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CNA Salary in South Dakota

How much does a CNA make in South Dakota?

As of July 01, 2026, the average salary for a CNA in South Dakota is $31,550 per year, which breaks down to an hourly rate of $15.

However, a CNA's salary can vary significantly. Here’s a look at the typical salary range:

Top Earners (90th percentile): $34,588
Majority Range (25th-75th percentile): $28,310 to $33,140
Entry-Level (10th percentile): $25,360

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CNA Salaries by Percentile

	Annual Salary	Monthly Pay	Weekly Pay	Hourly Wage
75th Percentile	$33,140	$2,762	$637	$16
Average	$31,550	$2,629	$607	$15
25th Percentile	$28,310	$2,359	$544	$14

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Key Factors That Influence CNA Salaries

A CNA's salary isn't a fixed number. It's shaped by several important factors. Below, we'll explore how your years of experience, geographic location, and company size can directly affect your earning potential.

How Experience Level Affects CNA Salaries?

Experience is a primary driver of a CNA's salary. As you build your skills and take on more complex tasks, your compensation generally increases. Here's how the average salary grows at different career stages:

CNA (0-0 years): $31,544
Nursing Assistant (0-1 years): $31,800
Patient Care Associate (1-3 years): $35,242

Job Role	Years of Experience	Average Salary
CNA	0-0 years	$31,544
Nursing Assistant	0-1 years	$31,800
Patient Care Associate	1-3 years	$35,242

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How Do CNA Salaries Vary from State to State?

Your salary can change significantly depending on where you work. States with a higher cost of living and strong industrial sectors often pay more to attract CNAs. For example, consider the average annual salaries in these key locations:

District of Columbia: $38,430.
California: $38,290.
Massachusetts: $37,780.

District of Columbia $38,430 California $38,290 Massachusetts $37,780 Washington $37,640 New Jersey $37,630 Alaska $37,580 Connecticut $37,100 New York $36,900

Hawaii $36,280 Rhode Island $35,990 Maryland $35,790 Minnesota $35,520 Colorado $35,420 Illinois $35,380 Oregon $35,250 Delaware $35,150

New Hampshire $35,090 Virginia $34,960 Pennsylvania $34,560 Nevada $34,360 North Dakota $34,290 Michigan $34,190 Wisconsin $34,150 Vermont $34,070

Texas $33,860 Maine $33,850 Arizona $33,830 Ohio $33,800 Georgia $33,480 Indiana $33,320 Wyoming $33,290 Utah $33,240

Iowa $33,220 Kansas $33,050 Louisiana $33,010 North Carolina $32,990 Missouri $32,980 Florida $32,850 Montana $32,770 Nebraska $32,700

Kentucky $32,670 South Carolina $32,530 Tennessee $32,440 Idaho $32,410 New Mexico $32,150 Oklahoma $32,100 Alabama $31,890 South Dakota $31,550

Arkansas $31,360 West Virginia $31,260 Mississippi $30,960

Top Paying Cities for CNAs

Salaries can also vary between different cities. Major metropolitan areas or cities with a high demand for technicians often offer more competitive pay. Here are a few examples of average annual salaries in different U.S. cities:

Alcester: $31,880
Aurora: $32,050
Baltic: $31,700

Alcester, SD $31,880 Aurora, SD $32,050 Baltic, SD $31,700 Beresford, SD $31,800 Brandon, SD $31,640 Brookings, SD $32,110 Burbank, SD $31,760 Canistota, SD $31,810

Canton, SD $31,720 Centerville, SD $31,800 Chancellor, SD $31,720 Chester, SD $31,800 Colman, SD $31,900 Colton, SD $31,770 Crooks, SD $31,680 Davis, SD $31,760

Dell Rapids, SD $31,760 Egan, SD $31,850 Elk Point, SD $31,660 Elkton, SD $32,070 Fairview, SD $31,770 Flandreau, SD $31,950 Freeman, SD $31,910 Garretson, SD $31,710

Gayville, SD $31,970 Harrisburg, SD $31,660 Hartford, SD $31,710 Hudson, SD $31,790 Humboldt, SD $31,750 Hurley, SD $31,800 Irene, SD $31,890 Jefferson, SD $31,550

