Yankton, SD jobs, layoffs and employers

12 open professional jobs in Yankton. Yankton is in Yankton County.

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Employers hiring most in Yankton

  1. Bureau of Prisons/Federal Prison System1 open role
  2. Five Below1 open role
  3. Jackson Hewitt1 open role
  4. Manitou Group1 open role
  5. National Park Service1 open role
  6. State of South Dakota1 open role
  7. Thinking Ahead1 open role
  8. ThinkingAhead Executive Search1 open role
  9. TIUM Technology1 open role
  10. Vishay1 open role

Yankton layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Yankton in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.

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Colleges in Yankton

Colleges in Yankton
CollegeTypeStudents
Mount Marty UniversityPrivate nonprofit 4-year1,000–4,999

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Yankton. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

  • Yankton American Job Center

    Yankton · Comprehensive · 605-773-3372

    Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm, Thursday 9 am to 5 pm

Yankton County economy

  • 1.9%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    2.0% the month before

  • 12,055

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 23,379

    people in Yankton County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $73,855

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 38%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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Sources: WARN 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.