Kentucky · NAICS 11 · Annual, 2025

Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting in Kentucky

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 11 in Kentucky, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting (NAICS 11) employed about 9,310 people in Kentucky across roughly 1,502 establishments, with average annual pay of $51,520.

Employment in Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting in Kentucky grew 5.4% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Kentucky than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.59). Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 9,310. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Kentucky are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 9,310Employment, 2025
  • 1,502Establishments
  • $51,520Avg. annual pay
  • 0.5%Share of Kentucky jobs
  • 0.59Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting in Kentucky, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 7,290 to 9,310.02.5K5K7.5K10K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 7,290; 2005 7,360; 2006 7,660; 2007 7,870; 2008 8,120; 2009 7,940; 2010 7,680; 2011 7,480; 2012 7,520; 2013 7,820; 2014 8,120; 2015 8,230; 2016 8,360; 2017 8,360; 2018 8,550; 2019 8,950; 2020 8,830; 2021 9,060; 2022 9,000; 2023 9,060; 2024 9,090; 2025 9,310.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
20259,3081,502$51,525 2.4%pub.
20249,0921,488$49,626 0.3%pub.
20239,0631,429$48,723 0.7%pub.
20228,9971,348$46,919 0.7%pub.
20219,0601,261$45,286 2.6%pub.
20208,8281,187$42,758 1.4%pub.
20198,9491,116$40,777 4.7%pub.
20188,5521,102$38,495 2.3%pub.
20178,3601,098$36,749 0.0%pub.
20168,3581,106$35,585 1.6%pub.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 5 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of agriculture, forestry, fishing and huntingLQSource
111Crop Production2,43326.1%0.36pub.
112Animal Production and Aquaculture3,18734.2%0.92pub.
113Forestry and Logging2372.5%0.37est. · 0.99
114Fishing, Hunting and Trapping270.3%0.28est. · 0.98
115Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry3,42436.8%0.70pub.

Where these numbers come from

Reading these figures

The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.

How this figure was built

Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

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Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting in Kentucky, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting in Kentucky. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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