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Oklahoma state payroll

Oklahoma’s state payroll paid $4.4 billion in pay lines of every type in FY2026, according to Oklahoma Management and Enterprise Services.

OMES publishes every pay line its central payroll paid, with the agency and the pay type, for each month from July 2010. 1,900,071 lines in FY2026, through 148 agencies.

Oklahoma’s state payroll, FY2026

$4.4 billion
Paid
$4,413,443,883
Every pay line in FY2026's twelve months, July to June.
1.9 million
Lines published
1,900,071
One line per person, pay type and pay period, as OMES publishes them.
148
Agencies
Agencies whose payroll OMES paid in FY2026.

Every period OMES publishes

Oklahoma's state payroll paid $4.4 billion in FY2026, against $3.2 billion in calendar 2011, in each year's dollars

Every pay line OMES published for each of its periods, summed: calendar years to 2020, fiscal years (July to June) from FY2021. FY2022 is not drawn: its monthly files restate earlier months and do not agree. Not adjusted for inflation.

OMES publishes calendar years to 2020 and fiscal years, July to June, from FY2021. Calendar 2020 and FY2021 each hold July to December 2020, so the two are never added together and no change is set across the switch.

Not adjusted for inflation: a dollar in the first year bought more than a dollar in the last, and this chart does not say how much more.

Source: Oklahoma Management and Enterprise Services

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The figures

Oklahoma's state payroll paid $4.4 billion in FY2026, against $3.2 billion in calendar 2011, in each year's dollars. Every pay line OMES published for each of its periods, summed: calendar years to 2020, fiscal years (July to June) from FY2021. FY2022 is not drawn: its monthly files restate earlier months and do not agree. Not adjusted for inflation.
PeriodPaid
2010 (part)$1.6 billion
2011$3.2 billion
2012$3.3 billion
2013$3.3 billion
2014$3.4 billion
2015$3.5 billion
2016$3.5 billion
2017$3.5 billion
2018$3.6 billion
2019$3.5 billion
2020$3.8 billion
FY2021$3.8 billion
FY2023$3.9 billion
FY2024$4.2 billion
FY2025$4.2 billion
FY2026$4.4 billion
FY2027 (part)$769.9 million

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What Oklahoma's state payroll paid in each of OMES's periods
PeriodPaid
FY2027 (part)$769.9 million
FY2026$4.4 billion
FY2025$4.2 billion
FY2024$4.2 billion
FY2023$3.9 billion
FY2021$3.8 billion
2020$3.8 billion
2019$3.5 billion
2018$3.6 billion
2017$3.5 billion
2016$3.5 billion
2015$3.5 billion
2014$3.4 billion
2013$3.3 billion
2012$3.3 billion
2011$3.2 billion
2010 (part)$1.6 billion

OMES publishes calendar years to 2020 and fiscal years, July to June, from FY2021. Calendar 2020 and FY2021 each hold July to December 2020, so the two are never added together and no change is set across the switch. FY2022 is not shown: OMES's monthly files for that year restate earlier months and do not agree; we have asked OMES. 2010 holds 6 months, Jul 2010 to Dec 2010, as OMES published them, and no change is set against it. FY2027 holds 2 months, Jul 2026 to Aug 2026, as OMES published them, and no change is set against it. Line counts are given within a period and not compared across periods, because OMES’s files are not cut the same way in every one: the files from September 2012 to December 2015 carry tens of thousands of zero-dollar lines a month that the files before and after do not, an agency paid every two weeks prints twice the lines of one paid monthly for the same pay, and a month with three biweekly paydays prints more than a month with two.

