the Oklahoma City metro employs 250 advertising sales agents at a median of $49,920 a year, per the BLS. Read on for the seat itself, the residual pay model, and the shape of the local business base.
The concentration figure is the useful one: a location quotient of 0.6 means the occupation is thinner here than in the US workforce, which usually means many local businesses have never had a dedicated advertising rep. Advertising sales agents number 250 in Oklahoma City, OK, which is 0.4 of every 1,000 jobs here. Wages: mean $60,540, median $49,920. Nationally the same occupation pays a mean of $80,670 and a median of $64,820, so the Oklahoma City metro sits 23 percent below the country. Keep in mind what the BLS is measuring: mostly salaried media and agency sellers. The residual model here has no cap, so those figures describe the local going rate for the skill rather than what a book of accounts can pay.
| Occupation (SOC) | Jobs | Mean annual | Median annual | vs US median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advertising sales agents 41-3011 | 250 | $60,540 | $49,920 | 23 percent below |
| Market research analysts and marketing specialists 13-1161 | 3,130 | $71,010 | $63,160 | 20 percent below |
| Web developers 15-1254 | 200 | $83,940 | $82,490 | 11 percent below |
| Wholesale and manufacturing sales representatives 41-4012 | 5,700 | $77,570 | $63,920 | 11 percent below |
Work it from Oklahoma City or from anywhere else. The territory is what is protected, not the chair. In practice the role is a pipeline: businesses in the Oklahoma City metro that advertise or should, outreach with real context, a discovery call, a plan, a signature, and then a relationship you maintain.
Pay is a flat 18% recurring commission on every dollar of ad spend your accounts run, every month, for as long as they keep running it and you keep the relationship in good standing. There is no base salary, no hourly and no draw; it is a 1099 role.
This is for people who would rather own their accounts than rent them: self-starters, reps from the local-advertising world, side-business owners with a network. It is not for anyone who wants a salary, a draw or a lead list. The arithmetic: a $3,000-a-month account pays you $540 a month for as long as it runs; twenty such accounts pay $10,800 a month.
The territory holds 37,835 employer businesses, 25.9 per 1,000 residents, 4 percent above the national figure. The most common prospects by count: restaurants (2,756), law firms (1,257) and physicians' offices (1,200). Contractors in the home-services trades total 2,070, or 5.5% of the base, about the same as the US share. Roofing contractors are unusually common here, 2 times their national share; crowded trades are where a well-run campaign is easiest to sell. The full trade-by-trade table for the metro is on the Oklahoma City, OK market page.
Oklahoma City proper counts 697,125 residents with a median household income of $68,656, 5 percent below the metro as a whole. Homes carry a median value of $231,300 (about the same as the metro figure) and 58.6% are owner-occupied. That is 47.6% of the 1.46 million people in the metro. Of 360,843 people in the labor force, 16,781 are unemployed, a rate of 4.7%. Among adults 25 and over, 159,252 (34.7%) finished a bachelor's degree or higher. Median age: 35.1. Of 280,065 households, 163,985 are owners and 116,080 are renters. More on the market on the Oklahoma City, OK page and the Oklahoma page.
Sources: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, metropolitan area Oklahoma City, OK (SOC 41-3011, 13-1161, 15-1254, 41-4012); US Census Bureau ACS 2024 5-year estimates for Oklahoma City city and the Oklahoma City metro; County Business Patterns 2023. National comparisons use the same BLS and Census series. Pay terms for the YelloPost role are YelloPost's own.
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