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Sioux Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)*
Nonfarm Worker Levels
Not Seasonally Adjusted
| Industry | May 2025 |
April 2025 |
May 2024 |
Percent Change |
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| Last Month |
Last Year |
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| TOTAL | 181,400 | 179,700 | 181,600 | 0.9% | -0.1% |
| Total Private | 163,800 | 162,600 | 164,300 | 0.7% | -0.3% |
| Goods Producing | 28,900 | 28,500 | 28,300 | 1.4% | 2.1% |
| Service Providing | 152,500 | 151,200 | 153,300 | 0.9% | -0.5% |
| Private Service Providing | 134,900 | 134,100 | 136,000 | 0.6% | -0.8% |
| Mining, Logging and Construction | 13,300 | 12,900 | 12,400 | 3.1% | 7.3% |
| Manufacturing | 15,600 | 15,600 | 15,900 | 0.0% | -1.9% |
| Trade, Transportation and Utilities | 37,300 | 36,900 | 37,800 | 1.1% | -1.3% |
| Wholesale Trade | 9,600 | 9,400 | 9,400 | 2.1% | 2.1% |
| Retail Trade | 19,900 | 19,800 | 20,400 | 0.5% | -2.5% |
| Transportation, Warehousing and Utilities | 7,800 | 7,700 | 8,000 | 1.3% | -2.5% |
| Information | 2,700 | 2,600 | 2,600 | 3.8% | 3.8% |
| Financial Activities | 14,300 | 14,400 | 14,700 | -0.7% | -2.7% |
| Professional and Business Services | 17,700 | 17,800 | 17,700 | -0.6% | 0.0% |
| Private Education and Health Services | 39,100 | 39,100 | 38,100 | 0.0% | 2.6% |
| Leisure and Hospitality | 16,900 | 16,400 | 18,400 | 3.0% | -8.2% |
| Other Services (except Public Administration) | 6,900 | 6,900 | 6,700 | 0.0% | 3.0% |
| Government | 17,600 | 17,100 | 17,300 | 2.9% | 1.7% |
| 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. |
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| 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. |
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