Why Work for the CIty

Why Work For Sturgis?
Sturgis is located in the heart of the beautiful Black Hills National Forest in western South Dakota. The City has a rich history and is internationally known for the legendary Sturgis Motorcycle Rally ®, the largest continuing motorcycle event in the world.

Sturgis prides itself as a community with a great quality of life marked by excellent schools, outstanding health care, affordable housing, strong public safety, ample recreation, and friendly, hard-working people. Sturgis has aggressive growth goals for both the short and long-term, making it an exciting place to work and live.

Benefits
The City highly values its employees and prides itself on the generous benefits package that it is able to offer to its full-time and permanent half-time employees.

Benefits include:

  • Health and dental insurance, with employees and employer both contributing towards coverage premiums
  • Employee life insurance
  • Dependent life insurance
  • Accidental death and dismemberment insurance


We also participate in the South Dakota State Retirement Plan (whereby employee contributions are matched with City contributions). We provide paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave, and employees are eligible for membership to our Sturgis Community Center .