Lennox, SD $31,720 Lesterville, SD $31,940 Lyons, SD $31,710 Madison, SD $31,960 Marion, SD $31,820 Menno, SD $31,930 Mission Hill, SD $31,950 Monroe, SD $31,790

Belle Fourche, SD $31,910 Black Hawk, SD $30,930 Box Elder, SD $30,970 Buffalo, SD $31,850 Buffalo Gap, SD $31,600 Camp Crook, SD $31,880 Caputa, SD $31,120 Custer, SD $31,530

Deadwood, SD $31,340 Edgemont, SD $31,830 Enning, SD $31,590 Fairburn, SD $31,240 Fort Meade, SD $31,240 Hermosa, SD $31,120 Hill City, SD $31,330 Hot Springs, SD $31,810

Howes, SD $31,660 Interior, SD $31,710 Keystone, SD $31,090 Kyle, SD $31,770 Lead, SD $31,630 Ludlow, SD $31,980 Manderson, SD $31,830 Mud Butte, SD $31,680

Nemo, SD $31,130 Newell, SD $31,740 New Underwood, SD $31,120 Nisland, SD $31,810 Oelrichs, SD $31,740 Oglala, SD $31,800 Oral, SD $31,720 Owanka, SD $31,280

Piedmont, SD $30,960 Pine Ridge, SD $31,860 Porcupine, SD $31,760 Pringle, SD $31,630 Quinn, SD $31,660 Redig, SD $31,620 Saint Onge, SD $31,710 Scenic, SD $31,490

Smithwick, SD $31,760 Spearfish, SD $31,860 Sturgis, SD $31,140 Union Center, SD $31,610 Vale, SD $31,510 Wall, SD $31,620 Wasta, SD $31,460 White Owl, SD $31,670

Whitewood, SD $31,580 Wounded Knee, SD $31,830 Leola, SD $32,020 Long Lake, SD $32,070 Mansfield, SD $32,000 Mellette, SD $32,030 Northville, SD $31,990 Onaka, SD $31,870

Orient, SD $31,920 Pierpont, SD $32,030 Redfield, SD $32,080 Rockham, SD $31,950 Roscoe, SD $31,900 Selby, SD $31,840 Seneca, SD $31,850 Stratford, SD $32,030

Tolstoy, SD $31,850 Tulare, SD $32,030 Turton, SD $32,030 Warner, SD $32,070 Westport, SD $32,020 Pierre, SD $29,250 Agar, SD $30,010 Belvidere, SD $31,660

Blunt, SD $29,250 Burke, SD $31,910 Colome, SD $31,870 Dallas, SD $31,860 Draper, SD $30,880 Fort Pierre, SD $29,330 Gregory, SD $31,890 Hamill, SD $31,810

Harrold, SD $29,420 Hayes, SD $31,330 Herrick, SD $31,890 Holabird, SD $30,080 Ideal, SD $31,810 Kadoka, SD $31,700 Kennebec, SD $31,340 Long Valley, SD $31,700

Lower Brule, SD $31,300 Martin, SD $31,770 Midland, SD $31,590 Milesville, SD $31,610 Mission, SD $31,840 Murdo, SD $31,400 Norris, SD $31,740 Okaton, SD $31,660

Okreek, SD $31,820 Onida, SD $29,530 Parmelee, SD $31,800 Philip, SD $31,660 Presho, SD $31,110 Reliance, SD $31,830 Rosebud, SD $31,870 Saint Charles, SD $31,930

Saint Francis, SD $31,810 Tuthill, SD $31,730 Vivian, SD $30,970 Wanblee, SD $31,760 White River, SD $31,740 Winner, SD $31,840 Witten, SD $31,780 Wood, SD $31,740

Mobridge, SD $31,850 Bison, SD $31,770 Bullhead, SD $32,010 Cherry Creek, SD $31,690 Dupree, SD $31,700 Eagle Butte, SD $31,730 Faith, SD $31,690 Glencross, SD $31,710

