Kentucky · SOC 29-0000 · Annual, 2025
Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations in Kentucky
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 29-0000 in Kentucky, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 144,000 people in Kentucky worked in healthcare practitioners and technical occupations (SOC 29-0000), with an average annual wage of $102,880.
Employment in healthcare practitioners and technical occupations in Kentucky grew 13.5% from 2020 to 2025. The average wage in this occupation group is 64.4% above the all-occupations average in Kentucky. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 144,000. 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.
- 144,000Employment, 2025
- $102,880Mean annual wage
- 7.2%Share of Kentucky jobs
- 1.15Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 103,400; 2005 105,600; 2006 108,400; 2007 110,900; 2008 112,200; 2009 112,900; 2010 115,000; 2011 117,000; 2012 119,000; 2013 118,800; 2014 118,500; 2015 120,300; 2016 122,900; 2017 124,900; 2018 126,300; 2019 128,300; 2020 126,900; 2021 132,100; 2022 135,800; 2023 139,400; 2024 142,200; 2025 144,000.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 143,985 | $102,878 | 1.3% |
| 2024 | 142,198 | $98,404 | 2.0% |
| 2023 | 139,357 | $95,662 | 2.6% |
| 2022 | 135,837 | $91,488 | 2.8% |
| 2021 | 132,127 | $85,529 | 4.2% |
| 2020 | 126,860 | $80,849 | 1.1% |
| 2019 | 128,340 | $77,974 | 1.6% |
| 2018 | 126,283 | $77,970 | 1.1% |
| 2017 | 124,925 | $76,248 | 1.7% |
| 2016 | 122,850 | $74,690 | 2.1% |
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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Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations in Kentucky, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for healthcare practitioners and technical 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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