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Mixologist Salary in South Dakota

How much does a Mixologist make in South Dakota?

As of July 01, 2026, the average salary for a Mixologist in South Dakota is $25,800 per year, which breaks down to an hourly rate of $12.

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

Top Earners (90th percentile): $29,430
Majority Range (25th-75th percentile): $22,600 to $27,700
Entry-Level (10th percentile): $19,687

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Mixologist Salaries by Percentile

	Annual Salary	Monthly Pay	Weekly Pay	Hourly Wage
75th Percentile	$27,700	$2,308	$533	$13
Average	$25,800	$2,150	$496	$12
25th Percentile	$22,600	$1,883	$435	$11

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Key Factors That Influence Mixologist Salaries

A Mixologist'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 Mixologist Salaries?

Experience is a primary driver of a Mixologist'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:

Barback - Casino (0-1 years): $23,296
Mixologist (1-3 years): $25,797
Head Sommelier (3-5 years): $53,136

Job Role	Years of Experience	Average Salary
Barback - Casino	0-1 years	$23,296
Mixologist	1-3 years	$25,797
Head Sommelier	3-5 years	$53,136

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How Do Mixologist 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 Mixologists. For example, consider the average annual salaries in these key locations:

District of Columbia: $31,500.
California: $31,400.
Massachusetts: $30,900.

District of Columbia $31,500 California $31,400 Massachusetts $30,900 Washington $30,800 New Jersey $30,800 Alaska $30,800 Connecticut $30,400 New York $30,200

Hawaii $29,700 Rhode Island $29,500 Maryland $29,300 Minnesota $29,100 Illinois $29,000 Colorado $29,000 Oregon $28,900 Delaware $28,800

New Hampshire $28,700 Virginia $28,600 Pennsylvania $28,300 Nevada $28,100 North Dakota $28,100 Michigan $28,000 Wisconsin $28,000 Vermont $27,900

Ohio $27,700 Arizona $27,700 Maine $27,700 Texas $27,700 Georgia $27,400 Indiana $27,300 Wyoming $27,300 Utah $27,200

Iowa $27,200 Kansas $27,100 Louisiana $27,000 North Carolina $27,000 Missouri $27,000 Florida $26,900 Kentucky $26,800 Montana $26,800

Nebraska $26,800 South Carolina $26,600 Tennessee $26,600 Idaho $26,500 New Mexico $26,300 Oklahoma $26,300 Alabama $26,100 South Dakota $25,800

Arkansas $25,700 West Virginia $25,600 Mississippi $25,400

Top Paying Cities for Mixologists

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: $26,100
Aurora: $26,300
Baltic: $26,000

Alcester, SD $26,100 Aurora, SD $26,300 Baltic, SD $26,000 Beresford, SD $26,000 Brandon, SD $25,900 Brookings, SD $26,300 Burbank, SD $26,000 Canistota, SD $26,100

Canton, SD $26,000 Centerville, SD $26,100 Chancellor, SD $26,000 Chester, SD $26,000 Colman, SD $26,100 Colton, SD $26,000 Crooks, SD $26,000 Davis, SD $26,000

Dell Rapids, SD $26,000 Egan, SD $26,100 Elk Point, SD $25,900 Elkton, SD $26,300 Fairview, SD $26,000 Flandreau, SD $26,200 Freeman, SD $26,100 Garretson, SD $26,000

Gayville, SD $26,200 Harrisburg, SD $25,900 Hartford, SD $26,000 Hudson, SD $26,000 Humboldt, SD $26,000 Hurley, SD $26,100 Irene, SD $26,100 Jefferson, SD $25,800

Lennox, SD $26,000 Lesterville, SD $26,200 Lyons, SD $26,000 Madison, SD $26,200 Marion, SD $26,100 Menno, SD $26,200 Mission Hill, SD $26,200 Monroe, SD $26,000

