Pharmacy Aides in Oklahoma
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$25,709
after federal, FICA and Oklahoma tax
Tax takes
$4,651
15.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$29,120
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
$30,360
Kept after tax
$25,709
Worth in national money
$29,120
State rank
46
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for pharmacy aides is on the low side in Oklahoma. The middle earner gets $30,360. That is 46 of 48 states, and about 19.43% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 492 occupations Oklahoma publishes, pharmacy aides lands at 456. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $30,360 you keep $25,709 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $29,120 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $32,250, since top earners drag the number up.
- For pharmacy aides, Oklahoma sits in the lower band at $30,360, ranking 46 of 48 and trailing the national median by about 19.43%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Oklahoma, this work ranks 456 of 492 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Retained pay in Oklahoma is $25,709 after the full tax stack, from $30,360. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $29,120 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $32,250 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Pharmacy Aides
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $22,460 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $30,360 |
| Top tenth earn over | $40,880 |
| This salary | $30,360 |
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 | $25,709 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $26,574 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,773 |
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 | $29,283 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,144 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 88 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of pharmacy aides in Oklahoma earn under $30,360 and half over. The published range runs $22,460 at the tenth percentile to $40,880 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Oklahoma's $25,709, worked from $30,360. 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 456 of 492.
- Two cautions on $29,120, the adjusted value of that $30,360 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 456 of 492 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for pharmacy aides in Oklahoma, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $22,460 to $40,880; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- The Oklahoma take-home of $25,709, on $30,360 for work ranking 456 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 456 of 492 in the state.
- This $29,120 adjusted figure, worked from $30,360, 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 456 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 456 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $32,250 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $22,460 and the top tenth $40,880, so most people doing this work in Oklahoma sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Oklahoma is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $29,120 in national terms.
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 $25,709.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 48 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
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 $32,250. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($22,460 to $40,880) 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 $29,120 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 $25,709 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.