The 100 Highest Paying Jobs In South Dakota For 2023

By Chris Kolmar
Apr. 14, 2023

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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 Finance Services Director are the highest paid people in South Dakota.

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

  1. Finance Services Director
  2. Primary Care Pediatrician
  3. Clinical Psychiatrist
  4. Chief Medical Officer
  5. General Internist
  6. MD Physician-Dermatologist
  7. Internal Medicine Physician
  8. Vice President, Field Operations
  9. Physician, Ophthalmologist
  10. Family Practice MD

How we determined the highest paid jobs in South Dakota For 2023

To create our salary estimates, Zippia starts with data published in publicly available sources such as the most recently released data on March 2023 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 909 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 Finance Services Director $220,117 $174,000 339
2 Primary Care Pediatrician $216,712 $165,000 206
3 Clinical Psychiatrist $207,891 $152,000 103
4 Chief Medical Officer $203,891 $149,000 139
5 General Internist $203,603 $149,000 117
6 Md Physician-Dermatologist $203,046 $145,000 173
7 Internal Medicine Physician $201,018 $145,000 175
8 Vice President, Field Operations $195,463 $136,000 208
9 Physician, Ophthalmologist $194,210 $135,000 155
10 Family Practice Md $193,987 $133,000 123
11 Physician $192,397 $133,000 176
12 Staff Physician $191,695 $134,000 147
13 Resident Physician In Radiology $191,220 $132,000 178
14 Hospitalist Medical Director $190,745 $130,000 175
15 Family Medicine Physician $190,618 $134,000 119
16 Board Certified Orthodontist $189,887 $135,000 118
17 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Hospitalist $189,132 $129,000 158
18 Senior Vice President, Engineering $188,534 $135,000 122
19 Pain Medicine Physician $188,245 $128,000 165
20 President Of Operations $187,823 $128,000 181
21 Acute Care Physician $186,120 $129,000 294
22 Interventional Pain Physician $185,921 $126,000 166
23 Group Creative Director $185,330 $125,000 185
24 Physician Liaison $184,937 $125,000 175
25 Family Physician $184,567 $126,000 163
26 Senior Vice President-Operations $184,397 $126,000 166
27 Physician Extender $180,751 $119,000 232
28 General Surgery Physician Assistant $180,184 $119,000 139
29 Family Practice Physician $179,541 $124,000 184
30 Orthopaedic Physician Assistant $179,101 $119,000 170
31 Chief Operating Officer, Chief Technology Officer $178,842 $125,000 226
32 Senior Physician $178,700 $120,000 179
33 Associate Professor, Physician $177,989 $118,000 209
34 Allergy Physician $177,929 $118,000 155
35 Director Of Enterprise Sales $176,407 $121,000 203
36 Medical Consultant $175,537 $117,000 177
37 Executive Director, Information Technology $173,125 $118,000 219
38 Nuclear Medicine Physician $170,731 $111,000 117
39 Primary Care Physician $170,560 $113,000 279
40 Chief Strategy Officer $169,944 $114,000 108
41 Geriatric Physician $169,810 $110,000 155
42 Pain Management Physician $168,827 $108,000 236
43 Sports Medicine Physician $168,817 $109,000 172
44 Pediatric Physician Assistant $167,970 $110,000 179
45 Director Information Technology Infrastructure $167,934 $120,000 160
46 Vice President, Corporate Development $166,443 $112,000 164
47 Medical Staff Physician $166,376 $107,000 179
48 Attending Physician $164,712 $108,000 167
49 Vice President, Product Management $164,443 $116,000 199
50 Executive Vice President Of Operations $163,977 $106,000 261
51 Physical Medicine Physician $163,895 $104,000 177
52 Business Services Vice President $163,822 $118,000 257
53 Chiropractic Physician $163,803 $104,000 224
54 Senior Vice President Of Marketing $163,174 $109,000 159
55 Physician-Internist $161,882 $103,000 160
56 Occupational Medicine Physician $161,787 $102,000 227
57 President & Chief Technology Officer $160,629 $108,000 244
58 Executive Vice President Marketing $160,619 $103,000 217
59 Revenue Officer $160,610 $100,000 116
60 Public Health Physician $159,053 $99,000 237
61 Director, Product Engineering $158,587 $117,000 189
62 Director, Hardware Engineering $156,772 $115,000 100
63 Executive Vice President $155,700 $98,000 115
64 Global Supply Chain Director $155,160 $109,000 276
65 General Surgeon $154,183 $97,000 111
66 Vice President & General Manager $154,134 $101,000 270
67 New Product Development Manager $153,499 $107,000 215
68 General Internal Medicine Physician $152,928 $93,000 301
69 President & Chief Operating Officer $152,795 $95,000 181
70 Vice President, Business Operations $152,249 $103,000 286
71 Chief Administrative Officer $152,101 $99,000 138
72 Hospitalist Physician Assistant $151,232 $97,000 178
73 Vice President Of Professional Services $151,072 $103,000 172
74 Radiologist Physician $150,617 $96,000 155
75 In-House Physician $150,293 $91,000 130
76 Executive Vice President Of Sales $150,265 $105,000 120
77 Vice President Of Sales & Operations $150,024 $103,000 188
78 Engineering Production Operations Director $150,011 $101,000 431
79 Director Of Manufacturing Engineering $149,093 $105,000 311
80 Senior Director Of Engineering $148,585 $99,000 119
81 Vice President-Project Management $148,246 $98,000 190
82 Emergency Medicine, Physician Assistant $147,792 $93,000 194
83 Director, Applications $147,456 $113,000 210
84 Vice President, Marketing & Development $147,302 $95,000 270
85 Vice President, Products & Marketing $146,488 $103,000 167
86 Process Development Director $146,410 $105,000 304
87 Medical Safety Director $146,370 $90,000 186
88 Clinic Physician Director $146,240 $93,000 290
89 Global Director $145,128 $97,000 207
90 Marketing Vice President $144,676 $99,000 145
91 Director, Global Marketing $143,359 $97,000 126
92 Vice President Information Systems $143,140 $93,000 212
93 Director Of Manufacturing Operations $142,924 $105,000 358
94 Senior Director, Operations $142,673 $99,000 169
95 Surgical Physician Assistant $142,585 $88,000 199
96 Development Vice President $142,175 $95,000 175
97 Emergency Management Director $141,769 $84,000 117
98 Correctional Officer Chief $141,647 $85,000 105
99 Supply Chain Vice President $141,475 $98,000 104
100 Vice President Of Marketing & Communications $140,472 $89,000 199
Editor’s Note: Article updated for 2023. This is our sixth time ranking the highest paying jobs in South Dakota

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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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