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Custer - Work & Economy

Business Activity & Taxable Sales

Taxable sales in Custer exceeded $4.859 million in January, 2012, according to the South Dakota Department of Revenue. Leading business sectors included: retail trade ($2.1 million), transportation & public utilities ($1.78 million) and services ($0.8 million).

Work - Employment

The leading employers in the City of Custer are the Black Hills National Forest, Custer School District, South Dakota Star Academy, and Custer County.  South Dakota is a right to work state. 

The chart below shows the unemployment rate over the past decade for Custer county, along with a line showing the average during this time, as recorded by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

 

 
The unemployment rate is defined as the number unemployed as a percent of the labor force. Persons 16 years and older who had no employment during the reference week, were available for work (except for temporary illness) and had made specific efforts to find employment, are classified as unemployed. For more information, see http://bls.gov/lau/.

 

Another way to explore the types of jobs in a particular area in the Black Hills region is to compare the number of jobs to the number of people employed. The higher the ratio of jobs to employed persons, the more common part-time employment is in this county. The chart below shows the movement in both these numbers, as well as a visual comparison of the difference between “employment” and “all employees.” These data come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

 
“Employment” is an establishment-level indicator of a paid position covered by state and federal unemployment insurance programs (and collected by the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages). “All Employees” is a household-level indicator of the number of actively employed persons during a period of time, estimated from the Bureau of Labor Statistics from American Community Survey Data. For more information, see http://www.bls.gov/lau/laumthd.htm and http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cewqtr.tn.htm.