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Labor Market Information Center
2022 Annual Report
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages
The table below indicates 76% (50) of the counties showed worker growth from 2021 to 2022. The highest percentage gains occurred in Lincoln, Miner and Brule counties. The largest absolute gains materialized in Minnehaha, Lincoln and Pennington counties.
Decreases in the number of covered workers occurred in 24% (16) of the counties in South Dakota. The greatest percentage decreases occurred in Ziebach, Sully and Aurora counties, and the largest absolute losses happened in Brown, Sully and Spink counties.
The map below provides information on the percentage change in the average number of covered workers in South Dakota's counties from 2021 to 2022.
| Number of Covered Workers by County 2021 and 2022 |
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| County | 2021 | 2022 | Percent Change | County | 2021 | 2022 | Percent Change | |
| Aurora | 869 | 828 | -4.7% | Hyde | 521 | 520 | -0.2% | |
| Beadle | 8,252 | 8,417 | 2.0% | Jackson | 669 | 666 | -0.4% | |
| Bennett | 786 | 801 | 1.9% | Jerauld | 1,856 | 1,842 | -0.8% | |
| Bon Homme | 1,711 | 1,731 | 1.2% | Jones | 382 | 385 | 0.8% | |
| Brookings | 17,871 | 18,731 | 4.8% | Kingsbury | 1,752 | 1,844 | 5.3% | |
| Brown | 19,897 | 19,687 | -1.1% | Lake | 4,934 | 5,152 | 4.4% | |
| Brule | 2,019 | 2,148 | 6.4% | Lawrence | 12,281 | 12,833 | 4.5% | |
| Buffalo | 518 | 544 | 5.0% | Lincoln | 25,726 | 28,064 | 9.1% | |
| Butte | 2,686 | 2,733 | 1.7% | Lyman | 1,375 | 1,393 | 1.3% | |
| Campbell | 446 | 440 | -1.3% | McCook | 1,278 | 1,333 | 4.3% | |
| Charles Mix | 3,368 | 3,403 | 1.0% | McPherson | 541 | 551 | 1.8% | |
| Clark | 1,097 | 1,133 | 3.3% | Marshall | 1,630 | 1,725 | 5.8% | |
| Clay | 5,948 | 6,050 | 1.7% | Meade | 7,878 | 8,068 | 2.4% | |
| Codington | 16,179 | 16,749 | 3.5% | Mellette | 308 | 322 | 4.5% | |
| Corson | 756 | 722 | -4.5% | Miner | 725 | 781 | 7.7% | |
| Custer | 2,516 | 2,586 | 2.8% | Minnehaha | 128,430 | 131,911 | 2.7% | |
| Davison | 11,891 | 12,220 | 2.8% | Moody | 2,383 | 2,406 | 1.0% | |
| Day | 1,834 | 1,859 | 1.4% | Oglala Lakota | 4,083 | 4,162 | 1.9% | |
| Deuel | 1,479 | 1,484 | 0.3% | Pennington | 58,242 | 60,258 | 3.5% | |
| Dewey | 2,361 | 2,386 | 1.1% | Perkins | 1,073 | 1,114 | 3.8% | |
| Douglas | 1,052 | 1,005 | -4.5% | Potter | 790 | 781 | -1.1% | |
| Edmunds | 1,186 | 1,131 | -4.6% | Roberts | 3,435 | 3,401 | -1.0% | |
| Fall River | 2,521 | 2,549 | 1.1% | Sanborn | 617 | 628 | 1.8% | |
| Faulk | 602 | 616 | 2.3% | Spink | 2,363 | 2,280 | -3.5% | |
| Grant | 3,716 | 3,815 | 2.7% | Stanley | 1,202 | 1,258 | 4.7% | |
| Gregory | 1,517 | 1,579 | 4.1% | Sully | 797 | 684 | -14.2% | |
| Haakon | 754 | 778 | 3.2% | Todd | 2,881 | 2,851 | -1.0% | |
| Hamlin | 2,284 | 2,396 | 4.9% | Tripp | 2,207 | 2,245 | 1.7% | |
| Hand | 1,361 | 1,416 | 4.0% | Turner | 2,159 | 2,257 | 4.5% | |
| Hanson | 633 | 643 | 1.6% | Union | 9,616 | 9,996 | 4.0% | |
| Harding | 441 | 458 | 3.9% | Walworth | 2,090 | 2,078 | -0.6% | |
| Hughes | 10,493 | 10,712 | 2.1% | Yankton | 12,378 | 12,693 | 2.5% | |
| Hutchinson | 2,657 | 2,664 | 0.3% | Ziebach | 282 | 242 | -14.2% | |
| Totals may not add due to rounding. Data subject to revision. Produced by the Labor Market Information Center, South Dakota Department of Labor and Regulation, in cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. |
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