Interior Designers in Oklahoma
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$54,451
after federal, FICA and Oklahoma tax
Tax takes
$14,069
20.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$61,676
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
$68,520
Kept after tax
$54,451
Worth in national money
$61,676
State rank
13
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Oklahoma pays interior designers a middle wage of $68,520, ranking 13 of 49 states and sitting about 1.98% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Interior designers ranks 134 among 492 occupations Oklahoma publishes pay for.
- Oklahoma is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $68,520 the take-home is $54,451; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $61,676 would nationally. The average comes to $69,220, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Oklahoma's median for interior designers is $68,520, about 1.98% above the national figure and 13 of 49 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Position 134 of 492 in Oklahoma places interior designers 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.
- Post-tax income for interior designers in Oklahoma, on $68,520, is $54,451 — equivalent to $61,676 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 $69,220 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Interior Designers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,460 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $68,520 |
| Top tenth earn over | $105,380 |
| This salary | $68,520 |
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 | $54,451 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $57,034 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,984 |
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 | $65,054 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,121 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 88 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $68,520 as a midpoint for Oklahoma, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $38,460 and the ninetieth is $105,380 — 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 $54,451, worked from $68,520. 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 134 of 492.
- Two cautions on $61,676, the adjusted value of that $68,520 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 134 of 492 locally.
- The Oklahoma median of $68,520 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $38,460 to $105,380. 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 $54,451, on $68,520 for work ranking 134 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 134 of 492 in the state.
- This $61,676 adjusted figure, worked from $68,520, 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 134 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 134 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $38,460 and the top tenth $105,380 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Oklahoma sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $61,676 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 $54,451 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($38,460) and the ninetieth ($105,380) 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 $61,676 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 $54,451 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.