Best jobs in Oklahoma City, OK
The best-scoring occupations in the Oklahoma City, OK metro area, ranked on local pay plus national growth and opportunity.
Wages here are local to Oklahoma City, OK (OEWS May 2025). Projected growth and openings are national BLS projections — not a local forecast.
How this ranking is scored
score = .40·pay + .30·growth + .20·employment + .10·openings
Each factor is scaled to the strongest occupation on this list, then weighted and summed. Weights differ by list type. Full methodology.
Wages — OEWS May 2025 (metro)
Growth & openings — EP 2024–34 (national)
How Oklahoma City, OK pay compares to the nation
Median vs U.S. median · scale ±10%
$481,870 vs $244,180 · +97.3%
$133,390 vs $132,300 · +0.8%
$24,960 vs $31,200 · -20.0%
−10%U.S. MEDIAN+10%
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Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
P25–P75
Growth
Employed
Open/yr
Score
Showing top 25 of 713 scored occupations — show all 713show top 25
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Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
Growth
Score
139
$41,850
-1.6%
22
152
$63,920
+0.3%
21
153
$55,190
+3.1%
21
160
$61,270
+3.7%
20
278
$71,120
+1.9%
15
326
$43,120
+6.3%
14
396
Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
$37,940
+4.6%
12
473
$49,700
+2.3%
11
563
$60,480
-4.3%
9
575
$51,360
-3.8%
8
616
$35,990
+2.0%
7
619
$51,840
-13.7%
7
622
$40,930
-12.1%
7
625
$41,120
+1.2%
7
675
$40,080
-13.6%
6
686
$36,040
-12.0%
5
691
$37,340
-19.6%
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No placeholder listings · nothing invented Growth and openings are national (BLS EP 2024–34) — state-level projections are not in this data pull, so the same national figure is used for every place and we say so rather than guess. † local wage not published for this cell — the score uses the state value and the pay column shows a dash.