# Counties in South Dakota by average weekly wage (QCEW), 2025

All 66 values come from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `average_weekly_wage`
- Unit: USD
- Definition: Total wages paid during the year divided by the average number of covered jobs and by 52, in US dollars, all industries, private and government, from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Counted where the job is located, from the reports employers file each quarter; monthly employment counts the jobs in the pay period that includes the 12th.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average weekly wage, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties (https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/bureau-of-labor-statistics
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average weekly wage, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties. https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/average-weekly-wage/south-dakota-counties

| Rank | Place | USD |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Union County | 1,434 |
| 2 | Lincoln County | 1,336 |
| 3 | Minnehaha County | 1,287 |
| 4 | Hughes County | 1,234 |
| 5 | Pennington County | 1,149 |
| 6 | Lake County | 1,138 |
| 6 | Meade County | 1,138 |
| 8 | Brookings County | 1,126 |
| 8 | Hamlin County | 1,126 |
| 10 | Yankton County | 1,105 |
| 11 | Davison County | 1,104 |
| 12 | Brown County | 1,088 |
| 13 | Grant County | 1,086 |
| 14 | Sully County | 1,085 |
| 15 | Moody County | 1,068 |
| 16 | Hyde County | 1,065 |
| 17 | Marshall County | 1,061 |
| 18 | Dewey County | 1,060 |
| 19 | Deuel County | 1,055 |
| 20 | Codington County | 1,051 |
| 21 | Todd County | 1,048 |
| 22 | Edmunds County | 1,044 |
| 23 | Beadle County | 1,038 |
| 24 | McCook County | 1,035 |
| 25 | Buffalo County | 1,029 |
| 26 | Haakon County | 1,009 |
| 27 | Oglala Lakota County | 1,007 |
| 27 | Spink County | 1,007 |
| 29 | Fall River County | 1,004 |
| 30 | Tripp County | 992 |
| 31 | Lawrence County | 980 |
| 32 | Charles Mix County | 979 |
| 33 | Corson County | 977 |
| 34 | Harding County | 973 |
| 34 | Kingsbury County | 973 |
| 36 | Clay County | 972 |
| 36 | Hutchinson County | 972 |
| 38 | Custer County | 968 |
| 39 | Bon Homme County | 967 |
| 40 | Hanson County | 956 |
| 41 | Stanley County | 943 |
| 41 | Walworth County | 943 |
| 43 | Potter County | 940 |
| 44 | Turner County | 932 |
| 45 | Jerauld County | 923 |
| 46 | Day County | 922 |
| 47 | Roberts County | 921 |
| 48 | Butte County | 919 |
| 49 | Ziebach County | 912 |
| 50 | Clark County | 908 |
| 51 | Douglas County | 907 |
| 52 | Campbell County | 904 |
| 53 | Hand County | 902 |
| 54 | Miner County | 898 |
| 55 | Faulk County | 873 |
| 56 | Sanborn County | 859 |
| 57 | McPherson County | 854 |
| 58 | Bennett County | 848 |
| 59 | Perkins County | 838 |
| 60 | Jackson County | 834 |
| 61 | Aurora County | 820 |
| 61 | Brule County | 820 |
| 63 | Gregory County | 803 |
| 64 | Lyman County | 776 |
| 65 | Mellette County | 744 |
| 66 | Jones County | 671 |