Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic in South Dakota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$42,050
after federal, FICA and South Dakota tax
Tax takes
$7,570
15.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$47,732
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
$49,620
Kept after tax
$42,050
Worth in national money
$47,732
State rank
16
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. South Dakota pays this job around $49,620 at the midpoint, 16 of 46 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in South Dakota, this sits in the middle: 258 of 457 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where South Dakota does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $49,620 you keep $42,050, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $47,732 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $50,370, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic the South Dakota median is $49,620, ranking 16 of 46 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.
- Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ranks 258 of 457 occupations in South Dakota by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- After federal, FICA and South Dakota income tax, retained pay for extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic on $49,620 is $42,050. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $47,732 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $50,370 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,740 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,620 |
| Top tenth earn over | $61,200 |
| This salary | $49,620 |
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 | $42,050 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $42,050 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$4,460 |
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 | $49,620 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$5,394 |
| 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 $49,620. The published range is $39,740 up to $61,200, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $42,050 take-home in South Dakota comes from $49,620. 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 258 of 457.
- Two cautions on $47,732, the adjusted value of that $49,620 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 258 of 457 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic in South Dakota the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $39,740 to $61,200. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $42,050, from $49,620, 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 258 of 457 locally, and the state ranks 16 of 46 for it.
- This $47,732 adjusted figure, worked from $49,620, 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 258 of 457 in the state. The occupation ranks 258 of 457 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $39,740 at the tenth percentile, $61,200 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 $47,732 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $42,050 of this wage reaches your account, because South Dakota takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 46 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 ($39,740 to $61,200) 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 $47,732 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 $42,050 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.