Tulsa, OK Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 89.2) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Tulsa, OK moved from $45,460 in May 2024 to $46,670 in May 2025 (+2.7%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Tulsa, OK sits -0.4 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Based on wage level, year-over-year wage growth, and regional-price-parity-adjusted purchasing power from BLS and BEA sources, not job availability, industry mix, or day-to-day livability.
Waiters and Waitresses shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Tulsa, OK
Waiters and Waitresses publishes $18,350 here versus $35,230 nationally (-47.9%; 7,460metro-area jobs). Next is Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education at $48,410 locally versus $72,040 nationally (-32.8%).
- Waiters and Waitresses$18,350 in Tulsa, OK sits 47.9% below the national Waiters and Waitresses median of $35,230 (7,460 published local jobs).
- Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education$48,410 in Tulsa, OK sits 32.8% below the national Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education median of $72,040 (3,820 published local jobs).
- Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education$48,220 in Tulsa, OK sits 24.6% below the national Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education median of $63,970 (4,030 published local jobs).
- Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel$54,990 in Tulsa, OK sits 21.4% below the national Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel median of $69,990 (2,870 published local jobs).
Waiters and Waitresses and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Tulsa, OK; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 46140 · Tulsa, OK $58K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-LOW · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-MID #245/528
- RPP-LOW 89.2
- OCC-MOST 520 occs
- TOP-LEAD General Intern… · $378K
- EMP-MIX Financial Ma…
- TREND-INLINE -0.4 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Fort Wayne, IN
- BOOK-FULL 508 rows · May 2025
Read with Fort Wayne, IN (+$23 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 Tulsa, OK
Where Tulsa, OK already employs the upper wage tier
Financial Managers and Nurse Practitioners lead published employment inside Tulsa, OK's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Financial Managers 1,950 jobs · $141,980
- 2. Nurse Practitioners 1,090 jobs · $139,460
- 3. Computer and Information Systems Managers 1,060 jobs · $150,680
- 4. Sales Managers 1,050 jobs · $140,040
- 5. Physicians, All Other 850 jobs · $259,220
- 6. Pharmacists 820 jobs · $140,820
- 7. Chief Executives 790 jobs · $162,260
- 8. Architectural and Engineering Managers 770 jobs · $160,810
- 9. Industrial Production Managers 730 jobs · $123,930
- 10. Family Medicine Physicians 540 jobs · $350,190
- 11. Marketing Managers 480 jobs · $131,120
- 12. Human Resources Managers 460 jobs · $124,760
- 13. Dentists, General 390 jobs · $165,280
- 14. Petroleum Engineers 370 jobs · $130,750
- 15. Physician Assistants 350 jobs · $134,380
- 16. Managers, All Other 280 jobs · $139,940
- 17. Nurse Anesthetists 230 jobs · $212,150
- 18. General Internal Medicine Physicians 190 jobs · $377,580
Occupations Tracked
520
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$58,474
employment-weighted, 508 complete rows
Top Salary
$377,580
General Internal Medicine Physicians
Cost of Living
89.2
11% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Tulsa, 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 | $141,980 |
| 2 | Nurse Practitioners | $139,460 |
| 3 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $150,680 |
| 4 | Sales Managers | $140,040 |
| 5 | Physicians, All Other | $259,220 |
| 6 | Pharmacists | $140,820 |
| 7 | Chief Executives | $162,260 |
| 8 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $160,810 |
| 9 | Industrial Production Managers | $123,930 |
| 10 | Family Medicine Physicians | $350,190 |
| 11 | Marketing Managers | $131,120 |
| 12 | Human Resources Managers | $124,760 |
| 13 | Dentists, General | $165,280 |
| 14 | Petroleum Engineers | $130,750 |
| 15 | Physician Assistants | $134,380 |
| 16 | Managers, All Other | $139,940 |
| 17 | Nurse Anesthetists | $212,150 |
| 18 | General Internal Medicine Physicians | $377,580 |
| 19 | Commercial Pilots | $137,490 |
| 20 | Purchasing Managers | $124,500 |
| 21 | Pediatricians, General | $208,040 |
| 22 | Training and Development Managers | $119,950 |
| 23 | Chemical Engineers | $127,360 |
| 24 | Fundraising Managers | $124,990 |
| 25 | Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay | $122,260 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Tulsa, OK
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Waiters and Waitresses | $18,350 |
| Locker Room, Coatroom, and Dressing Room Attendants | $21,590 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $22,040 |
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $23,210 |
| Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers | $23,750 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $24,960 |
| Telemarketers | $26,210 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $26,460 |
| Sales and Related Workers, All Other | $26,470 |
| Medical Transcriptionists | $26,850 |
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 ($58,474 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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How to use Tulsa, OK wage figures in a real decision
- General Internal Medicine Physicians leads published medians in Tulsa, OK at $377,580/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. General Internal Medicine Physicians
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $58,474 adjusts to about $65,544 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 89.2. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for OK before treating one geography as the other. State wage page
BLS OEWS estimates reflect the May 2025 reference period; small occupation-area cells can be suppressed, and figures are not employer offers.
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.