Every agency, FY2026

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Oklahoma's state agencies by what the payroll paid through them in FY2026
AgencyPaid
Oklahoma State University$585.4 million
University of Oklahoma$532.8 million
Univ. of Okla. Health Sciences Center$479.1 million
Department of Human Services$332.1 million
Department of Corrections$251.6 million
Department of Transportation$157.4 million
Oklahoma State Department of Health$115.9 million
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Serv.$108.1 million
Department of Public Safety$103.2 million
Univ. of Central Okla.$98.3 million
Department of Veterans Affairs$93.7 million
Tulsa Community College$81.5 million
Office of Management and Enterprise Serv$68.1 million
District Attorneys Council$67.3 million
Department of Rehabilitation Services$59.8 million
District Courts$55.1 million
Northeastern State University$52.7 million
Grand River Dam Auth.$52.6 million
Corporation Commission$45.5 million
Health Care Authority$44.9 million
Okla. City Community College$41.3 million
Oklahoma Tax Commission$41.0 million
Dept. of Environmental Quality$38.8 million
S. W. Okla. ST. Univ.$37.5 million
Attorney General$32.7 million
S. E. Okla. ST. Univ.$32.4 million
Oklahoma Turnpike Authority$31.8 million
State Bureau of Investigation$31.8 million
Office of Juvenile Affairs$27.5 million
Department of Tourism and Recreation$26.4 million
Rose State Colege$25.1 million
Department of Education$25.1 million
Employment Security Commission$24.7 million
Oklahoma Military Department$24.2 million
Department of Wildlife Conservation$23.9 million
East Central University$23.1 million
Dept of Agriculture Food & Forestry$22.3 million
Service Oklahoma$21.7 million
Langston University$20.5 million
Cameron University$19.2 million
Rogers State University$18.7 million
Okla. Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous$18.2 million
J.D. McCarty Center$17.7 million
Supreme Court$17.5 million
OK. House of Representatives$17.2 million
OK Medical Marijuana Authority$15.5 million
Northwestern Okla. State University$15.1 million
Indigent Defense System$15.0 million
Okla. Career and Technology Education$14.2 million
Regents for Higher Education$14.0 million
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner$13.7 million
Northern Oklahoma College$12.5 million
Univ.of Science & Arts of OK$12.3 million
Oklahoma State Senate$11.7 million
Murray State College$11.0 million
Carl Albert State College$10.5 million
Oklahoma Insurance Department$10.4 million
Department of Commerce$9.6 million
State Auditor and Inspector$8.6 million
Seminole State College$8.1 million
Water Resources Board$8.0 million
Historical Society$7.7 million
N. E. Okla. a & M College$7.7 million
Connors State College$7.5 million
Redlands Community College$7.4 million
Eastern Okla. State College$7.1 million
Okla. Panhandle State Univ.$6.5 million
Department of Labor$6.0 million
Western Okla. State College$5.8 million
State Banking Department$5.6 million
OK. Public Employees Ret. Sys.$5.5 million
Conservation Commission$5.1 million
Teachers Retirement System$4.7 million
Comm. of the Land Office$4.5 million
Alcoholic Bev. Laws Enforce.$4.3 million
Comm. on Consumer Credit$4.0 million
Council on Law Enfc. Ed. & TRNG.$3.9 million
Department of Emergency Management$3.9 million
Department of Securities$3.8 million
State Treasurer$3.8 million
Worker's Comp. Commission$3.7 million
Court of Criminal Appeals$3.3 million
Tobacco Settlement Endmt Trust$3.3 million
OK. School of Science & Math$3.0 million
Okla. Educ. Television Auth.$2.8 million
Oklahoma Lottery Commission$2.7 million
Secretary of State$2.6 million
Department of Libraries$2.5 million
Construction Industries Board$2.4 million
Governor$2.2 million
Okla. Board of Nursing$2.1 million
BD. of Med. Licensure & Supv.$2.1 million
OK Dep Aerospace & Aeronautics$2.0 million
Oklahoma Broadband Office$1.9 million
Okla. Horse Racing Comm.$1.9 million
Commission on Children and Youth$1.8 million
Pardon and Parole Board$1.7 million
Statewide Charter School Board$1.5 million
CNTR. for Advanc. of Science/Technology$1.5 million
State Election Board$1.5 million
Department of Mines$1.5 million
State Fire Marshal$1.5 million
Police Pension & Ret. System$1.3 million
Legislative Service Bureau$1.3 million
State Pharmacy Board$1.3 million
State Arts Council$1.3 million
Oklahoma Real Estate Comm.$1.2 million
Firefighters Pens. & Ret. Syst.$1.1 million
Prof. Engi. & Land Surveyors$827,836
Ethics Commission$783,177
State BD. of Osteopathic Exam.$768,073
Regional University System of Oklahoma$749,535
Oklahoma Accountancy Board$743,520
Office of Educ. Quality & Accountability$734,202
Used Motor Veh & MFG Housing$701,439
Oklahoma St.board of Dentistry$695,737
Oklahoma Workforce Commission$687,317
OK. Law Enforce. Ret. System$659,543
Liquefied Petroleum Gas BD$600,234
OK. Industrial Finance Auth.$599,365
Health Care Workforce TRNG Com$551,855
ST BD of Cosmetology and Barbering$548,140
Multiple Injury Trust Fund$544,473
Interstate Oil Compact Comm.$504,969
Office of Lieutenant Governor$484,828
Council on Judicial Complaints$417,662
OK New Motor Vehicle Comm$406,409
BD. of Chem. Test Alcohol/Drug$375,374
Okla. BD. of Architects$361,465
Boll Weevil Eradication Org.$299,065
J. M. Davis Arms & Hist. Museum$275,514
Uniform Building Code Commission$268,220
BD. of Veterinary Med. Exam.$267,150
Office of Disability Concerns$230,113
University Center at Ponca City$227,933
BD. of Priv. Vocational Schools$214,850
Board of Behavioral Health Licensure$213,742
Oklahoma Funeral Board$191,446
OK State Athletic Commission$179,979
Board of Examiners IN Optometry$178,181
OK. ST. BD. of Lic. Social Workers$171,866
ST. BD. of Chiropractic Exam.$166,950
Oklahoma Abstractors Board$165,312
Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology$158,967
BD. of Psychologists Examiners$132,675
BD of Lic Alcohol & Drug Couns$116,326
Workers Comp Court of Existing Claims$90,737
Okla. Space Industry Dev. Auth.$1,140

