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Labor Market Information Center

Workers by Industry

Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages

Nonfarm Wage & Salaried Workers

Business Employment Dynamics data for South Dakota (and other states, from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics website)

About Business Employment Dynamics data

Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Extraction Tool
Provides easy access to data products produced through the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership. The Beta release of this tool makes the entire Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) dataset available through a simple query-building interface. Learn more about the LED Extraction Tool (pamphlet in Adobe PDF format).

Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) Explorer
Current industry-based statistics for South Dakota and most other states from the U.S. Census Bureau. Learn more about QWI Explorer (pamphlet in Adobe PDF format).

See definition of covered workers.

See definition of nonfarm wage and salaried workers.