Insights from KAM’s 2025 Wage & Workforce Study
We recently released our annual Wage & Workforce Study report, which gives an up-to-date snapshot of the manufacturing workplace in Kentucky. What’s new this yearTypically, we’ve asked manufacturers to share what their starting wages are for production jobs. For 2025, we added a question about wages in those same jobs for someone with five years […]
Kentucky’s Future in Aerospace

NASA recently analyzed the U.S. aerospace industry workforce and discovered that there will be a shortage of approximately one million workers by 2030. The “aerospace industry” is a term that may be new to many folks who are not already involved. It includes jobs ranging in complexity from operating a metal stamping machine, to programing […]