Entertainment and Recreation Managers, Except Gambling in South Dakota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$62,296
after federal, FICA and South Dakota tax
Tax takes
$13,704
18.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$70,715
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
$76,000
Kept after tax
$62,296
Worth in national money
$70,715
State rank
32
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. South Dakota pays this job a middle wage of $76,000, 32 of 47 states and about 4.43% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within South Dakota this is well-paid work. Of 457 occupations with published figures in the state, this job ranks 101 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- South Dakota is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $76,000 the take-home is $62,296; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $70,715 would nationally. The average comes to $80,170, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- South Dakota's $76,000 median for entertainment and recreation managers, except gambling places it 32 of 47 states, about 4.43% 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.
- Ranked against every occupation South Dakota publishes a median for, entertainment and recreation managers, except gambling sits 101 of 457 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- Post-tax income for entertainment and recreation managers, except gambling in South Dakota, on $76,000, is $62,296 — equivalent to $70,715 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 $80,170 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Entertainment and Recreation Managers, Except Gambling
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $56,720 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $76,000 |
| Top tenth earn over | $107,720 |
| This salary | $76,000 |
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 | $62,296 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $62,296 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$6,608 |
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 | $76,000 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$9,127 |
| 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 $76,000. The published range is $56,720 up to $107,720, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In South Dakota the take-home figure of $62,296, from $76,000, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 101 of 457 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $70,715, the adjusted value of that $76,000 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 101 of 457 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for entertainment and recreation managers, except gambling in South Dakota the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $56,720 to $107,720. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for South Dakota is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $62,296 from $76,000. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 101 of 457 locally.
- This $70,715 adjusted figure, worked from $76,000, 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 101 of 457 in the state. The occupation ranks 101 of 457 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $80,170 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $56,720 at the bottom tenth to $107,720 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $70,715.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $62,296 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. 47 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release 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 $80,170. 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 ($56,720 to $107,720) 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 $70,715 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 $62,296 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.