The 100 Highest Paying Jobs In South Dakota For 2024

Ever wonder who gets paid the most? Or how much your dentist makes for all the pain they put you through?

We had that same burning desire to know more about the highest paid professions in South Dakota. And if you can’t tell by that sentence, we’re a bit of what you’d call data nerds.

After the data science team did a thorough analysis of the data, we discovered that Consultant And Sales Representative are the highest paid people in South Dakota.

Here’s a quick look at the top ten highest paying jobs in South Dakota:

How we determined the highest paid jobs in South Dakota For 2024

To create our salary estimates, Zippia starts with data published in publicly available sources such as the most recently released data on March 2024 from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Foreign Labor Certification Data Center (FLC), Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and others. The data science team then supplements that data by continuously scanning through millions of job postings each day to find published salaries. We match these published salaries to the companies, locations, and job titles in other datasets. Finally, the data science team calculates a weighted average of these inputs to produce an estimated salary for the particular job title in South Dakota.

In total, the team looked at the salary data set for all 993 jobs in South Dakota in order to identify those that get paid the most.

Detailed List Of Highest Paying Jobs In South Dakota

Rank	Job Title	Average Salary	Entry Level Salary	# Of People
1	Consultant And Sales Representative	$230,358	$184,000	363
2	Finance Services Director	$220,117	$174,000	339
3	Primary Care Pediatrician	$216,712	$165,000	206
4	Vice President/managing Director	$210,827	$156,000	205
5	Clinical Psychiatrist	$207,891	$152,000	103
6	Chief Medical Officer	$203,891	$149,000	139
7	General Internist	$203,603	$149,000	117
8	Md Physician-Dermatologist	$203,046	$145,000	173
9	Internal Medicine Physician	$201,018	$145,000	175
10	Operator And Truck Driver	$198,997	$141,000	1,427
11	Vice President, Field Operations	$195,463	$136,000	208
12	Physician, Ophthalmologist	$194,210	$135,000	155
13	Family Practice Md	$193,987	$133,000	123
14	Physician	$192,397	$133,000	176
15	Staff Physician	$191,695	$134,000	147
16	Resident Physician In Radiology	$191,220	$132,000	178
17	Hospitalist Medical Director	$190,745	$130,000	175
18	Family Medicine Physician	$190,618	$134,000	119
19	Board Certified Orthodontist	$189,887	$135,000	118
20	Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Hospitalist	$189,132	$129,000	158
21	Senior Vice President, Engineering	$188,534	$135,000	122
22	Pain Medicine Physician	$188,245	$128,000	165
23	President Of Operations	$187,823	$128,000	181
24	Acute Care Physician	$186,120	$129,000	294
25	Interventional Pain Physician	$185,921	$126,000	166
26	Group Creative Director	$185,330	$125,000	185
27	Physician Liaison	$184,937	$125,000	175
28	Family Physician	$184,567	$126,000	163
29	Senior Vice President-Operations	$184,397	$126,000	166
30	Physician Extender	$180,751	$119,000	232
31	General Surgery Physician Assistant	$180,184	$119,000	139
32	Family Practice Physician	$179,541	$124,000	184
33	Orthopaedic Physician Assistant	$179,101	$119,000	170
34	Chief Operating Officer, Chief Technology Officer	$178,842	$125,000	226
35	Senior Physician	$178,700	$120,000	179
36	Associate Professor, Physician	$177,989	$118,000	209
37	Allergy Physician	$177,929	$118,000	155
38	Director Of Enterprise Sales	$176,407	$121,000	203
39	President/chief Executive Officer	$175,544	$116,000	219
40	Medical Consultant	$175,537	$117,000	177
41	President And General Manager	$175,227	$119,000	222
42	Executive Director, Information Technology	$173,125	$118,000	219
