# Counties in South Dakota by wages and salaries paid, 2024

All 66 values come from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis for 2024, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `wages_and_salaries`
- Unit: USD million
- Definition: Total wages and salaries paid to employees for jobs located in a place, including tips, bonuses and pay in kind, before deductions, in millions of current US dollars. United States: Bureau of Economic Analysis regional accounts, table SAINC4 line 50 for the nation and states and CAINC4 line 50 for counties.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, CAINC4: personal income by major component, wages and salaries (published in thousands of dollars, shown in millions), individual counties and county equivalents (https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/CAINC4.zip)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/bureau-of-economic-analysis
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. CAINC4: personal income by major component, wages and salaries (published in thousands of dollars, shown in millions), individual counties and county equivalents. https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/CAINC4.zip. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/wages-and-salaries/south-dakota-counties

| Rank | Place | USD million |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Minnehaha County | 9,458.9 |
| 2 | Pennington County | 3,985.1 |
| 3 | Lincoln County | 2,054.1 |
| 4 | Brown County | 1,163.7 |
| 5 | Brookings County | 1,159.9 |
| 6 | Codington County | 948.3 |
| 7 | Yankton County | 761.4 |
| 8 | Union County | 742.4 |
| 9 | Lawrence County | 724.5 |
| 10 | Hughes County | 704.2 |
| 11 | Davison County | 700.4 |
| 12 | Meade County | 559.1 |
| 13 | Beadle County | 468.3 |
| 14 | Clay County | 320.5 |
| 15 | Lake County | 311.5 |
| 16 | Grant County | 221.2 |
| 17 | Oglala Lakota County | 216.7 |
| 18 | Charles Mix County | 178 |
| 19 | Roberts County | 173.4 |
| 20 | Todd County | 153.6 |
| 21 | Hamlin County | 153.5 |
| 22 | Fall River County | 152.7 |
| 23 | Butte County | 147.7 |
| 24 | Hutchinson County | 142.3 |
| 25 | Custer County | 139.5 |
| 26 | Moody County | 131.7 |
| 27 | Dewey County | 131.4 |
| 28 | Spink County | 127.7 |
| 29 | Tripp County | 126.5 |
| 30 | Turner County | 119.5 |
| 31 | Walworth County | 104.9 |
| 32 | Day County | 100.5 |
| 33 | Brule County | 97.8 |
| 34 | Marshall County | 95.7 |
| 35 | Kingsbury County | 94.8 |
| 36 | Deuel County | 93.3 |
| 37 | Bon Homme County | 85.7 |
| 38 | Jerauld County | 78.4 |
| 39 | McCook County | 78.1 |
| 40 | Hand County | 74.2 |
| 41 | Gregory County | 70.6 |
| 42 | Stanley County | 70 |
| 43 | Edmunds County | 67.1 |
| 44 | Clark County | 60.4 |
| 45 | Lyman County | 59.1 |
| 46 | Douglas County | 54.9 |
| 47 | Perkins County | 54.6 |
| 48 | Haakon County | 45.1 |
| 49 | Sully County | 43.3 |
| 50 | Potter County | 43.1 |
| 51 | Corson County | 41.1 |
| 52 | Bennett County | 40.6 |
| 53 | Hanson County | 38.7 |
| 54 | Aurora County | 35.8 |
| 55 | Faulk County | 35.4 |
| 56 | Miner County | 35.3 |
| 57 | Jackson County | 35.2 |
| 58 | Hyde County | 33.2 |
| 59 | Sanborn County | 31.5 |
| 60 | Buffalo County | 30 |
| 61 | McPherson County | 27.6 |
| 62 | Harding County | 26.4 |
| 63 | Campbell County | 26 |
| 64 | Ziebach County | 17.9 |
| 65 | Jones County | 17.8 |
| 66 | Mellette County | 15.7 |