HR Manager Salary in Oklahoma (2026)

Worth knowing: Hobby Lobby HQ Oklahoma City + Love's Travel Stops HQ OKC anchor OK's substantial private-company multi-site retail HR cluster + a feature most national HR-career surveys understate for OK. The OK private retail HR cluster (Hobby Lobby ~43K global employees across ~1,000 stores; Love's Travel Stops ~40K employees across ~660 stores; OnCue Express ~3K convenience store employees; QuikTrip Tulsa-area operations + multiple other private retailers) creates substantial multi-site retail HR + field HR + DC HR workforce — both Hobby Lobby + Love's are family-owned private companies (David Green + Tom Love families respectively) with distinctive corporate cultures supporting senior multi-site retail HRBP specialists at $108-170K TC. Tinker AFB Oklahoma City (~26K total workforce including ~10K civilian + ~5K active duty + ~11K contractors) operates substantial cleared federal HR + security clearance management at scale. The OK energy HR environment (Devon + Chesapeake + Continental + ONEOK + Williams + Helmerich & Payne + numerous smaller operators) supports substantial energy-industry HR + drilling rig crew + completions crew HR + OFS labor force management. Paycom OKC (Fortune 500 SaaS) operates substantial in-house HR. OK is RTW since 2001 (Oklahoma SQ 695, 54%-46% passage) + ~5% union density (among lowest US). American Airlines Tulsa Maintenance Base (~5K, the country's largest commercial aircraft maintenance base) operates with substantial TWU + IAM union representation — distinctive within OK. OK's flat 4.75% + no estate tax.