South Dakota · NAICS 487 · Annual, 2025

Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in South Dakota

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 487 in South Dakota, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation (NAICS 487) employed about 110 people in South Dakota across roughly 14 establishments, with average annual pay of $32,220.

Employment in Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in South Dakota grew 6.5% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 46.8% below 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.

  • 110Employment, 2025
  • 14Establishments
  • $32,220Avg. annual pay
  • 0.0%Share of South Dakota jobs
  • 1.15Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in South Dakota, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 80 to 110.05010015020042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 80; 2005 80; 2006 80; 2007 70; 2008 80; 2009 80; 2010 90; 2011 80; 2012 70; 2013 100; 2014 110; 2015 110; 2016 90; 2017 110; 2018 100; 2019 110; 2020 100; 2021 110; 2022 110; 2023 110; 2024 110; 2025 110.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202510714$32,221 0.1%pub.
202410714$30,164 1.5%pub.
202310914$32,102 5.4%pub.
202211513$30,093 1.3%pub.
202111312$31,498 12.9%pub.
202010014$29,679 4.6%pub.
201910513$23,337 3.3%pub.
201810214$24,083 7.2%pub.
201711014$22,194 17.5%pub.
20169313$22,162 12.2%pub.

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

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.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

Notes

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Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in South Dakota, quarterly, at full depth

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