Kentucky · NAICS 23 · Annual, 2025

Construction in Kentucky

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 23 in Kentucky, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Construction (NAICS 23) employed about 92,900 people in Kentucky across roughly 12,065 establishments, with average annual pay of $74,240.

Employment in Construction in Kentucky grew 19.1% from 2020 to 2025. 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.

  • 92,900Employment, 2025
  • 12,065Establishments
  • $74,240Avg. annual pay
  • 4.7%Share of Kentucky jobs
  • 0.86Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Construction in Kentucky, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 83,400 to 92,900.025K50K75K100K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 83,400; 2005 84,400; 2006 83,300; 2007 85,200; 2008 84,400; 2009 73,800; 2010 68,000; 2011 67,700; 2012 67,400; 2013 68,100; 2014 72,900; 2015 75,800; 2016 76,900; 2017 77,500; 2018 78,100; 2019 80,600; 2020 78,100; 2021 79,600; 2022 83,600; 2023 89,900; 2024 93,600; 2025 92,900.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202592,93412,065$74,239 0.7%pub.
202493,62511,926$73,310 4.1%pub.
202389,94311,473$69,467 7.6%pub.
202283,55810,853$65,142 5.0%pub.
202179,60910,308$59,567 2.0%pub.
202078,0599,840$58,450 3.1%pub.
201980,5979,525$55,570 3.3%pub.
201878,0559,474$53,926 0.8%pub.
201777,4539,347$53,161 0.7%pub.
201676,9009,592$51,714 1.4%pub.

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

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 3 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of constructionLQSource
236Construction of Buildings19,53621.0%0.82pub.
237Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction14,60215.7%0.84pub.
238Specialty Trade Contractors58,79563.3%0.88pub.

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.

Notes

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Construction in Kentucky, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for construction 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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