Glenham, SD $31,860 Herreid, SD $31,980 Isabel, SD $31,710 Keldron, SD $31,860 Lantry, SD $31,740 Lemmon, SD $31,980 Little Eagle, SD $32,010 Lodgepole, SD $31,890

Mc Intosh, SD $31,910 Mc Laughlin, SD $31,880 Meadow, SD $31,700 Morristown, SD $31,940 Mound City, SD $31,930 Pollock, SD $32,050 Prairie City, SD $31,810 Ralph, SD $31,920

Reva, SD $31,810 Ridgeview, SD $31,740 Timber Lake, SD $31,760 Trail City, SD $31,750 Wakpala, SD $31,880 Walker, SD $31,930 Watauga, SD $31,860 Whitehorse, SD $31,780

Rapid City, SD $30,930 Ellsworth Afb, SD $30,930 Allen, SD $31,770 Batesland, SD $31,780 Montrose, SD $31,810 North Sioux City, SD $31,500 Nunda, SD $31,950 Oldham, SD $32,020

Olivet, SD $31,940 Parker, SD $31,770 Ramona, SD $31,960 Renner, SD $31,660 Rowena, SD $31,640 Rutland, SD $31,920 Salem, SD $31,920 Scotland, SD $31,990

Sinai, SD $32,120 Springfield, SD $32,030 Tabor, SD $32,010 Tea, SD $31,680 Trent, SD $31,800 Tyndall, SD $32,000 Utica, SD $31,940 Valley Springs, SD $31,660

Vermillion, SD $31,950 Viborg, SD $31,880 Volga, SD $32,040 Volin, SD $31,920 Wakonda, SD $31,880 Wentworth, SD $31,910 Winfred, SD $31,920 Worthing, SD $31,710

Yankton, SD $32,070 Sioux Falls, SD $31,640 Vienna, SD $32,100 Wallace, SD $32,080 Waubay, SD $32,070 Webster, SD $32,070 White, SD $32,120 Willow Lake, SD $32,140

Wilmot, SD $32,100 Mitchell, SD $32,100 Alexandria, SD $31,980 Alpena, SD $32,040 Armour, SD $31,970 Artesian, SD $32,030 Avon, SD $31,980 Bonesteel, SD $31,920

Bridgewater, SD $31,900 Canova, SD $31,940 Carpenter, SD $32,110 Carthage, SD $32,040 Cavour, SD $32,080 Chamberlain, SD $31,940 Corsica, SD $31,980 Dante, SD $31,960

Delmont, SD $31,960 Dimock, SD $32,000 Emery, SD $31,950 Ethan, SD $32,020 Fairfax, SD $31,930 Fedora, SD $32,010 Fort Thompson, SD $31,560 Fulton, SD $32,010

Gann Valley, SD $31,870 Geddes, SD $31,930 Harrison, SD $31,960 Highmore, SD $31,340 Stephan, SD $31,480 Hitchcock, SD $32,060 Howard, SD $32,020 Huron, SD $32,170

Iroquois, SD $32,090 Kaylor, SD $32,030 Kimball, SD $31,940 Lake Andes, SD $31,980 Lane, SD $32,110 Letcher, SD $32,020 Marty, SD $32,090 Miller, SD $31,970

Mount Vernon, SD $32,000 New Holland, SD $32,050 Oacoma, SD $31,910 Parkston, SD $32,010 Pickstown, SD $32,030 Plankinton, SD $31,990 Platte, SD $31,940 Pukwana, SD $31,920

Ree Heights, SD $31,760 Saint Lawrence, SD $31,970 Spencer, SD $31,940 Stickney, SD $31,970 Tripp, SD $31,980 Virgil, SD $32,010 Wagner, SD $31,990 Wessington, SD $31,990

Wessington Springs, SD $31,980 White Lake, SD $31,950 Wolsey, SD $32,050 Woonsocket, SD $32,040 Yale, SD $32,110 Aberdeen, SD $32,110 Akaska, SD $31,830 Amherst, SD $32,060

Andover, SD $32,020 Ashton, SD $32,010 Barnard, SD $32,060 Bath, SD $32,050 Bowdle, SD $31,890 Brentford, SD $32,070 Britton, SD $32,150 Claremont, SD $32,040

