Social and Community Service Managers in South Dakota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$69,943
after federal, FICA and South Dakota tax
Tax takes
$16,927
19.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$79,395
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
$86,870
Kept after tax
$69,943
Worth in national money
$79,395
State rank
11
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. South Dakota's middle earner gets $86,870, putting the state 11 of 51 — about 8.06% ahead of the national figure.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in South Dakota. It ranks 62 out of 457 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $86,870 you keep $69,943 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $79,395 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $90,180, since top earners drag the number up.
- For social and community service managers, South Dakota sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $86,870, ranking 11 of 51 and running about 8.06% 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.
- Within South Dakota, social and community service managers ranks 62 of 457 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Retained pay in South Dakota is $69,943 after the full tax stack, from $86,870. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $79,395 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $90,180 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Social and Community Service Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $65,660 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $86,870 |
| Top tenth earn over | $117,590 |
| This salary | $86,870 |
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 | $69,943 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $69,943 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$7,419 |
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 | $86,870 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$10,247 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 88 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $86,870 as a midpoint for South Dakota, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $65,660 and the ninetieth is $117,590 — 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 $69,943, worked from $86,870. 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 62 of 457.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $79,395 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 62.
- The South Dakota median of $86,870 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $65,660 to $117,590. 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 $69,943, on $86,870 for work ranking 62 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 62 of 457 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $79,395, worked from $86,870, 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 62 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 $90,180 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $65,660 and the top tenth $117,590, so most people doing this work in South Dakota sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $79,395.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $69,943 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 $90,180. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($65,660 to $117,590) 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 $79,395 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 $69,943 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.