Information and Record Clerks, All Other in South Dakota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$44,999
after federal, FICA and South Dakota tax
Tax takes
$8,291
15.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$51,080
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
$53,290
Kept after tax
$44,999
Worth in national money
$51,080
State rank
13
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. South Dakota's middle earner gets $53,290, putting the state 13 of 50 — about 7.66% ahead of the national figure.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 221 among 457 occupations South Dakota publishes pay for.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $53,290 you keep $44,999 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $51,080 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $61,760, since top earners drag the number up.
- For information and record clerks, all other, South Dakota sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $53,290, ranking 13 of 50 and running about 7.66% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Position 221 of 457 in South Dakota places information and record clerks, all other in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Retained pay in South Dakota is $44,999 after the full tax stack, from $53,290. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $51,080 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $61,760 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Information and Record Clerks, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,840 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $53,290 |
| Top tenth earn over | $79,440 |
| This salary | $53,290 |
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 | $44,999 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $44,999 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$4,773 |
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 | $53,290 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$5,772 |
| 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 $53,290. The published range is $37,840 up to $79,440, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $44,999 take-home in South Dakota comes from $53,290. 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 221 of 457.
- Two cautions on $51,080, the adjusted value of that $53,290 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 221 of 457 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for information and record clerks, all other in South Dakota the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $37,840 to $79,440. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $44,999, from $53,290, 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 221 of 457 locally, and the state ranks 13 of 50 for it.
- This $51,080 adjusted figure, worked from $53,290, 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 221 of 457 in the state. The occupation ranks 221 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 $61,760 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $37,840 at the bottom tenth to $79,440 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $51,080.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $44,999 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 50 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 $61,760. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($37,840) and the ninetieth ($79,440) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
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 $51,080 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 $44,999 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.