Brookings, South Dakota

==Employment==
According to the City's 2021 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cityofbrookings-sd.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/8471|title=City of Brookings 2021 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report|page=181|access-date=July 14, 2023|date=July 14, 2023}}</ref> its largest employers are:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! #
! Employer
! # of Employees
|-
|1
|[[South Dakota State University]]
|3,973
|-
|2
|[[Daktronics]]
|1,329
|-
|3
|[[3M]]
|1,156
|-
|4
|[[Walmart]]
|538
|-
|5
|Brookings Health System
|496
|-
|6
|Brookings School District
|492
|-
|7
|[[Hy-Vee]] Food Store
|450
|-
|8
|[[Larson Manufacturing]]
|448
|-
|9
|Aramark
|384
|-
|10
|Swiftel Center
|355
|}

Brookings's unemployment rate is 2.7%, well below the national average of 4.7%.

Bel Brands USA, Inc., a subsidiary of Paris-based multinational Fromageries BEL or [[Bel Group]], began commercial construction of a 170,000-square-foot [[Babybel]] cheese production plant in 2014 in the city's Foster Addition north of the Swiftel Center. The project added 250 new jobs in Brookings by the end of 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.belbrandsusa.com/brookings-plant.asp|title = Our Locations|publisher = Bel Brands USA|access-date=July 17, 2016}}</ref> [[Rainbow Play Systems]] is also headquartered in Brookings.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rainbow Play Systems |url=https://www.brookingschamber.org/list/member/rainbow-play-systems-322 |website=Brookings Chamber}}</ref>