Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other in South Dakota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,142
after federal, FICA and South Dakota tax
Tax takes
$7,348
15.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$46,702
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
$48,490
Kept after tax
$41,142
Worth in national money
$46,702
State rank
34
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. South Dakota pays this job around $48,490 at the midpoint, 34 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in South Dakota, this sits in the middle: 274 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 $48,490 you keep $41,142, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $46,702 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $52,670, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other the South Dakota median is $48,490, ranking 34 of 51 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.
- Installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other ranks 274 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 installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other on $48,490 is $41,142. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $46,702 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 $52,670 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,900 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,490 |
| Top tenth earn over | $77,110 |
| This salary | $48,490 |
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 | $41,142 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,142 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$4,364 |
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 | $48,490 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$5,278 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 88 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other in South Dakota earn under $48,490 and half over. The published range runs $33,900 at the tenth percentile to $77,110 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind South Dakota's $41,142, worked from $48,490. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 274 of 457.
- One number stands for prices across all of South Dakota, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $46,702, the adjusted value of that $48,490 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 274 of 457 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other in South Dakota, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $33,900 to $77,110; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- The South Dakota take-home of $41,142, on $48,490 for work ranking 274 of 457 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 274 of 457 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for South Dakota, so $46,702 — the adjusted value of that $48,490 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 274 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 $52,670 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?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $33,900, the highest tenth $77,110, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $46,702 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $41,142 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 $52,670. 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 ($33,900) and the ninetieth ($77,110) 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 $46,702 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 $41,142 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.