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Northern Kentucky Overview The Northern Kentucky region is comprised of Boone, Kenton, and Campbell Counties and is a key part of the larger Cincinnati MSA. Home to the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, Northern Kentucky offers aviation and companies access to four active runways; proximity to the DHL North America super-hub, Amazon Air cargo hub, and GE Aviation’s global headquarters; manufacturing expertise through companies like Landing Systems and Polymers & Composites; and a robust supply chain of chemical, plastics, composites, and metal manufacturing. Connect with us and we will connect you throughout Cincinnati and beyond.

Fastest growing # freight & cargo airport in North America 1 Source: CVG Airport Major Employers Manufacturing MRO Bodycote FEAM Aero NKY Aviation and Celanese GE On Wing Support Aerospace Cluster Fives Machining Systems Commercial Meggitt Polymers & Composites Air MRO Meyer Tool Alaska Airlines 7% Allegiant Freight Commercial American Airlines Freight/Distribution 22% Delta 35+ 37% Atlas Air Aviation and Delta Private Jets Amazon Air Aerospace Frontier Operations DHL North America Super-Hub Southwest

Manufacturing SunCountry Airlines United 34%

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Workforce Overview With a labor shed of over 1 million people and more than 13,000 SOAR people currently employed the aviation and aerospace sector Southwest Ohio and Northern Kentucky has a strong core of both professional and Northern Kentucky production workers. The talent pipeline features more than 4,000 Aerospace Region engineering graduates per year within 100 miles and rapidly growing advanced manufacturing technician programs at Gateway Community The Southwest Ohio & Northern & Technical College. Kentucky Aerospace Region (SOAR) is Engineers one of 12 federally-designated Transportation and manufacturing communities by the U.S. Material Moving

Department of Commerce. This Sales designation gives preferential status on a number of federal grants, a point of contact within the federal government 13,000+ to help navigate grant opportunities, current employment and the ability to brand the Greater Installation, Business and Cincinnati/Dayton region as center of Maintenance, and Financial Ops Repair U.S. Aerospace Manufacturing. Assemblers and Computer and IT Fabricators Metal and Plastic The goal of the SOAR is to be viewed by Workers the aerospace manufacturing industry Source: JobsEQ, Q3 2020 as the place to manufacture parts and Labor Cost Comparison engines globally and to bring new Region Avg. Annual Wage investments by aircraft manufacturers Northern Kentucky $78,100 Recent Announcements and their supply chain to the region. Amazon Air Hub Nashville $81,000 $1.5B | 2,000+ jobs Today more than 64 aerospace Indianapolis $90,400 Atlas Air companies employ almost 12,000 $34.1M | 593 jobs workers in the region. SOAR is in the Dallas $102,800 DHL Express (USA) top-third nationally across 23 of the 25 $108M | 81 jobs Houston $105,100 industries that make up aerospace Meggitt supply chains, and across these Chicago $109,100 $11.8M | 220 jobs aerospace supply chains, employs 116,000 manufacturing workers. Orlando $111,400 Fives Machining Systems $1.7M | 20 jobs Seattle $139,400

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