Belle Fourche, SD $26,100 Black Hawk, SD $25,300 Box Elder, SD $25,400 Buffalo, SD $26,100 Buffalo Gap, SD $25,900 Camp Crook, SD $26,100 Caputa, SD $25,500 Custer, SD $25,800

Deadwood, SD $25,700 Edgemont, SD $26,100 Enning, SD $25,900 Fairburn, SD $25,600 Fort Meade, SD $25,600 Hermosa, SD $25,500 Hill City, SD $25,700 Hot Springs, SD $26,100

Howes, SD $25,900 Interior, SD $26,000 Keystone, SD $25,500 Kyle, SD $26,000 Lead, SD $25,900 Ludlow, SD $26,200 Manderson, SD $26,100 Mud Butte, SD $26,000

Nemo, SD $25,500 Newell, SD $26,000 New Underwood, SD $25,500 Nisland, SD $26,100 Oelrichs, SD $26,000 Oglala, SD $26,100 Oral, SD $26,000 Owanka, SD $25,600

Piedmont, SD $25,400 Pine Ridge, SD $26,100 Porcupine, SD $26,000 Pringle, SD $25,900 Quinn, SD $25,900 Redig, SD $25,900 Saint Onge, SD $26,000 Scenic, SD $25,800

Smithwick, SD $26,000 Spearfish, SD $26,100 Sturgis, SD $25,500 Union Center, SD $25,900 Vale, SD $25,800 Wall, SD $25,900 Wasta, SD $25,800 White Owl, SD $25,900

Whitewood, SD $25,900 Wounded Knee, SD $26,100 Leola, SD $26,200 Long Lake, SD $26,300 Mansfield, SD $26,200 Mellette, SD $26,200 Northville, SD $26,200 Onaka, SD $26,100

Orient, SD $26,100 Pierpont, SD $26,200 Redfield, SD $26,300 Rockham, SD $26,200 Roscoe, SD $26,100 Selby, SD $26,100 Seneca, SD $26,100 Stratford, SD $26,200

Tolstoy, SD $26,100 Tulare, SD $26,200 Turton, SD $26,200 Warner, SD $26,300 Westport, SD $26,200 Pierre, SD $24,000 Agar, SD $24,600 Belvidere, SD $25,900

Blunt, SD $24,000 Burke, SD $26,100 Colome, SD $26,100 Dallas, SD $26,100 Draper, SD $25,300 Fort Pierre, SD $24,000 Gregory, SD $26,100 Hamill, SD $26,100

Harrold, SD $24,100 Hayes, SD $25,700 Herrick, SD $26,100 Holabird, SD $24,600 Ideal, SD $26,100 Kadoka, SD $26,000 Kennebec, SD $25,700 Long Valley, SD $26,000

Lower Brule, SD $25,600 Martin, SD $26,000 Midland, SD $25,900 Milesville, SD $25,900 Mission, SD $26,100 Murdo, SD $25,700 Norris, SD $26,000 Okaton, SD $25,900

Okreek, SD $26,100 Onida, SD $24,200 Parmelee, SD $26,100 Philip, SD $25,900 Presho, SD $25,500 Reliance, SD $26,100 Rosebud, SD $26,100 Saint Charles, SD $26,200

Saint Francis, SD $26,100 Tuthill, SD $26,000 Vivian, SD $25,400 Wanblee, SD $26,000 White River, SD $26,000 Winner, SD $26,100 Witten, SD $26,000 Wood, SD $26,000

Mobridge, SD $26,100 Bison, SD $26,000 Bullhead, SD $26,200 Cherry Creek, SD $26,000 Dupree, SD $26,000 Eagle Butte, SD $26,000 Faith, SD $26,000 Glencross, SD $26,000

Glenham, SD $26,100 Herreid, SD $26,200 Isabel, SD $26,000 Keldron, SD $26,100 Lantry, SD $26,000 Lemmon, SD $26,200 Little Eagle, SD $26,200 Lodgepole, SD $26,100

