Rapid City, SD jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Director, Nursing Inpatient Black HillsSanford
- Replenishment Team LeadFleet Farm
- Assistant DirectorBright Horizons Family Solutions
- Payment Integrity AnalystMonument Health Spearfish Hospital
- Dialysis Hospital Services Clinical Manager - A $10,000 sign on bonus is availableDialysis Clinic
- CITY ENGINEERCity of Rapid City, Public Works
- Systems AdministratorProcter & Gamble
- System Administrator IIAmentum
- Accounts Payable SpecialistBrink Constructors
- Direct Sales Representative, Cardiac Rhythm Management - Rapid City, SDAbbott Laboratories
Employers hiring most in Rapid City
- Monument Health Network9 open roles
- State of South Dakota5 open roles
- Dialysis Clinic3 open roles
- Quanta Services3 open roles
- Army National Guard Units2 open roles
- Bright Horizons Family Solutions2 open roles
- City of Rapid City, Public Works2 open roles
- MasTec2 open roles
- Waste Connections2 open roles
- Abbott Laboratories1 open role
Rapid City layoffs
No layoff notices naming Rapid City in the last 12 months are on file. The WARN Act covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.
Pennington County outlook: Building
Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.
- Private-sector jobs up 4.7% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 6.6% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 1.7%, down 0.1 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+897 jobs), construction (+630 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Rapid City. Each link goes to the publisher.
- Poll: Voters split on Thune and Trump job performanceSouth Dakota News Watch · Oct 28, 2026
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Laid off in South Dakota? How to file for unemployment in South Dakota (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
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Pennington County economy
1.7%
unemployment, Sep 2026
1.8% the month before
59,596
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
112,081
people in Pennington County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$70,768
median household income
Source: Census ACS
39%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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See your options after a layoffSources: Layoff notices from South Dakota’s published record; job counts from our live job board, taken from employers’ own career sites; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers; Census Bureau and BLS for county figures. South Dakota unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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