South Dakota · SOC 29-0000 · Annual, 2025
Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations in South Dakota
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 29-0000 in South Dakota, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 36,000 people in South Dakota worked in healthcare practitioners and technical occupations (SOC 29-0000), with an average annual wage of $95,430.
Employment in healthcare practitioners and technical occupations in South Dakota grew 10.2% from 2020 to 2025. The average wage in this occupation group is 57.7% above the all-occupations average in South Dakota. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 36,000. Quarterly values, full occupation 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.
- 36,000Employment, 2025
- $95,430Mean annual wage
- 7.8%Share of South Dakota jobs
- 1.24Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 23,500; 2005 23,800; 2006 24,200; 2007 24,800; 2008 25,600; 2009 26,100; 2010 26,700; 2011 27,200; 2012 28,000; 2013 28,400; 2014 28,500; 2015 28,800; 2016 29,500; 2017 30,500; 2018 31,200; 2019 31,700; 2020 32,600; 2021 33,800; 2022 34,700; 2023 35,000; 2024 35,700; 2025 36,000.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35,951 | $95,431 | 0.8% |
| 2024 | 35,668 | $90,556 | 1.8% |
| 2023 | 35,030 | $86,481 | 0.9% |
| 2022 | 34,731 | $83,825 | 2.9% |
| 2021 | 33,754 | $80,501 | 3.4% |
| 2020 | 32,631 | $78,962 | 3.0% |
| 2019 | 31,677 | $74,643 | 1.7% |
| 2018 | 31,160 | $73,261 | 2.1% |
| 2017 | 30,509 | $73,310 | 3.3% |
| 2016 | 29,523 | $72,883 | 2.3% |
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. Every occupation value is a DTG estimate: there is no published county or state census of occupations to report, so no value here is marked as published or estimated, and none carries a reliability score. Quarterly figures, county figures, detailed occupations and projected years are in the app.
How these figures are built
DTG’s industry employment fixes how many jobs there are in each industry in the state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ national industry-occupation matrix says how each industry is staffed, and the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey says how many people work in each occupation in the area and what they earn. DTG makes the three agree, so occupation employment sums to the same totals as industry employment. Employment is the annual average; the mean annual wage is the year’s total occupation wages divided by that average employment. The construction is described in full on the occupation data page.
Notes
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Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations in South Dakota, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for healthcare practitioners and technical occupations in South Dakota. A free account shows every detailed occupation in the group, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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