Mc Intosh, SD $26,100 Mc Laughlin, SD $26,100 Meadow, SD $26,000 Morristown, SD $26,200 Mound City, SD $26,200 Pollock, SD $26,300 Prairie City, SD $26,100 Ralph, SD $26,100

Reva, SD $26,100 Ridgeview, SD $26,000 Timber Lake, SD $26,000 Trail City, SD $26,000 Wakpala, SD $26,100 Walker, SD $26,200 Watauga, SD $26,100 Whitehorse, SD $26,000

Rapid City, SD $25,300 Ellsworth Afb, SD $25,300 Allen, SD $26,000 Batesland, SD $26,000 Montrose, SD $26,100 North Sioux City, SD $25,800 Nunda, SD $26,200 Oldham, SD $26,200

Olivet, SD $26,200 Parker, SD $26,000 Ramona, SD $26,200 Renner, SD $25,900 Rowena, SD $25,900 Rutland, SD $26,100 Salem, SD $26,200 Scotland, SD $26,200

Sinai, SD $26,300 Springfield, SD $26,200 Tabor, SD $26,200 Tea, SD $26,000 Trent, SD $26,100 Tyndall, SD $26,200 Utica, SD $26,200 Valley Springs, SD $25,900

Vermillion, SD $26,200 Viborg, SD $26,100 Volga, SD $26,300 Volin, SD $26,100 Wakonda, SD $26,100 Wentworth, SD $26,100 Winfred, SD $26,200 Worthing, SD $26,000

Yankton, SD $26,300 Sioux Falls, SD $25,900 Vienna, SD $26,300 Wallace, SD $26,300 Waubay, SD $26,300 Webster, SD $26,300 White, SD $26,300 Willow Lake, SD $26,300

Wilmot, SD $26,300 Mitchell, SD $26,300 Alexandria, SD $26,200 Alpena, SD $26,200 Armour, SD $26,200 Artesian, SD $26,200 Avon, SD $26,200 Bonesteel, SD $26,200

Bridgewater, SD $26,100 Canova, SD $26,200 Carpenter, SD $26,300 Carthage, SD $26,300 Cavour, SD $26,300 Chamberlain, SD $26,200 Corsica, SD $26,200 Dante, SD $26,200

Delmont, SD $26,200 Dimock, SD $26,200 Emery, SD $26,200 Ethan, SD $26,200 Fairfax, SD $26,200 Fedora, SD $26,200 Fort Thompson, SD $25,900 Fulton, SD $26,200

Gann Valley, SD $26,100 Geddes, SD $26,200 Harrison, SD $26,200 Highmore, SD $25,700 Stephan, SD $25,800 Hitchcock, SD $26,300 Howard, SD $26,200 Huron, SD $26,400

Iroquois, SD $26,300 Kaylor, SD $26,200 Kimball, SD $26,200 Lake Andes, SD $26,200 Lane, SD $26,300 Letcher, SD $26,200 Marty, SD $26,300 Miller, SD $26,200

Mount Vernon, SD $26,200 New Holland, SD $26,300 Oacoma, SD $26,100 Parkston, SD $26,200 Pickstown, SD $26,200 Plankinton, SD $26,200 Platte, SD $26,200 Pukwana, SD $26,100

Ree Heights, SD $26,000 Saint Lawrence, SD $26,200 Spencer, SD $26,200 Stickney, SD $26,200 Tripp, SD $26,200 Virgil, SD $26,200 Wagner, SD $26,200 Wessington, SD $26,200

Wessington Springs, SD $26,200 White Lake, SD $26,200 Wolsey, SD $26,300 Woonsocket, SD $26,200 Yale, SD $26,300 Aberdeen, SD $26,300 Akaska, SD $26,100 Amherst, SD $26,300

Andover, SD $26,200 Ashton, SD $26,200 Barnard, SD $26,300 Bath, SD $26,300 Bowdle, SD $26,100 Brentford, SD $26,300 Britton, SD $26,300 Claremont, SD $26,200

