High paying science jobs in Oklahoma

Every science occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Oklahoma. Read the percentile range, not just the median: the gap between the 10th and 90th inside a single science job is usually wider than the gap between two different ones, so where you land in a field matters more than which field you pick.

Cost of living: prices in Oklahoma run 12.2% below the national average (2024), so a Oklahoma salary is worth about 1.14× its face value in national terms. That scales every wage here by the same factor — it changes what the numbers mean, not their order. To see where a job pays a real premium, use jobs that pay more in Oklahoma.

Wages: BLS OEWS, May 2025 · Cost of living: BEA regional price parities, 2024

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Oklahoma. The rarer ones are real jobs — but a 1,190-person occupation at the top of a list answers a different question than the one most readers are asking.