Travel LTC/SNF Nurse Pay in South Dakota

The median advertised pay for a travel LTC/SNF (long-term care and skilled nursing) contract in South Dakota is $2,495 per week, with the middle half between $2,495 and $2,495. Measured across 3 active travel LTC/SNF contracts in South Dakota at 3 facilities, as of 2026-10-30.

Advertised weekly totals before tax, usually including tax-free stipends; for almost all postings the top of an advertised range. Not take-home. With only 3 open contracts in South Dakota, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.

That is 20 percent over the $2,074 national median for travel LTC/SNF contracts.

South Dakota is a Nurse Licensure Compact state, so an active multistate license covers you here. A single-state license from elsewhere does not. The compact state list explains which states issue one, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.

Where every open LTC/SNF contract falls

Weekly rateOpen contracts
$2,400 to $2,4500
$2,450 to $2,5003
$2,500 to $2,5500
$2,550 to $2,6000
$2,600 to $2,6500
$2,650 to $2,7000

All 3 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.

South Dakota has the 46th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 11 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 32 percent under, while goods sit 5 percent under and services 8 percent under. That matters more than the headline number, because housing is the part a tax-free stipend is meant to cover and the rest comes out of taxed wages.

LTC/SNF pay by metro in South Dakota

MetroOpen contractsMedian weeklyRent, 1 bed
Belle Fourche1$2,495—
Mitchell1$2,495—
Yankton1$2,495—

Rent is the one-bedroom Fair Market Rent HUD publishes for that metro, which is what a housing stipend is trying to cover. The open-contract count beside each metro is the sample its median rests on, and outside the largest markets that sample is small: a median over one or two contracts is a single posting's rate rather than a market rate, so read the count first.

Open LTC/SNF contracts in South Dakota

Browse the board for current LTC/SNF assignments in South Dakota.

LTC/SNF pay in other states

All 8 states with LTC/SNF openings

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Common questions

How much does a travel LTC/SNF nurse make in South Dakota?
The median advertised pay for a travel LTC/SNF contract in South Dakota is $2,495 a week, with the middle half of contracts between $2,495 and $2,495. Measured across 3 active travel LTC/SNF contracts in South Dakota at 3 facilities, as of 2026-10-30. These are advertised weekly totals before tax, usually including tax-free stipends; for almost all postings the figure is the top of an advertised range. Not take-home.
Where does this LTC/SNF pay figure come from?
From the travel contracts currently posted on CircleRN, not from an industry survey or an estimate. No federal source publishes pay by nursing specialty: the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports registered nurses as a single occupation, so there is no official median for an ICU or a labor and delivery nurse. We publish the median rather than the average because one crisis-rate assignment moves an average enough to misrepresent the market.