Buyers and Purchasing Agents in South Dakota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$60,882
after federal, FICA and South Dakota tax
Tax takes
$13,108
17.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$69,109
South Dakota costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in South Dakota — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$73,990
Kept after tax
$60,882
Worth in national money
$69,109
State rank
34
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. South Dakota pays buyers and purchasing agents around $73,990 at the midpoint, 34 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 457 occupations South Dakota reports, buyers and purchasing agents comes in at 108 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- South Dakota is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $73,990 the take-home is $60,882; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $69,109 would nationally. The average comes to $78,690, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For buyers and purchasing agents the South Dakota median is $73,990, ranking 34 of 51 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Buyers and purchasing agents ranks 108 of 457 occupations by median in South Dakota, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Post-tax income for buyers and purchasing agents in South Dakota, on $73,990, is $60,882 — equivalent to $69,109 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $78,690 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Buyers and Purchasing Agents
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $56,330 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $73,990 |
| Top tenth earn over | $105,110 |
| This salary | $73,990 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in South Dakota | $60,882 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $60,882 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$6,458 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $73,990 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$8,920 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 88 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $73,990 as a midpoint for South Dakota, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $56,330 and the ninetieth is $105,110 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $60,882 take-home in South Dakota comes from $73,990. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 108 of 457.
- Two cautions on $69,109, the adjusted value of that $73,990 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of South Dakota. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 108 of 457 locally.
- The South Dakota median of $73,990 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $56,330 to $105,110. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $60,882, from $73,990, assumes a single South Dakota filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 108 of 457 locally, and the state ranks 34 of 51 for it.
- This $69,109 adjusted figure, worked from $73,990, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 108 of 457 in the state. The occupation ranks 108 of 457 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $78,690, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $56,330 at the tenth percentile, $105,110 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. South Dakota is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $69,109 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $60,882 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in South Dakota is $78,690. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($56,330 to $105,110) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to South Dakota rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
South Dakota's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $69,109 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
South Dakota levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $60,882 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.