Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education salary in South Dakota

Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education in South Dakota earn a median of $51,050 a year (29% below the U.S. median of $72,040), based on about 3,360 jobs. Pay for the same job differs a lot by employer, experience, industry and city within South Dakota. These are wages of employees in the occupation, not a forecast for any individual.

The state's price level is 88.6 (U.S. average = 100), so a median of $51,050 here equals roughly $57,619 after adjusting for the state's price level.

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Fields of study linked to this career by the federal CIP-to-SOC crosswalk (U.S. Department of Education, NCES, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics; a classification crosswalk, and many workers entered by other routes): Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods · Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas · Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services · East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025, state estimates (employees only; self-employed workers are not included); price-level adjustment uses the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Price Parities (where 100 is the U.S. average; MajorPays' calculation). Wages are for an occupation in a state as a whole and vary widely by employer, experience, industry and place within the state. MajorPays selected and reorganized these figures; neither agency has approved or endorsed this presentation. See Data sources for each dataset's terms.