Elevator mechanic salary in Tulsa, OK
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Elevator mechanics in the Tulsa, OK area earn a median of $107,440 a year, or $51.65 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $122,350 a year. Across all of Oklahoma, the median is $105,430, so Tulsa pays 2% more than the state as a whole.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $18.53/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 90
- After cost of living
- $120,430
- Median hourly pay
- $51.65/hr
- vs U.S. median
- −2%
- vs Oklahoma median
- +2%
- Mean (average) pay
- $97,990 a year · $47.11 an hour
Pay by percentile
What elevator mechanics in Tulsa, OK earn at each point of the pay range, May 2025: 10% earn less than the 10th percentile, half earn less than the median, and 10% earn more than the 90th.
| Percentile | Hourly | Yearly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $18.53 | $38,530 |
| 25th percentile | $31.98 | $66,520 |
| Median (50th) | $51.65 | $107,440 |
| 75th percentile | $58.80 | $122,310 |
| 90th percentile | $58.82 | $122,350 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Tulsa, OK compares
- Elevator mechanics are more concentrated in the Tulsa area than nationally: 0.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.2 times the U.S. share.
Other trades in Tulsa, OK
About this data
Wages are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for May 2025, occupation 47-4021 (Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers), area code 46140 (Tulsa, OK). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed elevator mechanics and business owners aren't included. The cost-of-living figure divides the median by the Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Price Parity for 2024 (89.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures