South Dakota · NAICS 42 · Annual, 2025
Wholesale Trade in South Dakota
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 42 in South Dakota, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Wholesale Trade (NAICS 42) employed about 22,300 people in South Dakota across roughly 3,163 establishments, with average annual pay of $85,910.
Employment in Wholesale Trade in South Dakota grew 6.8% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.3× as concentrated in South Dakota as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.25). Average pay in the industry is 41.8% above the all-industries average in South Dakota. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for South Dakota are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 22,300Employment, 2025
- 3,163Establishments
- $85,910Avg. annual pay
- 4.9%Share of South Dakota jobs
- 1.25Location quotient
The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 1.00. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 17,000; 2005 17,500; 2006 18,300; 2007 18,400; 2008 18,700; 2009 18,300; 2010 18,600; 2011 19,000; 2012 19,500; 2013 19,900; 2014 20,800; 2015 21,100; 2016 21,200; 2017 21,000; 2018 20,900; 2019 21,100; 2020 20,900; 2021 21,400; 2022 22,000; 2023 22,300; 2024 22,500; 2025 22,300.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22,334 | 3,163 | $85,906 | 0.9% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2024 | 22,537 | 3,132 | $82,763 | 1.1% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2023 | 22,285 | 3,108 | $79,788 | 1.5% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2022 | 21,957 | 3,078 | $76,613 | 2.7% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2021 | 21,384 | 2,927 | $71,042 | 2.2% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2020 | 20,919 | 2,786 | $66,288 | 0.9% | pub. |
| 2019 | 21,115 | 2,728 | $62,152 | 1.2% | pub. |
| 2018 | 20,858 | 2,676 | $60,783 | 0.6% | pub. |
| 2017 | 20,989 | 2,629 | $58,425 | 0.9% | pub. |
| 2016 | 21,175 | 2,589 | $57,053 | 0.3% | pub. |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
By subsector, 2025
3-digit NAICS · 3 shown
| Code | Subsector | Employment | Share of wholesale trade | LQ | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 423 | Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods | 11,413 | 51.1% | 1.13 | pub. |
| 424 | Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods | 10,537 | 47.2% | 1.63 | est. · 1.00 |
| 425 | Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers | 384 | 1.7% | 0.29 | pub. |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
Where these numbers come from
Reading these figures
The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.
How this figure was built
Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.
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Wholesale Trade in South Dakota, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for wholesale trade in South Dakota. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
County figures, file export and the API are on paid plans.