Surveyors in Oklahoma
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$49,177
after federal, FICA and Oklahoma tax
Tax takes
$12,123
19.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$55,701
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
$61,300
Kept after tax
$49,177
Worth in national money
$55,701
State rank
46
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Oklahoma pays surveyors a middle wage of $61,300, 46 of 50 states and about 18.74% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Against other work in Oklahoma, this sits in the middle: 178 of 492 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Oklahoma is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $61,300 the take-home is $49,177; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $55,701 would nationally. The average comes to $68,290, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Oklahoma's $61,300 median for surveyors places it 46 of 50 states, about 18.74% 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.
- Surveyors ranks 178 of 492 occupations in Oklahoma by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Post-tax income for surveyors in Oklahoma, on $61,300, is $49,177 — equivalent to $55,701 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 $68,290 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Surveyors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,510 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $61,300 |
| Top tenth earn over | $103,270 |
| This salary | $61,300 |
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 | $49,177 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,435 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,772 |
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 | $58,490 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,352 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 88 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $61,300 as a midpoint for Oklahoma, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $37,510 and the ninetieth is $103,270 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $49,177 take-home in Oklahoma comes from $61,300. 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 178 of 492.
- Two cautions on $55,701, the adjusted value of that $61,300 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 178 of 492 locally.
- The Oklahoma median of $61,300 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $37,510 to $103,270. 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 $49,177, from $61,300, 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 178 of 492 locally, and the state ranks 46 of 50 for it.
- This $55,701 adjusted figure, worked from $61,300, 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 178 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 178 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 $68,290 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $37,510, the highest tenth $103,270, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $55,701 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 $49,177 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 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 $68,290. 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 ($37,510) and the ninetieth ($103,270) 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 $55,701 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 $49,177 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.