Kentucky · NAICS 54 · Annual, 2025

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services in Kentucky

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 54 in Kentucky, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (NAICS 54) employed about 89,500 people in Kentucky across roughly 22,405 establishments, with average annual pay of $88,800.

Employment in Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services in Kentucky grew 14.5% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Kentucky than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.64). Average pay in the industry is 41.9% above the all-industries average in Kentucky. 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.

  • 89,500Employment, 2025
  • 22,405Establishments
  • $88,800Avg. annual pay
  • 4.5%Share of Kentucky jobs
  • 0.64Location quotient

The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 1.00. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services in Kentucky, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 58,100 to 89,500.025K50K75K100K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 58,100; 2005 61,200; 2006 63,200; 2007 66,000; 2008 69,500; 2009 70,600; 2010 70,400; 2011 70,500; 2012 69,100; 2013 70,900; 2014 73,000; 2015 74,500; 2016 75,800; 2017 75,100; 2018 77,600; 2019 78,400; 2020 78,100; 2021 81,800; 2022 86,400; 2023 88,100; 2024 89,600; 2025 89,500.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202589,45322,405$88,799 0.2%est. · 1.00
202489,59422,016$85,559 1.7%est. · 1.00
202388,07920,658$81,820 2.0%est. · 1.00
202286,37418,694$77,437 5.6%est. · 1.00
202181,76716,340$73,144 4.7%est. · 1.00
202078,10114,483$70,773 0.4%est. · 1.00
201978,41513,387$67,023 1.1%est. · 1.00
201877,58913,041$64,606 3.3%est. · 1.00
201775,12012,790$63,295 0.9%pub.
201675,81313,110$61,761 1.8%est. · 1.00

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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.

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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Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services in Kentucky, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for professional, scientific, and technical services 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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