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Total annual payroll, 2017 ($1,000) - (Thousands of USD)
County
Value
Aurora
21,659
Beadle
249,368
Bennett
21,095
Bon Homme
30,558
Brookings
546,372
Brown
726,571
Brule
62,662
Buffalo
4,531
Butte
76,419
Campbell
12,887
Charles Mix
67,161
Clark
21,773
Clay
93,427
Codington
489,123
Corson
6,612
Custer
51,647
Davison
372,246
Day
44,757
Deuel
42,273
Dewey
21,635
Douglas
28,151
Edmunds
31,273
Fall River
147,887
Faulk
14,847
Grant
137,530
Gregory
29,726
Haakon
26,616
Hamlin
43,506
Hand
38,654
Hanson
13,755
Harding
17,066
Hughes
241,119
Hutchinson
74,955
Hyde
18,005
Jackson
7,141
Jerauld
44,755
Jones
8,386
Kingsbury
45,847
Lake
141,008
Lawrence
311,831
Lincoln
914,495
Lyman
15,562
Marshall
41,665
McCook
31,105
McPherson
9,633
Meade
246,767
Mellette
3,625
Miner
19,245
Minnehaha
5,473,871
Moody
57,202
Pennington
1,953,885
Perkins
25,221
Potter
31,449
Roberts
63,808
Sanborn
11,175
Spink
46,821
Stanley
34,988
Sully
11,720
Todd
33,737
Tripp
55,219
Turner
52,794
Union
479,139
Walworth
62,298
Yankton
458,448
Ziebach
9,547
Value for South Dakota (Thousands of USD): 14,719,422
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns. Updated annually. County Business Patterns (CBP) Includes U.S., States, and Counties; includes Puerto Rico and Municipios (county-equivalents).
An establishment is a single physical location at which business is conducted or where services or industrial operations are performed. It is not necessarily identical with a company or enterprise, which may consist of one establishment or more. When two or more activities are conducted at a single location under a single ownership, all activities are generally grouped together as a single establishment and classified on the basis of its major activity. Establishments with paid employees include all locations with paid employees any time during the year. (A separate data item, Nonemployer establishments, provides the number of establishments without paid employees, (mostly self-employed individuals.) Establishment counts represent the number of locations with paid employees any time during the year. This series excludes government establishments except for wholesale liquor establishments (NAICS 4248), retail liquor stores (NAICS 44531), Book publishers (NAICS 511130), Federally-chartered savings institutions (NAICS 522120), Federally-chartered credit unions (NAICS 522130), and hospitals (NAICS 622).
Paid employment (Mid-march employment) consists of full- and part-time employees, including salaried officers and executives of corporations, who are on the payroll in the pay period including March 12. Included are employees on paid sick leave, holidays, and vacations; not included are proprietors and partners of unincorporated businesses.
Payroll includes all forms of compensation, such as salaries, wages, commissions, dismissal pay, bonuses, vacation allowances, sick-leave pay, and employee contributions to qualified pension plans paid during the year to all employees. For corporations, payroll includes amounts paid to officers and executives; for unincorporated businesses, it does not include profit or other compensation of proprietors or partners. Payroll is reported before deductions for social security, income tax, insurance, union dues, etc. This definition of payroll is the same as that used by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on Form 941 as taxable Medicare Wages and Tips (even if not subject to income or FICA tax). First-quarter payroll consists of payroll during the January-to-March quarter.
Scope and Methodology:
Figures for employer establishments with paid employees for the U.S. Puerto Rico and the Island Areas are published in County Business Patterns (CBP), an annual statistical series. Basic data items are extracted from the Business Register, a file of all known single and multiestablishment companies maintained and updated by the Bureau of the Census from various Census Bureau programs, such as the 5-year Economic Census, the annual Company Organization Survey, the Annual Survey of Manufactures, and Current Business Surveys, as well as from administrative records of the Internal Revenue Service, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Social Security Administration.
Employers without a fixed location within a state (or of unknown county location) are included under a "Statewide" classification at the end of the county tables. This incomplete detail causes only a slight understatement of county employment.