Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors in Oklahoma
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$77,084
after federal, FICA and Oklahoma tax
Tax takes
$25,806
25.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$87,311
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
$102,890
Kept after tax
$77,084
Worth in national money
$87,311
State rank
29
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Oklahoma sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $102,890, ranking 29 of 45 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 492 occupations Oklahoma reports, this job comes in at 36 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $102,890 you keep $77,084 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $87,311 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $112,150, since top earners drag the number up.
- Oklahoma occupies the middle band for health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors: a median of $102,890, ranking 29 of 45. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors ranks 36 of 492 occupations by median in Oklahoma, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Retained pay in Oklahoma is $77,084 after the full tax stack, from $102,890. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $87,311 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $112,150 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $66,650 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $102,890 |
| Top tenth earn over | $167,910 |
| This salary | $102,890 |
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 | $77,084 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $81,213 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,737 |
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 | $97,020 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$5,162 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 88 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Oklahoma earn less than $102,890. The published range is $66,650 up to $167,910, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Oklahoma's $77,084, worked from $102,890. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 36 of 492.
- Two cautions on $87,311, the adjusted value of that $102,890 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 36 of 492 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors in Oklahoma the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $66,650 to $167,910. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Oklahoma take-home of $77,084, on $102,890 for work ranking 36 of 492 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 36 of 492 in the state.
- This $87,311 adjusted figure, worked from $102,890, 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 36 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 36 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $112,150, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $66,650 at the bottom tenth to $167,910 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $87,311.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Oklahoma's own levy, $77,084 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 45 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Oklahoma is $112,150. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($66,650) and the ninetieth ($167,910) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
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 $87,311 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 $77,084 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.