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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
Union County, South Dakota; Plymouth and Woodbury counties, Iowa; Dakota and Dixon counties, Nebraska

Sioux Falls MSA
Lincoln, McCook, Minnehaha, Turner