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Labor Market Information Center
2025 Annual Report
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages
The table below shows annual pay for covered workers by county for 2024 and 2025. The county with the highest annual pay for 2025 was Union County at $74,557.
Almost all South Dakota’s counties experienced increases in annual pay. The highest percentage gains occurred in Todd, Haakon, Harding, and Bon Homme counties. The largest actual numeric gains occurred in Todd, Haakon, and Lincoln counties.
| Annual Pay for Covered Workers by County 2024 and 2025 |
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| County | 2024 | 2025 | Percent Change | County | 2024 | 2025 | Percent Change | |
| Aurora | $41,851 | $42,612 | 1.8% | Hyde | $55,062 | $55,430 | 0.7% | |
| Beadle | $50,490 | $53,992 | 6.9% | Jackson | $41,338 | $43,379 | 4.9% | |
| Bennett | $42,488 | $44,070 | 3.7% | Jerauld | $47,595 | $47,993 | 0.8% | |
| Bon Homme | $46,360 | $50,293 | 8.5% | Jones | $35,355 | $34,925 | -1.2% | |
| Brookings | $56,993 | $58,550 | 2.7% | Kingsbury | $47,848 | $50,587 | 5.7% | |
| Brown | $54,431 | $56,565 | 3.9% | Lake | $56,798 | $59,147 | 4.1% | |
| Brule | $41,127 | $42,625 | 3.6% | Lawrence | $50,202 | $50,950 | 1.5% | |
| Buffalo | $50,972 | $53,538 | 5.0% | Lincoln | $65,125 | $69,492 | 6.7% | |
| Butte | $45,790 | $47,760 | 4.3% | Lyman | $37,706 | $40,347 | 7.0% | |
| Campbell | $44,871 | $46,980 | 4.7% | McCook | $50,588 | $53,835 | 6.4% | |
| Charles Mix | $47,614 | $50,929 | 7.0% | McPherson | $41,790 | $44,416 | 6.3% | |
| Clark | $46,785 | $47,180 | 0.8% | Marshall | $55,083 | $55,209 | 0.2% | |
| Clay | $48,927 | $50,535 | 3.3% | Meade | $57,251 | $59,355 | 3.7% | |
| Codington | $52,140 | $54,662 | 4.8% | Mellette | $36,827 | $38,654 | 5.0% | |
| Corson | $48,181 | $50,803 | 5.4% | Miner | $43,506 | $46,697 | 7.3% | |
| Custer | $47,497 | $50,340 | 6.0% | Minnehaha | $65,101 | $66,906 | 2.8% | |
| Davison | $53,293 | $57,418 | 7.7% | Moody | $53,171 | $55,555 | 4.5% | |
| Day | $44,893 | $47,947 | 6.8% | Oglala Lakota | $53,580 | $52,381 | -2.2% | |
| Deuel | $53,154 | $54,870 | 3.2% | Pennington | $57,288 | $59,768 | 4.3% | |
| Dewey | $51,082 | $55,096 | 7.9% | Perkins | $41,735 | $43,582 | 4.4% | |
| Douglas | $45,567 | $47,141 | 3.5% | Potter | $46,287 | $48,896 | 5.6% | |
| Edmunds | $51,990 | $54,307 | 4.5% | Roberts | $45,280 | $47,899 | 5.8% | |
| Fall River | $51,205 | $52,215 | 2.0% | Sanborn | $41,570 | $44,658 | 7.4% | |
| Faulk | $42,502 | $45,404 | 6.8% | Spink | $51,123 | $52,375 | 2.4% | |
| Grant | $54,484 | $56,488 | 3.7% | Stanley | $46,978 | $49,056 | 4.4% | |
| Gregory | $39,943 | $41,778 | 4.6% | Sully | $55,528 | $56,470 | 1.7% | |
| Haakon | $47,546 | $52,435 | 10.3% | Todd | $49,359 | $54,509 | 10.4% | |
| Hamlin | $55,542 | $58,573 | 5.5% | Tripp | $49,589 | $51,592 | 4.0% | |
| Hand | $43,942 | $46,901 | 6.7% | Turner | $46,659 | $48,467 | 3.9% | |
| Hanson | $51,871 | $49,747 | -4.1% | Union | $73,275 | $74,557 | 1.7% | |
| Harding | $46,634 | $50,613 | 8.5% | Walworth | $46,773 | $49,044 | 4.9% | |
| Hughes | $61,735 | $64,153 | 3.9% | Yankton | $55,513 | $57,444 | 3.5% | |
| Hutchinson | $48,418 | $50,549 | 4.4% | Ziebach | $52,326 | $47,450 | -9.3% | |
| 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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