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How to Raise Your Pay in Oklahoma City · The 405 Payroll

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  One number has been bugging me.
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  ZipRecruiter says the median warehouse wage in Oklahoma City is fifteen dollars and
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  sixty six cents an hour.
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  Okay, that's, um, that's not great.
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  Is that the real story, though?
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  That's the floor, and it's misleading.
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  Look at the listings on those same pages.
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  POOLCORP, at 308 Hudiburg Circle, is hiring Warehouse Associates at nineteen to
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  twenty dollars an hour.
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  And they say up to twenty five hundred dollars more in performance bonuses.
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  Wait, bonuses on top?
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  For a warehouse job?
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  That's what the listing says.
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  The schedule is Monday through Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM.
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  Thirteen days of paid time off, eight paid holidays, and fully funded tuition
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  programs.
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  And US Foods has a night forklift job at twenty three fifty to twenty four an hour,
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  but it's forty five to fifty hours a week.
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  Okay, so this is the daytime versus overtime fight again.
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  I used to work mornings that started before sunrise, so I, I,
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  I have opinions.
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  Nights pay more.
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  Fine.
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  But who is that person at hour forty eight?
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  Let's do the math first.
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  A four dollar bump, across about one seventy three working hours a month,
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  is roughly six hundred ninety two dollars gross.
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  Six ninety two.
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  That's a car payment and then some.
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  Right.
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  And that's before overtime.
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  So the night shift is tempting.
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  But, hmm, the listing says forty five to fifty.
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  You're trading sleep and dinners for that six ninety two.
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  And a lot of people think that's a good trade right up until week six.
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  I'll concede the burnout part.
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  But the daytime path isn't flat either.
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  McKesson lists a warehouse worker starting at nineteen seventy,
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  rising to twenty seventy eight within twelve months.
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  So the raise is already scheduled.
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  I like that.
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  You don't have to ask for it or hustle for it.
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  Exactly the point.
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  Steady is boring, but boring is predictable.
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  You can plan rent around a check you can see coming.
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  Okay, but, but, I'd push back a little.
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  If the rent is due Friday and the check is short, boring doesn't help you.
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  Fair.
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  That's where the rest of this goes.
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  Okay, so say somebody's stuck at sixteen an hour.
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  What's the way up that doesn't mean borrowing a pile of money?
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  Francis Tuttle Technology Center has a Flex Health program for phlebotomy
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  technician, at the Rockwell campus.
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  Per their page, it's forty eight hours of instruction over ten weeks,
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  self paced and hybrid.
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  And the total cost is three ninety nine.
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  Three ninety nine.
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  Total?
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  Like, everything?
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  Tuition is two seventy nine, supplies are eighty, and the book is forty.
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  That's the breakdown as we read it.
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  Hourly pay afterward is roughly nineteen seventy one to twenty five sixty nine,
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  though that range is a ballpark, so check it for yourself.
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  And hybrid means I'm not quitting my job to sit in a classroom all day.
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  Right.
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  Students pick days and hours that fit and set a target end date.
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  Some of it can be done over Zoom, though skills and exams happen in person.
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  Okay.
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  That's the long game.
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  What about the short game?
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  Because the rent doesn't care that I'm enrolled in something.
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  That's Wonolo.
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  Their Oklahoma City page says, quote, browse through a variety of same day jobs in
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  various industries such as retail, logistics, event staff, and delivery.
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  The warehouse shifts we saw run about a hundred to a hundred forty six eighty eight.
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  Retail gigs go up to a hundred sixty two.
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  A hundred forty six eighty eight.
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  That's weirdly specific.
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  Listings are specific.
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  Those are one day payouts, and they'll vary, so treat them as examples.
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  Can I admit something?
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  When expenses pile up, I, I, I freeze.
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  I do nothing.
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  I tell myself I'll deal with it after payday, and then the bill is two bills.
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  That's the part nobody budgets for.
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  The delay costs more than the bill.
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  Yeah.
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  So is there a, a something for the actual rent crunch?
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  Community Action Agency of Oklahoma City.
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  Their site says, quote, we help families with young children access the tools they
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  need to move out of poverty and thrive.
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  They've got rent and mortgage assistance programs.
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  The number listed is four oh five, two three two, oh one nine nine.
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  Okay, and, um, there's a catch.
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  Offices close.
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  Call at 4:55 and you're talking to a voicemail.
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  So that's the five o'clock rule.
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  Do the thing before the office closes.
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  Fine.
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  One small step, today.
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  Five minutes.
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  Download Wonolo, or send Francis Tuttle a flexible training inquiry.
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  And if the check is short this month, make the call before five.
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  Yeah.
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  I'll do it.
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  Alright, that's it from me.