How much do Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining make in Sioux Falls, SD-MN?

Percentile spread

For Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining, the published 10th percentile is $40,100 and the 90th percentile is $61,110. The difference is $21,010, which is 43.5% 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 $44,950 to the 75th at $57,280, covers $12,330.

The mean annual wage is $50,840, which sits above the median of $48,250. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Sioux Falls, SD-MN median is 16% lower than the national median of $57,430 for Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining. In 2024 national prices the local median is $53,238, which is 7.3% lower than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is about the same as the South Dakota median of $48,250.

Sioux Falls, SD-MN covers more than one state. The state comparison uses South Dakota, the primary state on the BLS area record.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Sioux Falls, SD-MN is 90.631, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $48,250 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining at $53,238 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

One other metropolitan area within 200 miles publishes a annual median for Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining. Sioux Falls, SD-MN ranks 2nd of 2 on that median, counting itself. Distance is the great-circle mileage between Census Bureau internal points (U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 Gazetteer Files, Core Based Statistical Areas, internal points (INTPTLAT, INTPTLONG).).

• Omaha, NE-IA is 161 miles away, with a median of $59,980 and employment of 110. That median is 24.3% higher than the median here. In 2024 national prices it is $65,259, against $53,238 here.

Employment share

Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining accounts for 0.03% of wage-and-salary employment in Sioux Falls, SD-MN (50 of 178,590). Nationally the occupation is 0.02% of employment (34,480 of 155,495,730). The local share is 1.26 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.