Every pay type, FY2026

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What Oklahoma's state payroll paid in FY2026, by OMES's pay type
Pay typePaid
Sals-Regular Pay$2.0 billion
Sals-H.Ed Prof.(Non-Teach) Pay$1.4 billion
Sals-H.Ed Non-Prof. Pay$393.1 million
Sals-H.Ed Teaching Pay$309.6 million
Overtime Wages$76.2 million
Sals-H.Ed Other Teach Pay$56.2 million
Sals-Non-Reg Pay$55.6 million
Longevity Pay-State Employees$30.9 million
Terminal Leave$30.6 million
Pay Differential$17.8 million
Holiday Pay - Payroll Only$10.9 million
Sals-Regular Pay Legislature$7.2 million
Individ.Incent.Pay-Safety Awds$3.2 million
Employee Exp.Allow-Reportable$3.1 million
Cont.Svc.Incentive Plan Pmts$880,670
Compensation - Extra Duty$734,439
Longevity Pay-H.Ed$210,552
Compensation - Brd-Com Members$209,684
Retirement Pmts OPERS-Payroll$38,951
Education Loan Reimb Incentive$23,811
Employer Share-FICA$13,280
Pmts-Ret'd HEd Employee-Non-PR$3,056
Signing Incent.Pln Pmts Non DP$2,000
Assistance Payments-$11

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  • Farm program paymentsFarm subsidies

    What the Farm Service Agency paid through the state’s county offices, by program and by recipient. The offices that administered the payments, not a count of farms: a recipient addressed elsewhere is counted where they were paid.

  • Paycheck Protection Program loansPPP loans

    The PPP loans SBA guaranteed to businesses operating in the state, by county, with how many carry a forgiveness amount and how many were charged off. Loans, not businesses: a business with two draws is two loans.

  • Public schoolsSchools

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  • Banks and credit unionsBanks and credit unions

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  • Low-income housingLow-income housing

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  • College athleticsSports

    Every college in the state that reported to the Equity in Athletics survey, ranked by its athletics revenue, with its expenses, athletes and athletic aid.

  • Federal civilian workforceFederal salaries

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  • The Oklahoma Factbook entryAcross the Factbook

    Every measure the Factbook publishes for this state in one place, each with where it ranks among the others and the record it came from.

The immigration hub has no page for this state: EOIR runs no immigration court here, and CBP publishes by sector and field office, which are its own areas of responsibility rather than a geography. Immigration and the border.

Sources

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