Minnehaha County · South Dakota
Sioux Falls, SD jobs and wages
Who works here, what they earn, and which industries carry the local economy — Census ACS estimates for the city itself, not the wider metro.
Quick answer
Workers in Sioux Falls, SD earn a median of $44,978 a year, 1% above the national median of $44,587. Unemployment is 2.3% against 5.2% nationally, and education, health care & social assistance is the largest employer at 25.1% of jobs.
- Median earnings
- $44,978#33 of 94 metros
- Unemployment rate
- 2.3%US 5.2%
- Labor force participation
- 74.4%US 63.5%
- People employed
- 111,455Civilian employed, age 16+
What Sioux Falls does for a living
Share of the civilian employed population by industry, largest first.
- Education, health care & social assistance25.1%
- Retail trade12.3%
- Finance, insurance & real estate11.2%
- Manufacturing10.4%
- Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation & food9.3%
- Professional, scientific & management8.5%
- Construction6.4%
- Other services, except public administration4.5%
- Transportation, warehousing & utilities4.1%
- Wholesale trade2.8%
- Public administration2.6%
- Information1.8%
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting & mining1%
Related data for Sioux Falls
Earnings only mean something next to what things cost.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates
Tables B23025, B20002 and C24030, 2019-2023 ACS 5-year. Industry shares combine the male and female columns of C24030 and are rounded, so they may not total exactly 100%.