How much do Atmospheric and Space Scientists make in Rapid City, SD?

Percentile spread

For Atmospheric and Space Scientists, the published 10th percentile is $67,600 and the 90th percentile is $115,920. The difference is $48,320, which is 46.3% of the median. Ten percent of measured wages fall below the 10th percentile and ten percent fall above the 90th. How to read a percentile.

The middle half of the distribution, from the 25th percentile at $69,280 to the 75th at $104,380, covers $35,100.

The mean annual wage is $94,780, which sits below the median of $104,380. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Rapid City, SD median is 5.4% higher than the national median of $99,070 for Atmospheric and Space Scientists. In 2024 national prices the local median is $117,070, which is 18.2% higher than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 32.3% higher than the South Dakota median of $78,900.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Rapid City, SD is 89.160, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $104,380 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Atmospheric and Space Scientists at $117,070 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

No other metropolitan area within 200 miles has a published annual median for Atmospheric and Space Scientists in the May 2025 tables. A wage from farther away is not filled in. When a wage is not published.

Employment share

Atmospheric and Space Scientists accounts for 0.08% of wage-and-salary employment in Rapid City, SD (60 of 73,820). Nationally the occupation is 0.01% of employment (10,000 of 155,495,730). The local share is 12.64 times the national share. That ratio is the location quotient computed from these May 2025 employment counts. It is not copied from the location-quotient column in the BLS bulk file.