By the BLS count there are 260 advertising sales agents in the Tulsa metro earning a median of $89,820. A look at the job and at Tulsa as a place to sell advertising.
You would be the person local business owners in Tulsa, OK talk to about advertising: prospecting, discovery, the pitch, the close, and the ongoing relationship. Field or remote is your call. The territory is the Tulsa metro; the tools, the collateral and the founders are a message away.
Compensation is 100% commission at a flat 18% of monthly ad spend, recurring for the life of the account while you actively manage it. No base, no hourly, no draw. Protected territory once you sign a deal in it.
If you can prospect, run a conversation and close without a manager watching, and you can carry yourself through the first two or three months of ramp, this seat will reward you. If you need a base salary or assigned leads, it will frustrate you. At $3,000 a month per account, each one is worth $540 a month to you; twenty of them, $10,800 a month, recurring.
Who would you be calling on? 25,565 employer establishments in Tulsa, OK, 24.6 per 1,000 residents, in line with the national figure. The most common prospects by count: restaurants (1,795), physicians' offices (718) and law firms (640). For a rep the home-services slice matters most: 1,383 contractors, 5.4% of local establishments, about the same as the US share. The market is dense with self-storage operators compared with the national mix (1.4 times the share), and dense trades advertise. See the Tulsa, OK market page for the complete table.
There are 260 advertising sales agents in Tulsa, OK; per 1,000 jobs that is 0.6. Concentration matters more than the raw count: a location quotient of 1 puts the occupation at about its national concentration, neither crowded nor empty. Wages: mean $100,040, median $89,820. Nationally the same occupation pays a mean of $80,670 and a median of $64,820, so the Tulsa metro sits 39 percent above the country. The BLS figures are what employers in Tulsa, OK pay for advertising selling as a job. The YelloPost model pays a share of ad spend instead, with no ceiling, so the comparison is between a wage and a book.
| Role | Employment | Mean wage | Median wage | Local median vs US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web developers 15-1254 | 90 | $85,090 | $79,130 | 15 percent below |
| Advertising sales agents 41-3011 | 260 | $100,040 | $89,820 | 39 percent above |
| Market research analysts and marketing specialists 13-1161 | 1,860 | $72,160 | $63,130 | 20 percent below |
| Wholesale and manufacturing sales representatives 41-4012 | 4,420 | $71,930 | $61,840 | 14 percent below |
Tulsa proper counts 413,794 residents with a median household income of $59,838, 14 percent below the metro as a whole. Homes carry a median value of $205,300 (7 percent below the metro figure) and 51.9% are owner-occupied. A labor force of 209,110 carries 12,736 unemployed, an unemployment rate of 6.1%. Median age: 35.6. Tulsa holds 39.9% of the metro's 1.04 million residents. A four-year degree or more: 91,714 adults, 33.6% of the adult population. Of 172,909 households, 89,772 are owners and 83,137 are renters. See also: Tulsa, OK and Oklahoma.
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, metropolitan area Tulsa, OK (SOC 41-3011, 13-1161, 15-1254, 41-4012). US Census Bureau ACS 2024 5-year estimates for Tulsa city and the Tulsa 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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