Jobs in the Oklahoma City, OK area: pay, hiring and remote work
The Oklahoma City, OK metro area has 530 open job postings from 119 employers in our data. 14% list a pay range, the median posted pay is $110,000 a year, 6.6% are remote and 27.9% have been open more than 60 days (data as of October 2026).
What stands out
A $110,000 posted salary in the Oklahoma City area buys about what $121,500 buys in the average US metro area, because prices here run 10% below the national average.
Housing costs run 26% below the US average here (BEA regional price parities).
14% of open job postings list a pay range, 77th of 99 metro areas.
18.7% of postings are entry-level, 12th of 99 metro areas.
6.6% of postings are remote, 25th highest of 99 metro areas.
Oklahoma City compared with similar-sized metro areas: the median wage divided by the local price level (US average prices = 100). Download this chart (SVG)
530open postings from 119 employers
14%list a pay range
$110,000median posted pay (middle half: $80,000 to $162,000)
6.6%remote
3.9%unemployment rate, 2026-08 (BLS)
$47,000official median wage for all jobs, May 2025 (BLS)
18.7%entry-level postings
The metro area's unemployment rate was 3.9% in 2026-08 (3.4% a year earlier) (BLS, not seasonally adjusted). Across Oklahoma, employers had 101,000 job openings in 2025-12, an openings rate of 5.3% (BLS JOLTS). Indeed's own measure of job postings in the metro area is 9.4% above its February 2020 level and 2.3% higher than a year ago (Indeed Hiring Lab, 2026-10-02).
City by city inside the metro area
Place
Postings
Employers
Pay listed
Median posted pay
Oklahoma City, OK
449
109
16.2%
$110,000
Norman, OK
21
10
n/a
–
Edmond, OK
17
4
n/a
–
Places with at least 15 postings from 3 employers. Shading shows where median posted pay is higher. Pay figures need 8 postings with pay.
318 federal job announcements open to the public list Oklahoma City, OK, with a median posted salary range midpoint of $93,500. Agencies hiring most: Department of the Air Force Headquarters (120), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (30), Federal Aviation Administration (25), Indian Health Service (23), Bureau of Prisons/Federal Prison System (18). Source: USAJOBS, 2026-10-10.
What your paycheck buys here
Prices in the Oklahoma City, OK area run 10% below the national average, and housing runs 26% below it. The official median wage for all jobs is $47,000, which is worth $52,000 in average-US dollars. The median posted pay of $110,000 is worth $121,500.
Local prices compared with the national average, where 100 is the US average. Download this chart (SVG)Median wages for the ten occupations with the most workers here (worker count in parentheses). Download this chart (SVG)Which industries have the most open postings in our data. Download this chart (SVG)
A posting that lists several places counts once in the metro. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's 2023 definitions. This covers employers whose career pages we read, not every job in the area. Methodology · All metro areas (CSV)
