Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders in South Dakota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,415
after federal, FICA and South Dakota tax
Tax takes
$7,415
15.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$47,012
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
$48,830
Kept after tax
$41,415
Worth in national money
$47,012
State rank
43
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in South Dakota. The middle earner gets $48,830. That is 43 of 47 states, and about 15.87% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 457 occupations South Dakota reports figures for, this is number 272.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $48,830 you keep $41,415 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $47,012 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $51,430, since top earners drag the number up.
- For chemical equipment operators and tenders, South Dakota sits in the lower band at $48,830, ranking 43 of 47 and trailing the national median by about 15.87%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- In South Dakota's occupational distribution, chemical equipment operators and tenders sits at 272 of 457 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Retained pay in South Dakota is $41,415 after the full tax stack, from $48,830. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $47,012 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $51,430 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $46,400 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,830 |
| Top tenth earn over | $58,320 |
| This salary | $48,830 |
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 | $41,415 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,415 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$4,393 |
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 | $48,830 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$5,313 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 88 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in South Dakota earn less than $48,830. The published range is $46,400 up to $58,320, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $41,415 take-home in South Dakota comes from $48,830. 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 272 of 457.
- Two cautions on $47,012, the adjusted value of that $48,830 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 272 of 457 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for chemical equipment operators and tenders in South Dakota the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $46,400 to $58,320. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $41,415, from $48,830, 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 272 of 457 locally, and the state ranks 43 of 47 for it.
- This $47,012 adjusted figure, worked from $48,830, 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 272 of 457 in the state. The occupation ranks 272 of 457 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $51,430, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $46,400 at the bottom tenth to $58,320 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in South Dakota sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $47,012 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $41,415 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 47 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $51,430. 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 ($46,400 to $58,320) 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 $47,012 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 $41,415 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.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.