Print Binding and Finishing Workers in South Dakota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$35,405
after federal, FICA and South Dakota tax
Tax takes
$5,945
14.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$40,189
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
$41,350
Kept after tax
$35,405
Worth in national money
$40,189
State rank
24
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. South Dakota is 24 of 50 states for print binding and finishing workers, with a middle wage of $41,350. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Within South Dakota this is lower-paid work. Of 457 occupations the state publishes figures for, print binding and finishing workers ranks 367. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $41,350 you keep $35,405 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $40,189 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $42,330, since top earners drag the number up.
- South Dakota ranks 24 of 50 for print binding and finishing workers at $41,350. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Against every occupation South Dakota reports, print binding and finishing workers ranks 367 of 457, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Retained pay in South Dakota is $35,405 after the full tax stack, from $41,350. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $40,189 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $42,330 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Print Binding and Finishing Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,220 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $41,350 |
| Top tenth earn over | $52,880 |
| This salary | $41,350 |
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 | $35,405 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $35,405 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,755 |
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 | $41,350 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,542 |
| 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 print binding and finishing workers in South Dakota earn under $41,350 and half over. The published range runs $35,220 at the tenth percentile to $52,880 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 $35,405, worked from $41,350. 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 367 of 457.
- Two cautions on $40,189, the adjusted value of that $41,350 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 367 of 457 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for print binding and finishing workers in South Dakota, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $35,220 to $52,880; 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 $35,405, on $41,350 for work ranking 367 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 367 of 457 in the state.
- This $40,189 adjusted figure, worked from $41,350, 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 367 of 457 in the state. The occupation ranks 367 of 457 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $35,220 and the top tenth $52,880, so most people doing this work in South Dakota sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $40,189 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $35,405 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. 50 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 ($35,220 to $52,880) 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 $40,189 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 $35,405 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.