State labor market
Oklahoma labor market
Current statewide hiring activity plus occupation-level employment and pay for Oklahoma. OEWS answers what occupations pay and how many workers BLS estimates are employed; the postings measures show more current statewide hiring activity.
Current statewide signal
Oklahoma hiring snapshot
Indeed job-postings measures across all occupations in Oklahoma.
Indeed job postings only. Postings are not a count of all vacancies or hires, Indeed does not cover the whole labor market, and this is statewide activity across all occupations, not an occupation health score. Each series is seasonally adjusted and indexed to its own February 1, 2020 level, so a higher index does not mean more jobs than another state. Source: Indeed Hiring Lab · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved Sep 26, 2026. JobMarketHealth calculates the displayed changes and differences.
Occupations & pay
Where Oklahoma workers are employed
The eight largest occupations in our tracked OEWS catalog, by BLS estimated employment. These are estimated jobs held, not current openings or a count of unique people.
General and operations managers
43,890estimated employmentLaborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand
38,210estimated employmentCustomer service representatives
34,460estimated employmentPay examples
Selected occupation pay examples
The same familiar occupations on every state page. Each U.S. figure uses the same measure (annual or hourly) as the Oklahoma figure beside it.
- Registered nurses$82,920/yr Oklahoma median annualU.S. $97,550/yr
- Software developers$118,100/yr Oklahoma median annualU.S. $135,980/yr
- Electricians$61,010/yr Oklahoma median annualU.S. $63,190/yr
- Accountants and auditors$79,370/yr Oklahoma median annualU.S. $83,680/yr
- Elementary school teachers, except special education$48,200/yr Oklahoma median annualU.S. $63,970/yr
- Marketing managers$126,920/yr Oklahoma median annualU.S. $166,790/yr
Pay compared with the U.S.
How Oklahoma occupation pay differs
Up to 5 occupations per side with at least 1,000 estimated Oklahoma workers and published state and U.S. median annual wages, ordered by the largest percentage gap. Nominal wages, not adjusted for cost of living; not a demand or overall market ranking, and not a test of statistical significance.
Higher median than U.S.
- Family medicine physicians$361,350/yr state median · 2,170 workers+48.0%vs. U.S. $244,180/yr
- Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders$63,640/yr state median · 1,390 workers+26.6%vs. U.S. $50,270/yr
- Teaching assistants, postsecondary$49,920/yr state median · 1,680 workers+16.3%vs. U.S. $42,910/yr
- Slaughterers and meat packers$45,970/yr state median · 1,560 workers+14.6%vs. U.S. $40,130/yr
- Business operations specialists, all other$93,640/yr state median · 5,700 workers+12.8%vs. U.S. $83,050/yr
Lower median than U.S.
- Waiters and waitresses$17,910/yr state median · 27,000 workers-49.2%vs. U.S. $35,230/yr
- Substitute teachers, short-term$23,770/yr state median · 4,990 workers-43.0%vs. U.S. $41,670/yr
- Lawyers$103,060/yr state median · 6,980 workers-35.5%vs. U.S. $159,670/yr
- Personal financial advisors$68,670/yr state median · 1,140 workers-34.6%vs. U.S. $105,070/yr
- Telecommunications line installers and repairers$48,900/yr state median · 1,410 workers-34.2%vs. U.S. $74,330/yr
Explore occupations
Occupation pay in Oklahoma
Search every tracked OEWS occupation record for Oklahoma. Links marked “Oklahoma report” open a detailed state report; links marked “National report” open the U.S. occupation report because no Oklahoma report is available.
669 occupations · showing 1–25
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), reference period May 2025; our data connection last checked Sep 23, 2026. OEWS covers wage and salary jobs and excludes the self-employed. “Top-coded” means BLS publishes only that the wage is at or above its reporting ceiling; “Not released” means BLS withheld the estimate. Missing values are never estimated. These occupation wages are separate from the QCEW industry trends on detailed occupation pages.