Columbia, SD $26,200 Conde, SD $26,200 Cresbard, SD $26,200 Doland, SD $26,300 Eureka, SD $26,200 Faulkton, SD $26,200 Ferney, SD $26,300 Frankfort, SD $26,300

Frederick, SD $26,300 Gettysburg, SD $25,900 Groton, SD $26,300 Hecla, SD $26,300 Hosmer, SD $26,200 Houghton, SD $26,200 Hoven, SD $26,100 Ipswich, SD $26,200

Java, SD $26,100 Langford, SD $26,200 Lebanon, SD $26,000 Watertown, SD $26,400 Arlington, SD $26,300 Astoria, SD $26,300 Badger, SD $26,300 Big Stone City, SD $26,400

Bradley, SD $26,300 Brandt, SD $26,300 Bristol, SD $26,300 Bruce, SD $26,300 Bryant, SD $26,300 Castlewood, SD $26,300 Claire City, SD $26,300 Clark, SD $26,300

Clear Lake, SD $26,300 Corona, SD $26,300 De Smet, SD $26,300 Eden, SD $26,300 Erwin, SD $26,300 Estelline, SD $26,300 Florence, SD $26,300 Garden City, SD $26,300

Gary, SD $26,300 Goodwin, SD $26,300 Grenville, SD $26,300 Hayti, SD $26,300 Hazel, SD $26,300 Henry, SD $26,300 Kranzburg, SD $26,400 Labolt, SD $26,300

Lake City, SD $26,300 Lake Norden, SD $26,300 Lake Preston, SD $26,300 Marvin, SD $26,300 Milbank, SD $26,400 New Effington, SD $26,400 Ortley, SD $26,300 Peever, SD $26,300

Raymond, SD $26,300 Revillo, SD $26,300 Rosholt, SD $26,400 Roslyn, SD $26,200 Sisseton, SD $26,300 South Shore, SD $26,300 Stockholm, SD $26,300 Strandburg, SD $26,300

Summit, SD $26,300 Toronto, SD $26,300 Twin Brooks, SD $26,200 Veblen, SD $26,400

Mixologist Salary by Company Size: Startups vs. Enterprise

Mixologist salary potential scales significantly with company size. Data shows that Enterprise companies (5,000+ employees) pay the highest average salary at around $27,373. While startup companies pay approximate $23,229.

Mixologist Salary by Company Size

Company Size	Employees	Average Salary
Startup	1~50	$23,229
Growth Stage	51~500	$24,549
Established	501~5000	$26,458
Enterprise	5000+	$27,373

Mixologist Salary by Industry: Top Paying Sectors

For Mixologist roles, the industry you choose can impact your earning potential by as much as 40% (the gap between the highest and lowest paying industries). Data shows that the highest-paying industry, Edu., Gov't. & Nonprofit, offers compensation 20% above the average. Conversely, Mixologist positions in Hospitality & Leisure typically offer lower base pay, as this sector often view Mixologist as a support function rather than a direct revenue driver.

The top paying industry for a Mixologist

Industry Sector	Average Annual Salary	Average Hourly Rate	Pay vs.Avg
Edu., Gov't. & Nonprofit	$30,960	$15.0	20%

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

Understanding how a Mixologist'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

$22,600

Average $25,800/year

$27,700

$1,883

Average $2,150/month

$2,308

$435

Average $496/week

$533

$11

Average $12/hour

$13

	Annual Salary	Monthly Pay	Weekly Pay	Hourly Wage
75th Percentile	$27,700	$2,308	$533	$13
Average	$25,800	$2,150	$496	$12
25th Percentile	$22,600	$1,883	$435	$11

Mixologist Salary Growth & Career Path

Mixologist

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For a Mixologist, the most direct path to higher earnings is advancing to the Head Sommelier role. This promotion typically comes with a significant pay increase, bringing the average annual salary to $53,200 - a projected growth of 106% over your current level.

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