South Dakota · NAICS 512 · Annual, 2025
Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries in South Dakota
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 512 in South Dakota, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries (NAICS 512) employed about 550 people in South Dakota across roughly 79 establishments, with average annual pay of $29,310.
Employment in Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries in South Dakota grew 36.1% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in South Dakota than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.51). Average pay in the industry is 51.6% 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.
- 550Employment, 2025
- 79Establishments
- $29,310Avg. annual pay
- 0.1%Share of South Dakota jobs
- 0.51Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 580; 2005 580; 2006 610; 2007 680; 2008 560; 2009 580; 2010 580; 2011 560; 2012 550; 2013 570; 2014 600; 2015 610; 2016 560; 2017 600; 2018 610; 2019 620; 2020 400; 2021 440; 2022 590; 2023 590; 2024 570; 2025 550.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 550 | 79 | $29,307 | 3.7% | pub. |
| 2024 | 571 | 86 | $28,232 | 3.5% | pub. |
| 2023 | 591 | 87 | $26,233 | 0.0% | pub. |
| 2022 | 591 | 86 | $28,816 | 33.3% | pub. |
| 2021 | 444 | 86 | $26,995 | 9.8% | pub. |
| 2020 | 404 | 86 | $23,274 | 35.3% | pub. |
| 2019 | 625 | 85 | $16,505 | 2.1% | pub. |
| 2018 | 612 | 82 | $17,010 | 1.6% | pub. |
| 2017 | 602 | 81 | $15,860 | 7.0% | pub. |
| 2016 | 563 | 86 | $15,770 | 7.1% | pub. |
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.
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Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries in South Dakota, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for motion picture and sound recording industries 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.