Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Oklahoma City, OK MSA · October 2026
Every advertised-pay, job-posting and industry figure in this briefing comes from WageScape's own database of active job postings. The sources below back the external facts cited in the written analysis.
Sources cited in this report
Key Indicators
Oklahoma City MSA real GDP grew 0.9% to $81.7 billion
Oklahoma Economic Indicators Report — Metro GDP ranking and growth rate
This Month's Takeaways
State Question 832 minimum wage increase rejected by voters, June 2026
Wikipedia / Oklahoma Elections — State ballot measure outcome
Healthcare and social assistance projected to add 17,840 jobs by 2034
Oklahoma Economic Indicators — State industry employment forecast
Oklahoma County -0.8%, Cleveland County -0.9%, Tulsa +1.4% job growth
Oklahoma Employment Security Commission — County-level payroll employment data
Local Economic Conditions
Oklahoma City unemployment rate and 52-month streak below 4% ending
Oklahoma Economic Indicators / BLS — Metro unemployment trend data
Looking Ahead
Initial unemployment claims of 1,100 for week ending September 5
Oklahoma Employment Security Commission — Weekly jobless claims data
How the numbers are calculated
- Advertised pay is the median of the pay ranges employers publish in active job postings in this metro. It is not survey or payroll data.
- Percent changes compare the latest six full months with the six months before that, for the same metro and sector.
- Sectors group postings by the employer's industry (NAICS) classification into ten sectors. Where a metro has too few postings in a sector, the state figure is used instead.
- Role pay trends use the same comparison windows. "Stable" means a change of less than 3%; "moderate" 3–10%; "significant" more than 10%.
Official data for comparison