Live in Wyoming, Work in South Dakota: Which State Taxes Your Paycheck?
Answer
No state income tax applies at all. South Dakota does not tax wages and neither does Wyoming, which makes this one of the small number of state pairs where the whole question disappears: no withholding, no nonresident return, no resident return, no credit to claim.
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Most of the difficulty in multi-state wage tax comes from two states claiming the same income. Here neither one claims it. Wyoming and South Dakota both sit outside the state income tax system, so there is no competition to resolve.
What you file
There is nothing to file in either Wyoming or South Dakota on these wages. Your federal return is unaffected — the federal government taxes the income whatever the states do.
The two states, side by side
| Wyoming | South Dakota | |
|---|---|---|
| Taxes wages | No | No |
| Reciprocity partners | None | None |
| Convenience rule | No | No |
| Nonresident return | Not applicable | Not applicable |
| Credit for other-state tax | No income tax | No income tax |
| Nonresident safe harbour | Not applicable | Not applicable |
| Local income tax | No | No |
| Revenue department | Wyoming Department of Revenue | South Dakota Department of Revenue |
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The other direction
Reversing the commute does not always reverse the answer. Living in South Dakota and working in Wyoming gives:No state income tax either side.
Same two states, different situation
The withholding answer turns on how you are paid and where the work happens, not only on which two states are involved.
- Remote worker: Wyoming → South DakotaNo state income tax either side
- 1099 contractor: Wyoming → South DakotaNo state income tax either side
- Moved mid-year: Wyoming → South DakotaNo state return either side
Other Wyoming pairs
Questions people actually ask
I live in Wyoming and work in South Dakota. Which state takes the tax out of my paycheck?
No state income tax applies at all. South Dakota does not tax wages and neither does Wyoming, which makes this one of the small number of state pairs where the whole question disappears: no withholding, no nonresident return, no resident return, no credit to claim.
Which state should my employer be withholding for?
Neither. There is no state income tax to withhold on either side of this pairing, so a state line on your pay stub for Wyoming or South Dakota is an error worth querying.
How current is this?
The Wyoming and South Dakota rules on this page were last checked against Wyoming Department of Revenue and South Dakota Department of Revenue on 2026-08-07. We re-check the full grid every December after state legislative sessions close, and re-check the convenience-of-the-employer states quarterly because that is where the rules move fastest.
Sources
Every fact above comes from the revenue department that publishes the rule. We do not cite secondary summaries, and we do not restate a figure we could not find at source.
- Wyoming Department of Revenue — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07
- South Dakota Department of Revenue — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07