Aircraft Service Attendants in Oklahoma
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$30,472
after federal, FICA and Oklahoma tax
Tax takes
$6,168
16.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$34,515
Oklahoma costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Oklahoma — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$36,640
Kept after tax
$30,472
Worth in national money
$34,515
State rank
41
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Oklahoma pays aircraft service attendants a middle wage of $36,640, 41 of 46 states and about 9.42% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Oklahoma this is lower-paid work. Of 492 occupations the state publishes figures for, aircraft service attendants ranks 413. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Oklahoma is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $36,640 the take-home is $30,472; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $34,515 would nationally. The average comes to $37,230, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Oklahoma's $36,640 median for aircraft service attendants places it 41 of 46 states, about 9.42% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Against every occupation Oklahoma reports, aircraft service attendants ranks 413 of 492, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Post-tax income for aircraft service attendants in Oklahoma, on $36,640, is $30,472 — equivalent to $34,515 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $37,230 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Aircraft Service Attendants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $28,710 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $36,640 |
| Top tenth earn over | $44,740 |
| This salary | $36,640 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Oklahoma | $30,472 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $31,620 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,976 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $35,211 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,389 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 88 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $36,640 as a midpoint for Oklahoma, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $28,710 and the ninetieth is $44,740 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $30,472 take-home in Oklahoma comes from $36,640. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 413 of 492.
- Two cautions on $34,515, the adjusted value of that $36,640 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Oklahoma. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 413 of 492 locally.
- The Oklahoma median of $36,640 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $28,710 to $44,740. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $30,472, from $36,640, assumes a single Oklahoma filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 413 of 492 locally, and the state ranks 41 of 46 for it.
- This $34,515 adjusted figure, worked from $36,640, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 413 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 413 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $28,710 at the tenth percentile, $44,740 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $34,515.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Oklahoma adds its own income tax on top — which is why $30,472 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 46 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($28,710 to $44,740) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Oklahoma rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Oklahoma's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $34,515 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $30,472 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Oklahoma income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.