43	Anesthesiologist/physician	$171,304	$112,000	155
44	Nuclear Medicine Physician	$170,731	$111,000	117
45	Primary Care Physician	$170,560	$113,000	279
46	Chief Strategy Officer	$169,944	$114,000	108
47	Geriatric Physician	$169,810	$110,000	155
48	Pain Management Physician	$168,827	$108,000	236
49	Sports Medicine Physician	$168,817	$109,000	172
50	Pediatric Physician Assistant	$167,970	$110,000	179
51	Director Information Technology Infrastructure	$167,934	$120,000	160
52	Vice President, Corporate Development	$166,443	$112,000	164
53	Medical Staff Physician	$166,376	$107,000	179
54	Owner/operator	$165,492	$116,000	1,642
55	Attending Physician	$164,712	$108,000	167
56	Vice President, Product Management	$164,443	$116,000	199
57	Executive Vice President Of Operations	$163,977	$106,000	261
58	Physical Medicine Physician	$163,895	$104,000	177
59	Business Services Vice President	$163,822	$118,000	257
60	Chiropractic Physician	$163,803	$104,000	224
61	Senior Vice President Of Marketing	$163,174	$109,000	159
62	Ob/gyn Physician	$162,707	$103,000	178
63	Physician-Internist	$161,882	$103,000	160
64	Occupational Medicine Physician	$161,787	$102,000	227
65	President & Chief Technology Officer	$160,629	$108,000	244
66	Executive Vice President Marketing	$160,619	$103,000	217
67	Revenue Officer	$160,610	$100,000	116
68	Public Health Physician	$159,053	$99,000	237
69	Director, Product Engineering	$158,587	$117,000	189
70	Director, Hardware Engineering	$156,772	$115,000	100
71	Executive Vice President	$155,700	$98,000	115
72	Global Supply Chain Director	$155,160	$109,000	276
73	General Surgeon	$154,183	$97,000	111
74	Vice President & General Manager	$154,134	$101,000	270
75	New Product Development Manager	$153,499	$107,000	215
76	General Internal Medicine Physician	$152,928	$93,000	301
77	President & Chief Operating Officer	$152,795	$95,000	181
78	Vice President, Business Operations	$152,249	$103,000	286
79	Chief Administrative Officer	$152,101	$99,000	138
80	Hospitalist Physician Assistant	$151,232	$97,000	178
81	Vice President Of Professional Services	$151,072	$103,000	172
82	Radiologist Physician	$150,617	$96,000	155
83	In-House Physician	$150,293	$91,000	130
84	Executive Vice President Of Sales	$150,265	$105,000	120
85	Vice President Of Sales & Operations	$150,024	$103,000	188
86	Engineering Production Operations Director	$150,011	$101,000	431
87	Vice President, Operations And Finance	$149,095	$103,000	257
88	Director Of Manufacturing Engineering	$149,093	$105,000	311
89	Senior Director Of Engineering	$148,585	$99,000	119
90	Vice President-Project Management	$148,246	$98,000	190
91	Emergency Medicine, Physician Assistant	$147,792	$93,000	194
92	Director, Applications	$147,456	$113,000	210
93	Vice President, Marketing & Development	$147,302	$95,000	270
94	Vice President, Products & Marketing	$146,488	$103,000	167
95	Process Development Director	$146,410	$105,000	304
96	Medical Safety Director	$146,370	$90,000	186
97	Clinic Physician Director	$146,240	$93,000	290
98	Vice President Of Operations And Engineering	$145,901	$103,000	255
99	Vice President Of Research And Development	$145,350	$100,000	242
100	Global Director	$145,128	$97,000	207

Editor’s Note: Article updated for 2024. This is our sixth time ranking the highest paying jobs in South Dakota

Author

Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar is a co-founder of Zippia and the editor-in-chief of the Zippia career advice blog. He has hired over 50 people in his career, been hired five times, and wants to help you land your next job. His research has been featured on the New York Times, Thrillist, VOX, The Atlantic, and a host of local news. More recently, he's been quoted on USA Today, BusinessInsider, and CNBC.

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