OKLAHOMA CITY – Nonfarm employment in Oklahoma totaled 1,752,900 in December 2023, the most current data provided by the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission showed.
Total nonfarm employment in the Lawton metropolitan statistical area numbered 43,800; Oklahoma City, 696,900; Tulsa, 471,000; Enid, 24,000.
A sampling of employment by occupations included: • federal government: 53,500
• state government: 85,200
• local government: 229,400
• Native America tribes: 50,700
• construction: 85,900
• construction of buildings: 16,700
• heavy and civil engineering construction: 16,700
• building equipment contractors: 32,100
• manufacturing: 136,800
• machinery manufacturing: 24,000
• fabricated metal product manufacturing: 23,100
• mining and logging: 31,900
• private education and health services: 255,500
• health care and social assistance: 234,000
• ambulatory health care: 84,400
• nursing and residential care facilities: 33,000
• trade, transportation, and utilities: 323,600
• transportation, warehousing, and utilities: 77,800
• utilities: 10,300
• retail trade: 187,700
• general merchandise retailers: 46,500
• food/beverage retailers: 24,300
• full-service restaurants: 62,600
• food services and drinking places: 147,500
• financial activities: 80,300
• finance and insurance: 59,200
• arts, entertainment, recreation: 21,600
• information: 16,700
• telecommunications: 7,600
• auto dealers: 16,100
• legal services: 12,200.