South Dakota · SOC 39-0000 · Annual, 2025
Personal care and service occupations in South Dakota
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 39-0000 in South Dakota, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 12,000 people in South Dakota worked in personal care and service occupations (SOC 39-0000), with an average annual wage of $37,180.
Employment in personal care and service occupations in South Dakota grew 7.2% from 2020 to 2025. This occupation group is 1.3× as concentrated in South Dakota as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.26). The average wage in this occupation group is 38.6% below the all-occupations average in South Dakota. Quarterly values, full occupation detail and projections to 2036 for South Dakota are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 12,000Employment, 2025
- $37,180Mean annual wage
- 2.6%Share of South Dakota jobs
- 1.26Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 12,800; 2005 12,800; 2006 12,900; 2007 13,300; 2008 13,300; 2009 13,300; 2010 13,400; 2011 13,400; 2012 13,600; 2013 13,700; 2014 13,900; 2015 14,100; 2016 14,200; 2017 14,500; 2018 13,900; 2019 13,200; 2020 11,200; 2021 11,400; 2022 11,400; 2023 11,700; 2024 11,800; 2025 12,000.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12,034 | $37,178 | 2.0% |
| 2024 | 11,793 | $36,043 | 1.1% |
| 2023 | 11,664 | $34,412 | 2.5% |
| 2022 | 11,376 | $32,893 | 0.5% |
| 2021 | 11,429 | $30,769 | 1.8% |
| 2020 | 11,226 | $29,605 | 14.9% |
| 2019 | 13,200 | $27,333 | 4.9% |
| 2018 | 13,877 | $27,155 | 4.1% |
| 2017 | 14,472 | $26,727 | 1.7% |
| 2016 | 14,232 | $26,425 | 1.2% |
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
Where these numbers come from
Reading these figures
The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Every occupation value is a DTG estimate: there is no published county or state census of occupations to report, so no value here is marked as published or estimated, and none carries a reliability score. Quarterly figures, county figures, detailed occupations and projected years are in the app.
How these figures are built
DTG’s industry employment fixes how many jobs there are in each industry in the state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ national industry-occupation matrix says how each industry is staffed, and the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey says how many people work in each occupation in the area and what they earn. DTG makes the three agree, so occupation employment sums to the same totals as industry employment. Employment is the annual average; the mean annual wage is the year’s total occupation wages divided by that average employment. The construction is described in full on the occupation data page.
Notes
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Personal care and service occupations in South Dakota, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for personal care and service occupations in South Dakota. A free account shows every detailed occupation in the group, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
County figures, file export and the API are on paid plans.