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Labor Market Information Center

Occupational Wages - Counties Included in Wage Areas

East Balance of State Area
Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brown, Clark, Clay, Codington, Davison, Day, Deuel, Edmunds, Faulk, Grant, Hamlin, Hanson, Hutchinson, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Lake, Marshall, McPherson, Miner, Moody, Roberts, Sanborn, Spink, Yankton

West Balance of State Area
Bennett, Brule, Buffalo, Butte, Campbell, Charles Mix, Corson, Dewey, Douglas, Fall River, Gregory, Haakon, Hand, Harding, Hughes, Hyde, Jackson, Jones, Lawrence, Lyman, Mellette, Oglala Lakota, Perkins, Potter, Stanley, Sully, Todd, Tripp, Walworth, Ziebach

Rapid City MSA
Custer, Meade, Pennington

Sioux City MSA*
A cross-state MSA including the following counties: Union County, South Dakota; Plymouth and Woodbury counties, Iowa; and Dakota and Dixon counties, Nebraska.

Sioux Falls MSA
Lincoln, McCook, Minnehaha, Turner

*The Iowa Labor Market Information Division is responsible for gathering and compiling employment and wage data for the Sioux City cross-state MSA. Any questions regarding the Sioux City data should be directed to the Iowa Labor Market Information Division by calling 515.242.5862 or by visiting their website.