Kentucky · NAICS 336 · Annual, 2025
Transportation Equipment Manufacturing in Kentucky
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 336 in Kentucky, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Transportation Equipment Manufacturing (NAICS 336) employed about 63,600 people in Kentucky across roughly 475 establishments, with average annual pay of $82,420.
Employment in Transportation Equipment Manufacturing in Kentucky declined 5.3% from 2024 to 2025. The industry is 2.8× as concentrated in Kentucky as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 2.80). 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.
- 63,600Employment, 2025
- 475Establishments
- $82,420Avg. annual pay
- 3.2%Share of Kentucky jobs
- 2.80Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 57,100; 2005 59,100; 2006 58,900; 2007 55,100; 2008 49,800; 2009 41,500; 2010 40,900; 2011 42,300; 2012 49,600; 2013 53,000; 2014 55,900; 2015 60,100; 2016 65,500; 2017 66,800; 2018 66,500; 2019 65,300; 2020 59,500; 2021 61,300; 2022 63,500; 2023 66,300; 2024 67,100; 2025 63,600.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63,554 | 475 | $82,420 | 5.3% | pub. |
| 2024 | 67,111 | 465 | $79,347 | 1.2% | pub. |
| 2023 | 66,318 | 434 | $73,428 | 4.4% | pub. |
| 2022 | 63,529 | 390 | $69,430 | 3.7% | pub. |
| 2021 | 61,255 | 340 | $63,418 | 2.9% | pub. |
| 2020 | 59,498 | 315 | $64,749 | 8.9% | pub. |
| 2019 | 65,342 | 296 | $66,649 | 1.8% | pub. |
| 2018 | 66,540 | 290 | $62,442 | 0.4% | pub. |
| 2017 | 66,807 | 281 | $61,095 | 1.9% | pub. |
| 2016 | 65,541 | 286 | $61,029 | 9.1% | pub. |
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
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.
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Transportation Equipment Manufacturing in Kentucky, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for transportation equipment manufacturing 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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