Sales Managers in South Dakota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$104,468
after federal, FICA and South Dakota tax
Tax takes
$31,892
23.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$118,586
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
$136,360
Kept after tax
$104,468
Worth in national money
$118,586
State rank
23
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. South Dakota is 23 of 50 states for sales managers, with a middle wage of $136,360. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 457 occupations South Dakota reports, sales managers comes in at 14 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Here is where South Dakota does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $136,360 you keep $104,468, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $118,586 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $141,590, because the best-paid pull it up.
- South Dakota ranks 23 of 50 for sales managers at $136,360. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Sales managers ranks 14 of 457 occupations by median in South Dakota, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- After federal, FICA and South Dakota income tax, retained pay for sales managers on $136,360 is $104,468. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $118,586 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 $141,590 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Sales Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $72,510 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $136,360 |
| Top tenth earn over | $219,050 |
| This salary | $136,360 |
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 | $104,468 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $104,468 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$11,081 |
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 | $136,360 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$15,754 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 88 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $136,360 as a midpoint for South Dakota, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $72,510 and the ninetieth is $219,050 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind South Dakota's $104,468, worked from $136,360. 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 14 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 $118,586, the adjusted value of that $136,360 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 14 of 457 in the state.
- The South Dakota median of $136,360 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $72,510 to $219,050. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The South Dakota take-home of $104,468, on $136,360 for work ranking 14 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 14 of 457 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for South Dakota, so $118,586 — the adjusted value of that $136,360 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 14 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 $141,590 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 $72,510, the highest tenth $219,050, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $118,586 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $104,468 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. 50 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 $141,590. 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 ($72,510) and the ninetieth ($219,050) 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 $118,586 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 $104,468 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.