State labor market
South Dakota labor market
Current statewide hiring activity plus occupation-level employment and pay for South Dakota. OEWS answers what occupations pay and how many workers BLS estimates are employed; the postings measures show more current statewide hiring activity.
Current statewide signal
South Dakota hiring snapshot
Indeed job-postings measures across all occupations in South Dakota.
Indeed job postings only. Postings are not a count of all vacancies or hires, Indeed does not cover the whole labor market, and this is statewide activity across all occupations, not an occupation health score. Each series is seasonally adjusted and indexed to its own February 1, 2020 level, so a higher index does not mean more jobs than another state. Source: Indeed Hiring Lab · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved Sep 26, 2026. JobMarketHealth calculates the displayed changes and differences.
Occupations & pay
Where South Dakota workers are employed
The eight largest occupations in our tracked OEWS catalog, by BLS estimated employment. These are estimated jobs held, not current openings or a count of unique people.
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks
10,200estimated employmentPay examples
Selected occupation pay examples
The same familiar occupations on every state page. Each U.S. figure uses the same measure (annual or hourly) as the South Dakota figure beside it.
- Registered nurses$78,060/yr South Dakota median annualU.S. $97,550/yr
- Software developers$96,310/yr South Dakota median annualU.S. $135,980/yr
- Electricians$61,390/yr South Dakota median annualU.S. $63,190/yr
- Accountants and auditors$78,880/yr South Dakota median annualU.S. $83,680/yr
- Elementary school teachers, except special education$50,130/yr South Dakota median annualU.S. $63,970/yr
- Marketing managers$167,750/yr South Dakota median annualU.S. $166,790/yr
Pay compared with the U.S.
How South Dakota occupation pay differs
Up to 5 occupations per side with at least 1,000 estimated South Dakota workers and published state and U.S. median annual wages, ordered by the largest percentage gap. Nominal wages, not adjusted for cost of living; not a demand or overall market ranking, and not a test of statistical significance.
Higher median than U.S.
- General and operations managers$137,400/yr state median · 4,280 workers+29.9%vs. U.S. $105,770/yr
- Parts salespersons$45,370/yr state median · 2,100 workers+17.4%vs. U.S. $38,630/yr
- First-line supervisors of retail sales workers$56,680/yr state median · 3,660 workers+16.8%vs. U.S. $48,520/yr
- Preschool teachers, except special education$44,500/yr state median · 1,470 workers+16.7%vs. U.S. $38,140/yr
- Driver/sales workers$45,050/yr state median · 1,050 workers+16.2%vs. U.S. $38,770/yr
Lower median than U.S.
- Lawyers$102,040/yr state median · 1,360 workers-36.1%vs. U.S. $159,670/yr
- Substitute teachers, short-term$27,840/yr state median · 1,610 workers-33.2%vs. U.S. $41,670/yr
- Property, real estate, and community association managers$49,490/yr state median · 1,280 workers-29.3%vs. U.S. $69,990/yr
- Software developers$96,310/yr state median · 2,380 workers-29.2%vs. U.S. $135,980/yr
- Secondary school teachers, except special and career/technical education$51,050/yr state median · 3,360 workers-29.1%vs. U.S. $72,040/yr
Explore occupations
Occupation pay in South Dakota
Search every tracked OEWS occupation record for South Dakota. Links marked “South Dakota report” open a detailed state report; links marked “National report” open the U.S. occupation report because no South Dakota report is available.
531 occupations · showing 1–25
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), reference period May 2025; our data connection last checked Sep 23, 2026. OEWS covers wage and salary jobs and excludes the self-employed. “Top-coded” means BLS publishes only that the wage is at or above its reporting ceiling; “Not released” means BLS withheld the estimate. Missing values are never estimated. These occupation wages are separate from the QCEW industry trends on detailed occupation pages.