Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall in Oklahoma
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$38,239
after federal, FICA and Oklahoma tax
Tax takes
$8,641
18.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$43,313
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
$46,880
Kept after tax
$38,239
Worth in national money
$43,313
State rank
36
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Oklahoma pays this job a middle wage of $46,880, 36 of 48 states and about 4.56% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 299 among 492 occupations Oklahoma publishes pay for.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $46,880 you keep $38,239 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $43,313 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $49,380, since top earners drag the number up.
- Oklahoma's $46,880 median for insulation workers, floor, ceiling, and wall places it 36 of 48 states, about 4.56% 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.
- Position 299 of 492 in Oklahoma places insulation workers, floor, ceiling, and wall in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Retained pay in Oklahoma is $38,239 after the full tax stack, from $46,880. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $43,313 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $49,380 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,870 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $46,880 |
| Top tenth earn over | $70,160 |
| This salary | $46,880 |
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 | $38,239 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $39,848 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,306 |
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 | $44,877 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,789 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 88 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $46,880 as a midpoint for Oklahoma, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $34,870 and the ninetieth is $70,160 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Oklahoma's $38,239, worked from $46,880. 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 299 of 492.
- Two cautions on $43,313, the adjusted value of that $46,880 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 299 of 492 locally.
- The Oklahoma median of $46,880 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $34,870 to $70,160. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Oklahoma take-home of $38,239, on $46,880 for work ranking 299 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 299 of 492 in the state.
- This $43,313 adjusted figure, worked from $46,880, 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 299 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 299 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $49,380, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $34,870 and the top tenth $70,160 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $43,313.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Oklahoma then takes its own share, leaving $38,239.
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 48 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 $49,380. 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 ($34,870) and the ninetieth ($70,160) 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 $43,313 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 $38,239 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.