OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – A new study highlighting the Oklahoma City metro area says Oklahoma workers’ paychecks are lagging behind inflation.
The study, by intelligent motor control experts Energy Drive, says that the Oklahoma City metro had the ninth-largest decrease in real annual pay between 2020 and 2025 among large metro areas in America.
Jake Maruschok, Energy Engineer at Energy Drive, says, “These figures actually underestimate the squeeze for some workers, too, since CPI inflation is a national average. This means some people will have experienced even larger squeezes than the numbers suggest, depending on their individual spending patterns and their local economy…