The 2025 Greater Oklahoma City Outlook released by the Greater Oklahoma Chamber of Commerce forecasts a positive Oklahoma City metro nonfarm job growth for 2025. The report predicts the baseline job forecast scenario growing by 2.5% or adding nearly 18,200 jobs.
“So far, through the first four months of the year (January-April,) Oklahoma City is tracking at a slightly slower pace of 1.2% growth over the same time last year,” said Eric Long, research economist for the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber. “While this is still a strong growth number, national conditions have temporarily dampened economic activity.”
For 2025, the Economic Outlook Report said the largest expected jobs gains are expected in other services (5.1%), education and healthcare (5.0%), construction (4.3%), mining/oil and gas (4.1%), leisure & hospitality (2.5%), trade, transportation, & utilities (2.2%), government (1.4%), information (1.1%), finance (0.9%), professional and business services (0.8%), and manufacturing (0.7%)…