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.
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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