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What Entry-Level Work Really Pays in Oklahoma City · The 405 Payroll

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  Quick test.
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  What do you think a decent entry level job pays in Oklahoma City right now?
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  Just a gut number.
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  Uh, fifteen an hour?
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  Maybe sixteen if somebody's feeling generous.
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  That's what I assumed too.
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  Then I looked at a ZipRecruiter page for OKC jobs, and, um,
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  it says the 25th percentile is $44,500 a year.
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  That's about $21.40 an hour.
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  The median is $61,500.
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  Wait, the bottom quarter starts at twenty one forty?
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  That sounds off.
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  Fair.
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  It's one job board's math, and they call everything below that line outliers,
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  so I'd hold it loosely.
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  But take the gap between your sixteen and their $21.40.
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  That's $5.40 an hour.
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  Over about 173 hours a month, that's roughly $934 in gross monthly room.
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  For a renter, that's, that's a whole car payment, or most of a rent check.
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  Okay, that I can picture.
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  So where are the actual jobs?
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  Start with a Glassdoor listing.
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  SSC Services for Education is hiring a full time Administrative Assistant at Moore
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  Public Schools, 1500 Southeast 4th Street.
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  Fixed pay, $21.63 an hour, Monday through Friday.
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  Fixed.
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  So no, no guessing on the paycheck.
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  Right.
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  And the listing says they offer same day pay, plus a benefits package with medical,
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  dental, vision, and a 401K match.
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  The requirement is three years of admin experience.
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  It doesn't mention a degree.
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  Applications are online only.
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  Three years is not nothing, though.
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  And I'm gonna push on this.
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  School district office work, calendars, expense reports, minutes for meetings,
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  that's a lot of bureaucracy.
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  I'd take warehouse overtime over that any day.
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  Okay, but overtime is, is the thing that gets cut.
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  You talked last episode about that 3 PM to 1:30 AM swing shift.
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  Great when the hours are there.
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  When they trim the shift, your month shrinks, and, um, your sleep schedule already
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  paid the price.
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  Hmm.
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  So you're saying the boring schedule is the benefit.
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  Same hours every week.
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  You can plan a rent date around it, a childcare pickup around it.
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  The pay doesn't swing.
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  That's worth something, even if the office is dull.
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  Fine.
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  Dull with a steady paycheck, I'll allow it.
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  What if you don't have the three years?
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  Indeed has an ALDI listing for part time cashiers and stockers in OKC.
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  Starting wage $18.00 an hour, and the listing shows step increases.
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  $18.50 in year two, $19 in year three, $19 in year four, then $20 in year five.
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  Part time though.
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  Part time means, what, twenty hours?
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  Fewer than 30 hours a week, per the listing.
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  And stockers have to be able to arrive as early as 5:00 AM.
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  Five AM.
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  Me, the former morning show guy, saying that's rough.
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  But you're done by afternoon.
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  That frees up school pickup, or a class.
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  Which brings us to the next piece.
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  Francis Tuttle Technology Center in OKC charges career training tuition at $3.00 per
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  clock hour.
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  So a career major with 1,000 hours costs $3,000.
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  That's from their cost page.
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  Three dollars an hour.
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  Like, for school.
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  I keep doing the math backwards.
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  The math is just hours times three.
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  A 600 hour program would be $1,800.
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  Their program list has Advanced Manufacturing, with tracks like instrumentation and
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  process control technician, at Portland and Reno.
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  Machining, with a CNC machinist major, is at Portland.
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  Out of state is double, by the way, $6.00 an hour.
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  And you pay it how?
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  Out of pocket?
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  Pay in full, federal aid or scholarships if you qualify, or a payment plan with a
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  down payment.
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  I can't promise which fits you.
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  Those are their listed options.
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  Okay.
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  So that's the long game.
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  What about the short game?
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  Like, rent is due Friday.
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  Talento Logistics has a ZipRecruiter posting for a FedEx Ground Alternative Vehicle
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  Program delivery driver in OKC.
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  You deliver packages using your own vehicle, $140 a day.
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  A hundred forty.
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  So two days is, um, two eighty.
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  If two days are offered.
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  The posting doesn't say weekends, so I'd ask before counting it.
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  And your own vehicle means your own gas and wear, which, uh,
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  that $140 doesn't account for.
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  Right.
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  Gross isn't take home.
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  Got it.
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  Now the serious one.
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  Catholic Charities in OKC runs emergency rent and utility help.
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  Their OKC metro application opens online Mondays at 8:30 AM.
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  The form closes after they accept six clients, then reopens the next Monday at 8:30.
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  Six.
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  Six people a week, in a whole metro?
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  That's what the page says.
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  And funding is limited, assistance isn't guaranteed.
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  You'd need proof of income, photo ID, a past due notice with your lease,
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  and an intake with a case manager.
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  It's once a year per household, three times in a lifetime.
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  So it's a stopgap, not a plan.
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  Exactly how they describe it.
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  The Community Action Agency of Oklahoma City also lists rent and mortgage
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  assistance.
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  Their number is four oh five, two three two, oh one nine nine.
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  Okay, here's my worry.
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  People read a list like this, and they're working fifty hours already,
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  and they're fried, and nothing happens.
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  I've been that guy with the tab open for a week.
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  So make it tiny.
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  What's the one move?
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  Before five o'clock today, one of two things.
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  Submit the Moore Public Schools application, if you've got the experience.
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  Or call the Francis Tuttle cashier at four oh five, seven one seven,
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  four two two four, and just ask how tuition works for a program.
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  Five minutes.
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  That's it.