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South Dakota e-Labor Bulletin

Sioux Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)*

Nonfarm Worker Levels

Not Seasonally Adjusted

Industry February
2025
January
2025
February
2024
Percent Change
Last
Month
Last
Year
TOTAL 177,100 177,200 175,500 -0.1% 0.9%
Total Private 160,100 160,300 158,700 -0.1% 0.9%
Goods Producing 27,300 27,500 26,100 -0.7% 4.6%
Service Providing 149,800 149,700 149,400 0.1% 0.3%
Private Service Providing 132,800 132,800 132,600 0.0% 0.2%
Mining, Logging and Construction 11,800 11,800 10,600 0.0% 11.3%
Manufacturing 15,500 15,700 15,500 -1.3% 0.0%
Trade, Transportation and Utilities 37,000 37,300 37,600 -0.8% -1.6%
   Wholesale Trade 9,400 9,500 9,300 -1.1% 1.1%
   Retail Trade 19,800 20,000 20,000 -1.0% -1.0%
   Transportation, Warehousing and Utilities 7,800 7,800 8,300 0.0% -6.0%
Information 2,700 2,700 2,600 0.0% 3.8%
Financial Activities 14,400 14,500 14,600 -0.7% -1.4%
Professional and Business Services 17,300 17,100 16,900 1.2% 2.4%
Private Education and Health Services 38,800 38,500 37,400 0.8% 3.7%
Leisure and Hospitality 15,800 16,000 16,900 -1.3% -6.5%
Other Services (except Public Administration) 6,800 6,700 6,600 1.5% 3.0%
Government 17,000 16,900 16,800 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.