{"id":3783,"date":"2012-01-20T12:22:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T18:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=3783"},"modified":"2012-12-20T10:09:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T16:09:45","slug":"for-oklahoma-companies-on-fortunes-best-list-its-not-just-about-big-salaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/01\/20\/for-oklahoma-companies-on-fortunes-best-list-its-not-just-about-big-salaries\/","title":{"rendered":"For Oklahoma Companies on Fortune\u2019s \u2018Best\u2019 List, It\u2019s Not Just About Big Salaries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Four Oklahoma Companies made Fortune<\/em>\u2019s annual “100 Best Companies to Work for” list<\/a>.<\/p>

What do Chesapeake Energy, Devon Energy, American Fidelity Assurance and QuikTrip have in common? Not surprisingly: great pay and cool perks.<\/p>

But there\u2019s something else at work here. And it\u2019s not just super-sized salaries, corporate campus coffee shops or on-site dry cleaners.<\/p>

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The annual pay for the most-common salaried jobs at Oklahoma\u2019s Fortune<\/em> four are big, ranging from the $178,305 per-year average for an engineer at Devon, to $69,383 for a store manager at QuikTrip.<\/p>

But the great pay isn\u2019t just limited to the salaried set: Hourly<\/em> employees of Oklahoma\u2019s Fortune <\/em>four make great money, too.<\/p>

For example, the most-common hourly job at Oklahoma City-based American Fidelity Assurance is a customer service representative, according to Fortune<\/em>. The typical, time card-punching customer service worker there takes home $44,135 a year \u2014 that\u2019s 18 percent higher than what the average Oklahoman took home last year.<\/p>

The average annual wage in Oklahoma was $37,246 in 2011, according to<\/a> the state Employment Security Commission. Here\u2019s how Oklahoma\u2019s Fortune <\/em>four compare when it comes to their non-salaried employees.<\/p>\n

Annual Wages: “Best” Oklahoma companies vs. average<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
COMPANY<\/th>\nMOST-COMMON HOURLY JOB<\/th>\nANNUAL WAGE<\/th>\n% HIGHER THAN AVG.<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Chesapeake Energy<\/td>\nLease Operator<\/td>\n$77,675<\/td>\n109%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Devon Energy<\/td>\nFloorman<\/td>\n$58,633<\/td>\n57%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
QuikTrip<\/td>\nRelief Assistant<\/td>\n$44,300<\/td>\n19%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
American Fidelity Assurance<\/td>\nCustomer Service<\/td>\n$44,135<\/td>\n18%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>

Average annual wage in Oklahoma for 2011: $37,246<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Four Oklahoma Companies made Fortune\u2019s annual “100 Best Companies to Work for” list.What do Chesapeake Energy, Devon Energy, American Fidelity Assurance and QuikTrip have in common? Not surprisingly: great pay and cool perks.But there\u2019s something else at work here. And it\u2019s not just super-sized salaries, corporate campus coffee shops or on-site dry cleaners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[492,301,15],"tags":[275,288,238,289],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3783"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12129,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783\/revisions\/12129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}