Kentucky · NAICS 486 · Annual, 2025
Pipeline Transportation in Kentucky
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 486 in Kentucky, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Pipeline Transportation (NAICS 486) employed about 890 people in Kentucky across roughly 51 establishments, with average annual pay of $132,900.
Employment in Pipeline Transportation in Kentucky declined 10.1% from 2004 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 112.4% 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.
- 890Employment, 2025
- 51Establishments
- $132,900Avg. annual pay
- 0.0%Share of Kentucky jobs
- 1.22Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 990; 2005 990; 2006 990; 2007 950; 2008 990; 2009 1,000; 2010 920; 2011 910; 2012 910; 2013 900; 2014 910; 2015 930; 2016 900; 2017 840; 2018 850; 2019 860; 2020 870; 2021 820; 2022 810; 2023 840; 2024 870; 2025 890.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 890 | 51 | $132,904 | 2.0% | pub. |
| 2024 | 872 | 51 | $127,863 | 4.0% | pub. |
| 2023 | 839 | 51 | $122,496 | 3.2% | pub. |
| 2022 | 813 | 50 | $123,477 | 0.9% | pub. |
| 2021 | 821 | 48 | $118,779 | 5.2% | pub. |
| 2020 | 866 | 47 | $117,226 | 0.2% | pub. |
| 2019 | 864 | 45 | $110,401 | 1.3% | pub. |
| 2018 | 853 | 63 | $114,287 | 1.7% | pub. |
| 2017 | 839 | 61 | $109,468 | 6.8% | pub. |
| 2016 | 900 | 71 | $107,384 | 3.2% | 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.
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Pipeline Transportation in Kentucky, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for pipeline transportation 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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