Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers in South Dakota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$37,422
after federal, FICA and South Dakota tax
Tax takes
$6,438
14.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,479
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
$43,860
Kept after tax
$37,422
Worth in national money
$42,479
State rank
42
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. South Dakota pays this job a middle wage of $43,860, 42 of 48 states and about 7.57% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Against 457 occupations South Dakota publishes, this job lands at 347. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- South Dakota is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $43,860 the take-home is $37,422; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $42,479 would nationally. The average comes to $44,900, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- South Dakota's $43,860 median for coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers places it 42 of 48 states, about 7.57% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Within South Dakota, this work ranks 347 of 457 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Post-tax income for coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers in South Dakota, on $43,860, is $37,422 — equivalent to $42,479 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 $44,900 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,520 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $43,860 |
| Top tenth earn over | $60,990 |
| This salary | $43,860 |
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 | $37,422 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $37,422 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,969 |
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 | $43,860 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,800 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 88 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $43,860 as a midpoint for South Dakota, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $36,520 and the ninetieth is $60,990 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $37,422 take-home in South Dakota comes from $43,860. 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 347 of 457.
- Two cautions on $42,479, the adjusted value of that $43,860 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 347 of 457 locally.
- The South Dakota median of $43,860 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $36,520 to $60,990. 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 $37,422, from $43,860, 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 347 of 457 locally, and the state ranks 42 of 48 for it.
- This $42,479 adjusted figure, worked from $43,860, 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 347 of 457 in the state. The occupation ranks 347 of 457 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $36,520 at the tenth percentile, $60,990 at the ninetieth.
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 $42,479 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $37,422 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?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 48 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($36,520 to $60,990) 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 $42,479 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 $37,422 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.