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The Tinker Paycheck Opportunity · The 405 Payroll

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  Welcome to The 405 Payroll, the lunch break show for Oklahoma City people who work
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  hard and want the paycheck to catch up.
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  I'm Claire Brooks.
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  Today's headline sits next to Tinker Air Force Base.
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  Pratt and Whitney has opened a $255 million, 845,000 square foot
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  military engine facility on 48 acres, right where the old BMY combat vehicle plant
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  stood.
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  And I'm Miles.
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  A number like $255 million usually sounds like somebody else's news.
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  So what's in it for a person paying rent in Midwest City, Moore,
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  or Southwest OKC?
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  Fair question.
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  The site does maintenance, repair, and overhaul on military engines,
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  including the ones in the F 35 and the C 17.
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  The estimate is about 400 new jobs, and not all of them are engineers.
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  Our research says it's also building out parts warehousing,
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  tool crib, and inventory roles, with pay reported at $20 to $25 an hour and up.
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  Treat that as a reported range and check the real posting before you plan around it.
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  Tool crib.
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  So the person who knows where every wrench is and who borrowed it.
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  That's a real skill, though.
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  Somebody has to keep a building like that running.
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  It is, and you can build it in a warehouse job you may already have.
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  Now, rent day.
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  Median rent across the metro for a one or two bedroom runs about $1,050 to $1,150 a
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  month.
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  At $15 an hour you earn about $2,600 before taxes and roughly $2,100 after.
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  Rent takes close to half.
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  Yeah.
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  That's the math that makes a month feel tight, and it has nothing to do with effort.
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  You're already working hard.
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  Exactly.
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  Now flip it.
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  At $21 to $26 an hour, you're at about $3,640 to $4,500 a month before taxes,
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  and that same rent falls under the 30 percent benchmark people use for
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  affordability.
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  Same apartment, same you, different number on the paycheck.
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  So today isn't about chasing one plant.
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  It's about a plan.
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  Who's hiring right now at real pay, what training moves someone from the mid teens
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  to the mid twenties, and a few ways to bring in extra cash this week.
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  But Claire, should anyone wait for the Pratt and Whitney postings first?
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  No.
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  Use it as a signal.
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  When a big aerospace employer opens by Tinker, warehouse and logistics skills get
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  more valuable across the metro, so start now, in a job that builds them.