Kentucky · NAICS 51 · Annual, 2025

Information in Kentucky

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 51 in Kentucky, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Information (NAICS 51) employed about 23,400 people in Kentucky across roughly 4,491 establishments, with average annual pay of $78,250.

Employment in Information in Kentucky declined 25.1% from 2004 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Kentucky than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.61). 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.

  • 23,400Employment, 2025
  • 4,491Establishments
  • $78,250Avg. annual pay
  • 1.2%Share of Kentucky jobs
  • 0.61Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Information in Kentucky, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 31,200 to 23,400.010K20K30K40K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 31,200; 2005 31,400; 2006 32,000; 2007 32,400; 2008 32,300; 2009 29,700; 2010 28,800; 2011 29,400; 2012 29,200; 2013 29,000; 2014 29,100; 2015 27,900; 2016 25,500; 2017 25,600; 2018 24,900; 2019 24,600; 2020 23,000; 2021 23,400; 2022 24,400; 2023 25,400; 2024 23,600; 2025 23,400.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202523,3844,491$78,246 1.1%pub.
202423,6324,272$73,310 6.9%pub.
202325,3853,946$71,270 4.3%pub.
202224,3503,402$68,246 4.1%pub.
202123,3882,730$62,477 1.8%pub.
202022,9622,257$59,433 6.5%pub.
201924,5552,075$54,910 1.2%pub.
201824,8591,934$51,414 2.8%pub.
201725,5701,844$51,625 0.1%pub.
201625,5391,896$49,832 8.6%pub.

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

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 6 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of informationLQSource
512Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries1,8137.8%0.39pub.
513Publishing Industries4,39518.8%0.38pub.
516Broadcasting and Content Providers2,61011.2%0.60pub.
517Telecommunications7,88533.7%1.04est. · 1.00
518Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services3,66915.7%0.59est. · 1.00
519Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services3,01312.9%0.76pub.

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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Information in Kentucky, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for information 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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