Software Engineer Salary in Oklahoma (2026)

Worth knowing: Paycom HQ Oklahoma City is one of the country's largest SaaS payroll + HR companies HQ'd outside the major coastal tech metros and a feature most national SE surveys understate for OK. Paycom (Fortune 500, ~$1.7B revenue, ~6K Oklahoma City employees, founded 1998 by Chad Richison as one of the early US cloud-native payroll + HR + talent platforms, public on NYSE since 2014) operates substantial in-house cloud engineering supporting Paycom's full-suite HCM platform serving ~36K+ US client companies + millions of employee users. Senior Paycom engineers clear $135-210K TC. Devon Energy HQ Oklahoma City (Fortune 500 oil + gas E&P, ~$15B revenue, ~2.5K OKC employees, the country's top-10 onshore oil + gas producer with substantial Anadarko + Permian + Delaware Basin operations post-2021 WPX Energy merger) operates substantial in-house drilling + reservoir + well-data + production engineering software. ONEOK HQ Tulsa (Fortune 500 midstream pipeline post-2023 Magellan Midstream Partners acquisition, ~$25B revenue, the country's largest US midstream pipeline company by some measures with ~50K miles of NGL + natural gas + refined products pipelines) operates substantial SCADA + pipeline integrity + market analytics + customer-facing tech. OK's flat 4.75% rate (post-2021 HB 2962 reform from progressive 0.5-5%) is substantially lower than OR/MN's 9.85-9.9% tops + OK has no state estate tax + RTW since 2001 + low cost of living.