Oklahoma City, OK Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 90.4) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Oklahoma City, OK moved from $45,880 in May 2024 to $47,230 in May 2025 (+2.9%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Oklahoma City, OK sits -0.2 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Waiters and Waitresses shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Oklahoma City, OK
Waiters and Waitresses publishes $18,200 here versus $35,230 nationally (-48.3%; 11,560metro-area jobs). Next is Lawyers at $103,490 locally versus $159,670 nationally (-35.2%).
- Waiters and Waitresses$18,200 in Oklahoma City, OK sits 48.3% below the national Waiters and Waitresses median of $35,230 (11,560 published local jobs).
- Lawyers$103,490 in Oklahoma City, OK sits 35.2% below the national Lawyers median of $159,670 (4,310 published local jobs).
- Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education$50,650 in Oklahoma City, OK sits 29.7% below the national Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education median of $72,040 (5,530 published local jobs).
- Childcare Workers$25,090 in Oklahoma City, OK sits 28.3% below the national Childcare Workers median of $34,980 (2,900 published local jobs).
Waiters and Waitresses and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Oklahoma City, OK; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 36420 · Oklahoma City, OK $60K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-LOW · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-MID #199/528
- RPP-LOW 90.4
- OCC-MOST 585 occs
- TOP-LEAD Family Medicin… · $482K
- EMP-MIX Financial Ma…
- TREND-INLINE -0.2 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Western Wyoming…
- BOOK-FULL 569 rows · May 2025
Read with Western Wyoming nonmetropolitan area (+$25 on published-row mean) · Salary vs. cost of living
Instrument codes from this MSA’s OEWS published-row mean, BEA RPP, occupation book, employment lead, All Occupations pay change, and nearest peer — not a moving recommendation.
Published-row mean neighbourhood around Oklahoma City, OK
Where Oklahoma City, OK already employs the upper wage tier
Financial Managers and Computer and Information Systems Managers lead published employment inside Oklahoma City, OK's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Financial Managers 3,050 jobs · $131,540
- 2. Computer and Information Systems Managers 1,930 jobs · $137,940
- 3. Nurse Practitioners 1,670 jobs · $133,390
- 4. Pharmacists 1,550 jobs · $138,120
- 5. Physicians, All Other 1,130 jobs · $307,800
- 6. Physician Assistants 1,020 jobs · $138,920
- 7. Architectural and Engineering Managers 990 jobs · $159,990
- 8. Chief Executives 970 jobs · $179,990
- 9. Family Medicine Physicians 940 jobs · $481,870
- 10. Petroleum Engineers 700 jobs · $176,200
- 11. Marketing Managers 660 jobs · $130,510
- 12. Dentists, General 290 jobs · $196,740
- 13. Commercial Pilots 200 jobs · $156,760
- 14. General Internal Medicine Physicians 180 jobs · $216,570
- 15. Pediatricians, General 140 jobs · $236,780
- 16. Air Traffic Controllers 130 jobs · $146,520
- 17. Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers 90 jobs · $153,940
- 18. Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers 70 jobs · $131,660
Occupations Tracked
585
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$59,960
employment-weighted, 569 complete rows
Top Salary
$481,870
Family Medicine Physicians
Cost of Living
90.4
10% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Oklahoma City, OK, by employment
Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Financial Managers | $131,540 |
| 2 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $137,940 |
| 3 | Nurse Practitioners | $133,390 |
| 4 | Pharmacists | $138,120 |
| 5 | Physicians, All Other | $307,800 |
| 6 | Physician Assistants | $138,920 |
| 7 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $159,990 |
| 8 | Chief Executives | $179,990 |
| 9 | Family Medicine Physicians | $481,870 |
| 10 | Petroleum Engineers | $176,200 |
| 11 | Marketing Managers | $130,510 |
| 12 | Dentists, General | $196,740 |
| 13 | Commercial Pilots | $156,760 |
| 14 | General Internal Medicine Physicians | $216,570 |
| 15 | Pediatricians, General | $236,780 |
| 16 | Air Traffic Controllers | $146,520 |
| 17 | Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers | $153,940 |
| 18 | Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers | $131,660 |
| 19 | Physicians, Pathologists | $315,520 |
| 20 | Cardiologists | $161,160 |
| 21 | Psychiatrists | $285,900 |
| 22 | Psychologists, All Other | $150,400 |
| 23 | Law Teachers, Postsecondary | $142,720 |
| 24 | Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric | $215,760 |
| 25 | Nurse Anesthetists | $156,830 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Oklahoma City, OK
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Waiters and Waitresses | $18,200 |
| Travel Agents | $21,120 |
| Locker Room, Coatroom, and Dressing Room Attendants | $21,440 |
| Umpires, Referees, and Other Sports Officials | $21,760 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $21,910 |
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $23,730 |
| Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals | $24,140 |
| Bartenders | $24,790 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $24,960 |
| Childcare Workers | $25,090 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in OK
Other metropolitan or nonmetropolitan OEWS areas assigned to the same state. Cross-state pay and employment peers live in Nationwide similar metros below.
Nationwide metros with similar published-row mean pay or employment scale
Two OEWS peer sets outside OK. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($59,960 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Similar employment scale
Nearest headcount peers (floor 100,000 summed published jobs), distinct from the mean-wage column.
Peers are nearest-neighbor matches on BLS OEWS employment-weighted published-row mean wage and summed occupation employment. Employment peers exclude metros already listed in the mean-wage column so the two link sets stay distinct. Mean wage here is not a worker-level median.
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Source data and WageDex calculations are identified in context on this page. Occupation rows use BLS OEWS May 2025. The metro benchmark is WageDex's employment-weighted mean of published occupation means; where BEA RPP is available, the price-level figure divides that benchmark by the published area parity. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.