Jefferson County · Kentucky
Louisville, KY jobs and wages
Who works here, what they earn, and which industries carry the local economy — Census ACS estimates for the city itself, not the wider metro.
Quick answer
Workers in Louisville, KY earn a median of $41,125 a year, 8% below the national median of $44,587. Unemployment is 5% against 5.2% nationally, and education, health care & social assistance is the largest employer at 23% of jobs.
- Median earnings
- $41,125#56 of 94 metros
- Unemployment rate
- 5%US 5.2%
- Labor force participation
- 65.7%US 63.5%
- People employed
- 311,836Civilian employed, age 16+
What Louisville does for a living
Share of the civilian employed population by industry, largest first.
- Education, health care & social assistance23%
- Manufacturing12.9%
- Retail trade10.8%
- Professional, scientific & management10.1%
- Transportation, warehousing & utilities9.9%
- Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation & food8.5%
- Finance, insurance & real estate7.5%
- Construction5.1%
- Other services, except public administration4.9%
- Public administration2.9%
- Wholesale trade2.5%
- Information1.6%
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting & mining0.2%
Related data for Louisville
Earnings only mean something next to what things cost.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates
Tables B23025, B20002 and C24030, 2019-2023 ACS 5-year. Industry shares combine the male and female columns of C24030 and are rounded, so they may not total exactly 100%.