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Oklahoma City Aerospace Jobs That Lead Somewhere · The 405 Payroll

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  Twenty four ninety five.
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  That's the average hourly pay for aerospace work in Oklahoma City,
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  according to ZipRecruiter data.
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  And I keep picturing someone stuck at, say, sixteen an hour,
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  scrolling right past that number and thinking, yeah, that's for engineers.
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  Which is the assumption.
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  Defense manufacturing means a degree.
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  Right.
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  Um, and the same ZipRecruiter data says most aerospace workers there land between
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  seventeen twenty one and twenty eight sixty one an hour.
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  So the, the floor isn't the basement.
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  Okay, so what does the door actually look like?
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  Last time we were in distribution warehouses.
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  This is the next rung, southwest OKC.
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  Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems, zip code seven three one seven nine.
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  The listing we're working from wants Aircraft Assemblers and Composite Assemblers,
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  level one.
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  High school diploma, basic tape measure skills, aptitude with hand tools and you're
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  assembling jet powered unmanned aircraft.
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  Jet powered.
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  With a tape measure.
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  I know.
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  I had the same face.
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  The schedule is what caught me.
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  The Kratos posting says swing shift is 3:00 PM to 1:30 AM, Monday through Thursday.
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  Hold on, that's, uh, ten and a half hours a day.
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  Four days.
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  Forty two a week, by my math.
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  Your math holds.
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  And the trade is, no Friday commute, so gas money stays in the tank,
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  and you get three days in a row.
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  Childcare, sleep, a side gig.
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  But one thirty in the morning.
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  I did mornings on the radio for years, and a weird body clock is,
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  it's not nothing.
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  Nights aren't free just because Fridays are.
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  Fair.
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  It's a trade, not a gift.
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  Now here's the other thing about reading job boards.
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  They show you the hourly wage and nothing else.
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  Which is the number I'd look at.
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  Sure.
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  But the City of Oklahoma City's benefits page says its total compensation package,
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  benefits and retirement, averages about twenty two thousand dollars per employee on
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  top of your wages.
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  Spread that over a full time year, roughly two thousand hours,
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  and that's around eleven dollars an hour.
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  My rough math, so don't quote me to the penny.
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  Wait, so a city job posting with a lower wage could beat a higher one once you count
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  the healthcare and retirement.
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  That's the point.
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  The city also reimburses tuition for full time employees on most pay plans,
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  up to twelve fifty per semester.
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  You apply at four twenty West Main Street or through okc dot gov slash careers.
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  Okay, so say you get in the door.
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  How do you climb past entry level without drowning in student loans?
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  Moore Norman Technology Center.
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  Franklin Road campus.
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  Their admissions page lists tuition at two dollars and fifty cents per academic
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  clock hour for in district students, and three dollars for out of district.
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  Two fifty.
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  Per hour.
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  That's, that's a vending machine snack.
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  Do the hypothetical.
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  A program that ran a thousand clock hours would be twenty five hundred dollars in
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  tuition.
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  Hypothetical, so check the real program hours.
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  The outline we're working from points to CNC Machining and Electrical Trades,
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  aiming at twenty four to thirty dollars an hour.
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  And that range is the target, not a promise.
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  Right.
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  Also, for eligible Native students, the Citizen Potawatomi Nation's NACTEP program
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  is described as offering full tuition sponsorship and living stipends.
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  Kourtney Jones manages it, four oh five, eight seven eight,
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  three eight five four.
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  Confirm eligibility with her.
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  Alright, my turn.
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  Cash flow while you're retraining.
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  Thunder season, Paycom Center, one Myriad Gardens.
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  The range we're working from says event attendants and guest crew work four to six
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  hour evening shifts at fifteen to eighteen an hour.
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  And that fits with the Kratos schedule how?
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  Um, Kratos is Monday to Thursday, so weekends are open.
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  Two or three shifts is about a hundred fifty to two fifty dollars.
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  But, uh, weeknight home games would collide with a swing shift,
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  so pick your nights.
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  And confirm the pay with the venue.
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  Numbers move.
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  Yeah.
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  Now the hard one.
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  What if the car dies or the medical bill lands, and the rent is due Friday?
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  A Heartline 211 listing describes NSO's Stay Housed program as providing eviction
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  prevention services and legal advocacy for renters experiencing sudden financial
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  crisis, such as medical bills or emergency car repair.
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  The Tenant Advocacy Center is at thirteen eighteen Linwood Boulevard,
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  phone four oh five, nine eight four, four two oh two.
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  So call before it's a court date, not after.
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  That's the idea.
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  And here's the day one challenge.
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  Before 5:00 PM today, do one thing.
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  Submit an online profile on the Kratos Defense careers page,
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  or call the Moore Norman Bursar at four oh five, eight zero one,
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  five zero nine zero and ask about course start dates.
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  One thing.
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  Not a whole life plan.
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  I can do a phone call.
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  Then go do it.
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  That's the show.