Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel in South Dakota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$51,812
after federal, FICA and South Dakota tax
Tax takes
$9,958
16.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$58,814
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
$61,770
Kept after tax
$51,812
Worth in national money
$58,814
State rank
33
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. South Dakota is 33 of 51 states for this job, with a middle wage of $61,770. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Against other work in South Dakota, this sits in the middle: 168 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 $61,770 you keep $51,812, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $58,814 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $65,120, because the best-paid pull it up.
- South Dakota ranks 33 of 51 for sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel at $61,770. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel ranks 168 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 sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel on $61,770 is $51,812. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $58,814 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 $65,120 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,790 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $61,770 |
| Top tenth earn over | $99,490 |
| This salary | $61,770 |
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 | $51,812 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,812 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$5,496 |
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 | $61,770 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$6,919 |
| 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 sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel in South Dakota earn under $61,770 and half over. The published range runs $37,790 at the tenth percentile to $99,490 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $51,812 take-home in South Dakota comes from $61,770. 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 168 of 457.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $58,814 uses one figure for the whole of South Dakota. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 457 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 168.
- Figures are distribution medians for sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel in South Dakota, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $37,790 to $99,490; 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.
- Retained pay of $51,812, from $61,770, 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 168 of 457 locally, and the state ranks 33 of 51 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $58,814, worked from $61,770, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular South Dakota address, on work sitting at 168 of 457 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $65,120, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $37,790, the highest tenth $99,490, 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 $58,814 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $51,812 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.
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 $65,120. 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 ($37,790) and the ninetieth ($99,490) 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 $58,814 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 $51,812 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.