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Labor Market Information Center
2023 Annual Report
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages
The table below shows annual pay for covered workers by county for 2022 and 2023. The county with the highest annual pay for 2023 was Union County at $70,969.
Most of South Dakota’s counties experienced increases in annual pay. The highest percentage gains occurred in Clark, Mellette, and Hand counties. The largest actual numeric gains occurred in Clark, Hand, and Campbell counties.
The map below the table illustrates the percentage change in annual pay by county from 2022 to 2023.
| Annual Pay for Covered Workers by County 2022 and 2023 |
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| County | 2022 | 2023 | Percent Change | County | 2022 | 2023 | Percent Change | |
| Aurora | $38,571 | $40,365 | 4.7% | Hyde | $50,870 | $52,578 | 3.4% | |
| Beadle | $47,566 | $49,455 | 4.0% | Jackson | $38,287 | $39,505 | 3.2% | |
| Bennett | $38,856 | $41,091 | 5.8% | Jerauld | $43,099 | $43,775 | 1.6% | |
| Bon Homme | $40,680 | $42,925 | 5.5% | Jones | $33,321 | $35,136 | 5.4% | |
| Brookings | $52,253 | $54,400 | 4.1% | Kingsbury | $43,819 | $45,857 | 4.7% | |
| Brown | $51,760 | $52,565 | 1.6% | Lake | $50,632 | $54,080 | 6.8% | |
| Brule | $44,160 | $40,591 | -8.1% | Lawrence | $47,744 | $49,534 | 3.7% | |
| Buffalo | $45,620 | $47,802 | 4.8% | Lincoln | $62,167 | $63,085 | 1.5% | |
| Butte | $40,453 | $43,363 | 7.2% | Lyman | $36,232 | $36,520 | 0.8% | |
| Campbell | $40,761 | $44,729 | 9.7% | McCook | $46,336 | $47,157 | 1.8% | |
| Charles Mix | $42,958 | $44,772 | 4.2% | McPherson | $37,369 | $40,358 | 8.0% | |
| Clark | $40,305 | $46,489 | 15.3% | Marshall | $48,740 | $50,975 | 4.6% | |
| Clay | $43,856 | $46,626 | 6.3% | Meade | $50,265 | $54,218 | 7.9% | |
| Codington | $47,664 | $50,053 | 5.0% | Mellette | $30,752 | $34,291 | 11.5% | |
| Corson | $44,195 | $46,373 | 4.9% | Miner | $39,670 | $41,692 | 5.1% | |
| Custer | $43,535 | $45,010 | 3.4% | Minnehaha | $60,659 | $62,688 | 3.3% | |
| Davison | $48,624 | $51,694 | 6.3% | Moody | $48,242 | $50,672 | 5.0% | |
| Day | $40,855 | $43,775 | 7.1% | Oglala Lakota | $50,207 | $50,692 | 1.0% | |
| Deuel | $50,183 | $51,845 | 3.3% | Pennington | $52,902 | $54,937 | 3.8% | |
| Dewey | $45,904 | $48,352 | 5.3% | Perkins | $40,900 | $41,125 | 0.6% | |
| Douglas | $42,641 | $45,123 | 5.8% | Potter | $45,701 | $45,795 | 0.2% | |
| Edmunds | $48,044 | $49,909 | 3.9% | Roberts | $44,927 | $43,914 | -2.3% | |
| Fall River | $45,765 | $48,598 | 6.2% | Sanborn | $37,590 | $38,545 | 2.5% | |
| Faulk | $38,658 | $41,113 | 6.4% | Spink | $47,211 | $50,081 | 6.1% | |
| Grant | $50,864 | $53,099 | 4.4% | Stanley | $42,772 | $44,654 | 4.4% | |
| Gregory | $36,853 | $39,136 | 6.2% | Sully | $48,322 | $51,309 | 6.2% | |
| Haakon | $46,159 | $46,166 | 0.0% | Todd | $48,586 | $49,046 | 0.9% | |
| Hamlin | $50,863 | $52,776 | 3.8% | Tripp | $44,093 | $46,060 | 4.5% | |
| Hand | $38,350 | $42,388 | 10.5% | Turner | $43,407 | $44,731 | 3.1% | |
| Hanson | $45,978 | $48,369 | 5.2% | Union | $70,193 | $70,969 | 1.1% | |
| Harding | $44,957 | $44,716 | -0.5% | Walworth | $41,409 | $44,575 | 7.6% | |
| Hughes | $55,166 | $58,413 | 5.9% | Yankton | $52,085 | $54,761 | 5.1% | |
| Hutchinson | $43,706 | $46,693 | 6.8% | Ziebach | $39,467 | $41,319 | 4.7% | |
| 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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