Tulsa, OK
Hand-reviewed metroCost of living in Tulsa: $2,561 leftover
Cost of living in Tulsa, as leftover, is $2,561 a month for one adult, renting a 1-bedroom on local pay — take-home after tax minus rent of $967 and the rest of the modelled month. A price index would say non-housing costs run 11% below the US average. Oklahoma taxes wage income on a bracket schedule. Tulsa is a hand-reviewed metro.
These figures start from one adult in a one-bedroom, on local pay of about $98,500. Change the job, the pay, or how many bedrooms you need, and leftover changes. This is a monthly budget, not a cost-of-living index.
The month, in dollars
Take-home is $5,355 after tax. These lines are the modelled bills, then what is left. The monthly costs page is the same household inside the city hub.
| Rent | $967 |
|---|---|
| Groceries | $356 |
| Transport | $536 |
| Healthcare | $401 |
| Utilities | $223 |
| Childcare | $0 |
| Everything else | $312 |
| Total costs | $2,794 |
| Leftover | $2,561 |
Sales tax is about 9.0%. Property tax is modelled at 0.99% of a $204,400 median home. Non-housing lines scale a national baseline by this metro's cost index (0.89).
Asking rent by bedroom
Turnover asking rent in Tulsa, not the Census median of occupied stock. Rent versus buying.
Studio
$829
1 bedroom
$967
2 bedrooms
$1,151
3 bedrooms
$1,508
4 bedrooms
$1,784
Leftover in other metros nearby
Same household. Each leftover is take-home after that metro's tax minus its rent.
- $2,548 leftover
- Cost of living in Lawton$2,313 leftover
Tulsa vs Lawton · $811 rent
- Cost of living in Enid$2,361 leftover
Tulsa vs Enid · $815 rent
Leftover is take-home after federal, state and city wage tax, minus asking rent at the bedroom count you set, minus a modelled month of groceries, utilities, healthcare, transport and childcare. It is not a cost-of-living index and not a moving quote. Change the job, remote versus local pay, or bedrooms and the ranking is a different city. How the math works · Leftover vs a COL index · Why a cheaper COL% can still lose leftover.
Cost of living in Tulsa
What is the cost of living in Tulsa?
On the default one-adult, one-bedroom household, leftover in Tulsa, OK is about $2,561 a month after tax and rent. Asking rent is about $967 for a one-bedroom and $1,151 for a two-bedroom. That is a budget, not a cost-of-living index.
How does Tulsa compare with a cost-of-living index?
A price index would say non-housing costs run 11% below the US average. Leftover still depends on your tax bill and bedroom count, which an index does not. Tulsa is a hand-reviewed metro.
Where is take-home pay in Tulsa calculated?
The take-home page for Tulsa splits federal, payroll, state and local wage tax, then subtracts rent. The city paycheck page is the same leftover math with the map.
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