
      "label": "BEA quarterly state personal income tables",
      "url": "https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/SQINC.zip"
    },
    {
      "label": "BEA County Personal Income Concepts and Methods",
      "url": "https://www.bea.gov/system/files/methodologies/BEA-County-Personal-Income-Concepts-and-Methods.pdf"
    }
  ],
  "record_url": "/research/washington-income/2026-09-21/nodes/income-state-context/index.html",
  "as_of_date": "2026-09-21",
  "methods": "BEA SAINC40 annual personal dividends and SQINC4 quarterly combined property income, using retained source vintages.",
  "lineage_ids": [
    "N4b-state-context"
  ],
  "publication_state": "prepared",
  "record_json_url": "/research/washington-income/2026-09-21/nodes/income-state-context/record.json"
}