Columbia, SD $32,000 Conde, SD $32,030 Cresbard, SD $31,950 Doland, SD $32,100 Eureka, SD $32,000 Faulkton, SD $31,950 Ferney, SD $32,150 Frankfort, SD $32,100

Frederick, SD $32,060 Gettysburg, SD $31,650 Groton, SD $32,050 Hecla, SD $32,110 Hosmer, SD $31,950 Houghton, SD $31,970 Hoven, SD $31,860 Ipswich, SD $31,980

Java, SD $31,840 Langford, SD $32,020 Lebanon, SD $31,700 Watertown, SD $32,170 Arlington, SD $32,080 Astoria, SD $32,130 Badger, SD $32,140 Big Stone City, SD $32,180

Bradley, SD $32,070 Brandt, SD $32,110 Bristol, SD $32,050 Bruce, SD $32,080 Bryant, SD $32,120 Castlewood, SD $32,100 Claire City, SD $32,150 Clark, SD $32,130

Clear Lake, SD $32,110 Corona, SD $32,150 De Smet, SD $32,110 Eden, SD $32,050 Erwin, SD $32,090 Estelline, SD $32,100 Florence, SD $32,090 Garden City, SD $32,090

Gary, SD $32,130 Goodwin, SD $32,070 Grenville, SD $32,040 Hayti, SD $32,110 Hazel, SD $32,100 Henry, SD $32,100 Kranzburg, SD $32,220 Labolt, SD $32,080

Lake City, SD $32,110 Lake Norden, SD $32,130 Lake Preston, SD $32,100 Marvin, SD $32,040 Milbank, SD $32,180 New Effington, SD $32,220 Ortley, SD $32,050 Peever, SD $32,090

Raymond, SD $32,110 Revillo, SD $32,100 Rosholt, SD $32,210 Roslyn, SD $32,040 Sisseton, SD $32,110 South Shore, SD $32,050 Stockholm, SD $32,050 Strandburg, SD $32,050

Summit, SD $32,050 Toronto, SD $32,100 Twin Brooks, SD $32,040 Veblen, SD $32,170

CNA Salary by Company Size: Startups vs. Enterprise

CNA salary potential scales significantly with company size. Data shows that Enterprise companies (5,000+ employees) pay the highest average salary at around $33,683. While startup companies pay approximate $28,639.

CNA Salary by Company Size

Company Size	Employees	Average Salary
Startup	1~50	$28,639
Growth Stage	51~500	$30,250
Established	501~5000	$32,569
Enterprise	5000+	$33,683

CNA Salary by Industry: Top Paying Sectors

For CNA roles, the industry you choose can impact your earning potential by as much as 80% (the gap between the highest and lowest paying industries). Data shows that the highest-paying industry, Healthcare, offers compensation 40% above the average. Conversely, CNA positions in Business Services typically offer lower base pay, as this sector often view CNA as a support function rather than a direct revenue driver.

The top paying industry for a CNA

Industry Sector	Average Annual Salary	Average Hourly Rate	Pay vs.Avg
Healthcare	$44,170	$21.0	40%

CNA Salary: Hourly Rate, Weekly Pay, and Monthly Pay

Understanding how a CNA's annual salary breaks down can help with budgeting. Below, you can see the average hourly rate, weekly pay, and monthly pay for this role. Use the buttons to switch between different pay periods.

Last Updated on July 01, 2026

$28,310

Average $31,550/year

$33,140

$2,359

Average $2,629/month

$2,762

$544

Average $607/week

$637

$14

Average $15/hour

$16

	Annual Salary	Monthly Pay	Weekly Pay	Hourly Wage
75th Percentile	$33,140	$2,762	$637	$16
Average	$31,550	$2,629	$607	$15
25th Percentile	$28,310	$2,359	$544	$14

CNA Salary Growth & Career Path

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For a CNA, the most direct path to higher earnings is advancing to the Nursing Assistant role. This promotion typically comes with a significant pay increase, bringing the average annual salary to $31,800 - a projected growth of 1% over your current level.

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