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Plumber salary in Oklahoma City, OK

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Oklahoma City, OK area earn a median of $59,150 a year, or $28.44 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $83,260. Statewide, plumbers earn a median of $57,970; Oklahoma City is 2% above it.

Median yearly pay$59,150
Bottom 10% under$38,760Top 10% over$83,260
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$18.63/hr
Jobs in this area
2,400
After cost of living
$65,430
Median hourly pay
$28.44/hr
vs U.S. median
−7%
vs Oklahoma median
+2%
Mean (average) pay
$61,390 a year · $29.51 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 36420, Oklahoma City, OK). Excludes self-employed plumbers. Cost of living: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024. *Starting pay is estimated from the 10th percentile; BLS does not report pay by license level.

Pay by percentile

What plumbers in Oklahoma City, 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.

PercentileHourlyYearly
10th percentile$18.63$38,760
25th percentile$22.73$47,270
Median (50th)$28.44$59,150
75th percentile$38.02$79,080
90th percentile$40.03$83,260

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.

How Oklahoma City, OK compares

  • Oklahoma City ranks 2nd of 5 Oklahoma metro areas for plumber pay.
  • Plumbers are more concentrated in the Oklahoma City area than nationally: 3.5 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.2 times the U.S. share.

Other Oklahoma metro areas

Other trades in Oklahoma City, OK

Questions

Do plumbers make more in Oklahoma City or Tulsa?
Pay is about the same: the median is $59,150 in Oklahoma City and $59,440 in Tulsa.

About this data

Wages are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for May 2025, occupation 47-2152 (Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters), area code 36420 (Oklahoma City, OK). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed plumbers 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 (90.4, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures