Kentucky · NAICS 721 · Annual, 2025

Accommodation in Kentucky

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 721 in Kentucky, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Accommodation (NAICS 721) employed about 15,400 people in Kentucky across roughly 1,116 establishments, with average annual pay of $31,380.

Employment in Accommodation in Kentucky grew 35.5% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Kentucky than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.60). Average pay in the industry is 49.8% below 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.

  • 15,400Employment, 2025
  • 1,116Establishments
  • $31,380Avg. annual pay
  • 0.8%Share of Kentucky jobs
  • 0.60Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Accommodation in Kentucky, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 15,500 to 15,400.05K10K15K20K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 15,500; 2005 15,700; 2006 15,700; 2007 16,100; 2008 15,500; 2009 14,100; 2010 13,800; 2011 13,800; 2012 13,700; 2013 14,000; 2014 14,200; 2015 14,600; 2016 15,000; 2017 15,500; 2018 15,800; 2019 16,200; 2020 11,300; 2021 12,300; 2022 14,100; 2023 15,100; 2024 15,500; 2025 15,400.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202515,3581,116$31,382 0.7%pub.
202415,4591,109$30,642 2.4%pub.
202315,1041,061$29,160 7.2%pub.
202214,0931,002$27,593 14.6%pub.
202112,299956$24,604 8.5%pub.
202011,332926$23,434 30.0%pub.
201916,192899$23,560 2.6%pub.
201815,784892$22,588 1.8%pub.
201715,505882$22,609 3.7%pub.
201614,951871$21,414 2.4%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.

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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Accommodation in Kentucky, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for accommodation 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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