Kentucky · NAICS 48-49 · Annual, 2025

Transportation and Warehousing in Kentucky

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 48-49 in Kentucky, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Transportation and Warehousing (NAICS 48-49) employed about 135,200 people in Kentucky across roughly 5,312 establishments, with average annual pay of $70,160.

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Kentucky grew 10.6% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.4× as concentrated in Kentucky as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.39). 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.

  • 135,200Employment, 2025
  • 5,312Establishments
  • $70,160Avg. annual pay
  • 6.8%Share of Kentucky jobs
  • 1.39Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Kentucky, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 88,400 to 135,200.050K100K150K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 88,400; 2005 91,600; 2006 93,300; 2007 96,000; 2008 95,300; 2009 89,200; 2010 88,800; 2011 91,400; 2012 92,400; 2013 92,000; 2014 96,200; 2015 101,200; 2016 106,400; 2017 109,700; 2018 114,200; 2019 118,700; 2020 122,200; 2021 131,300; 2022 139,300; 2023 138,900; 2024 137,000; 2025 135,200.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025135,1665,312$70,164 1.3%pub.
2024136,9515,286$67,379 1.4%pub.
2023138,8725,175$64,558 0.3%pub.
2022139,3354,907$61,673 6.1%pub.
2021131,2914,619$59,288 7.4%pub.
2020122,2134,388$57,189 2.9%pub.
2019118,7204,255$55,082 3.9%pub.
2018114,2394,175$54,120 4.2%pub.
2017109,6584,136$52,602 3.1%pub.
2016106,3874,276$50,965 5.1%pub.

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 11 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of transportation and warehousingLQSource
481Air Transportation5,0693.8%0.69pub.
482Rail Transportation250.0%1.33est. · 0.51
483Water Transportation3,1492.3%3.48pub.
484Truck Transportation23,64117.5%1.25pub.
485Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation3,7052.7%0.34pub.
486Pipeline Transportation8900.7%1.22pub.
487Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation1490.1%0.37est. · 0.80
488Support Activities for Transportation13,65510.1%1.19est. · 1.00
491Postal Service7,7845.8%1.01est. · 0.99
492Couriers and Messengers38,78528.7%2.70pub.
493Warehousing and Storage38,31428.3%1.57est. · 1.00

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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.

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Transportation and Warehousing in Kentucky, quarterly, at full depth

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