Kentucky · SOC 39-0000 · Annual, 2025
Personal care and service occupations in Kentucky
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 39-0000 in Kentucky, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 35,700 people in Kentucky worked in personal care and service occupations (SOC 39-0000), with an average annual wage of $37,530.
Employment in personal care and service occupations in Kentucky grew 11.7% from 2020 to 2025. The average wage in this occupation group is 40.0% below the all-occupations average in Kentucky. Employment fell 40.0% from 2017 to 2020 and has since recovered 17.6% of that loss. Quarterly values, full occupation 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.
- 35,700Employment, 2025
- $37,530Mean annual wage
- 1.8%Share of Kentucky jobs
- 0.86Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 45,700; 2005 46,500; 2006 47,200; 2007 48,100; 2008 49,000; 2009 48,900; 2010 49,600; 2011 50,500; 2012 51,200; 2013 51,400; 2014 50,600; 2015 51,100; 2016 52,100; 2017 53,200; 2018 48,400; 2019 43,100; 2020 31,900; 2021 34,000; 2022 36,900; 2023 36,800; 2024 35,300; 2025 35,700.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35,685 | $37,525 | 1.1% |
| 2024 | 35,307 | $36,365 | 4.2% |
| 2023 | 36,845 | $34,378 | 0.1% |
| 2022 | 36,866 | $32,703 | 8.6% |
| 2021 | 33,959 | $30,231 | 6.3% |
| 2020 | 31,941 | $30,155 | 25.9% |
| 2019 | 43,110 | $28,657 | 10.9% |
| 2018 | 48,397 | $28,989 | 9.0% |
| 2017 | 53,201 | $28,785 | 2.2% |
| 2016 | 52,058 | $27,359 | 1.8% |
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. Every occupation value is a DTG estimate: there is no published county or state census of occupations to report, so no value here is marked as published or estimated, and none carries a reliability score. Quarterly figures, county figures, detailed occupations and projected years are in the app.
How these figures are built
DTG’s industry employment fixes how many jobs there are in each industry in the state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ national industry-occupation matrix says how each industry is staffed, and the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey says how many people work in each occupation in the area and what they earn. DTG makes the three agree, so occupation employment sums to the same totals as industry employment. Employment is the annual average; the mean annual wage is the year’s total occupation wages divided by that average employment. The construction is described in full on the occupation data page.
Notes
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Personal care and service occupations in Kentucky, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for personal care and service occupations in Kentucky. A free account shows every detailed occupation in the group, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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