Program Payoff

Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services programs in South Dakota

3 schools in South Dakota teach this, at certificate or associate level. 1 of them reports what graduates earn two years out; the highest is $35,880 at Southeast Technical College.

What this work pays in South Dakota

First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers in South Dakota earn a median of $56,680 a year across 3,660 jobs. That is what the occupation pays everyone in it — not what graduates of any one program below earned.

Also leads toMedianJobs in South Dakota
Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers$35,3702,980
Forest and Conservation Workers$38,210490
Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation$46,320460
First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers$60,680340
Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary$98,220110

Occupation wages: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025.

Schools

SchoolCredentialMedian debtGraduate earnings, 2 yrsGraduates
Southeast Technical College Sioux Falls Associate's degree $35,880 (30 grads) 18
Mount Marty University Yankton Undergraduate certificate not published 3
Mount Marty University Yankton Associate's degree not published 2

A dash under earnings or debt means the U.S. Department of Education has not published a figure for that program — it withholds any median computed from too few graduates, which covers about four of every five programs. It never means zero, and it says nothing about whether the program is any good. Where a figure is shown, the number of graduates behind it is shown with it.

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Program and outcome figures: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, released 2026-06-10.