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South Dakota e-Labor Bulletin

Sioux Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)*

Nonfarm Worker Levels

Not Seasonally Adjusted

Industry March
2025
February
2025
March
2024
Percent Change
Last
Month
Last
Year
TOTAL 177,400 177,100 176,900 0.2% 0.3%
Total Private 160,300 160,100 160,000 0.1% 0.2%
Goods Producing 27,500 27,400 26,600 0.4% 3.4%
Service Providing 149,900 149,700 150,300 0.1% -0.3%
Private Service Providing 132,800 132,700 133,400 0.1% -0.4%
Mining, Logging and Construction 12,000 11,800 11,000 1.7% 9.1%
Manufacturing 15,500 15,600 15,600 -0.6% -0.6%
Trade, Transportation and Utilities 36,900 37,000 37,400 -0.3% -1.3%
   Wholesale Trade 9,400 9,400 9,300 0.0% 1.1%
   Retail Trade 19,700 19,800 19,900 -0.5% -1.0%
   Transportation, Warehousing and Utilities 7,800 7,800 8,200 0.0% -4.9%
Information 2,700 2,700 2,600 0.0% 3.8%
Financial Activities 14,600 14,400 14,700 1.4% -0.7%
Professional and Business Services 17,400 17,200 17,200 1.2% 1.2%
Private Education and Health Services 38,800 38,900 37,600 -0.3% 3.2%
Leisure and Hospitality 15,600 15,800 17,300 -1.3% -9.8%
Other Services (except Public Administration) 6,800 6,700 6,600 1.5% 3.0%
Government 17,100 17,000 16,900 0.6% 1.2%
Notes: 2025 data is preliminary and subject to revision. Data may not sum to totals because of rounding.
*Beginning with data for January 2025, the Sioux Falls MSA designation has been changed to include Rock County of Minnesota as well as Lincoln, Minnehaha, McCook and Turner counties of South Dakota as it formerly did.
Source: Labor Market Information Center, South Dakota Department of Labor and Regulation, in cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Access historical Sioux Falls MSA nonfarm wage and salaried worker data.
See the definition of nonfarm wage and salaried workers.
See the definition of the Sioux Falls MSA.
See technical notes about nonfarm worker estimates.