BIOTECH Ground-breaking discoveries made by Oklahoma City-based researchers have helped put Oklahoma City on the map as a contender in the bioscience and technology marketplace. Greater Oklahoma City’s broader bioscience companies (including Healthcare) boast a Gross Regional Product of $5.7 billion, employ nearly 40,000 workers with total earnings of $4.1 billion. Undeniably, one of the most significant factors in this area’s biotech boom is the powerful symbiotic relationship between entrepreneurs, clinical researchers, academic investigators, and public and private investors. In 2022, the region was awarded $35 million as part of the Build Back Better Regional Grant challenge to further develop this cluster. Exciting progress continues in Oklahoma City’s Innovation District with the opening of Convergence, a transformative public-private, mixed-use development located at NE Eighth Street and Stiles. The development features a 230,000-square-foot, eight-story office
building—including 50,000 square feet of state-of-the- art research lab space—designed to foster collaboration between researchers, entrepreneurs, and private industry. Convergence also includes community gathering spaces, a coffee shop, and access to the nearby Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OU Health, and other major bioscience institutions. The project represents a significant investment in Oklahoma City’s growing biotech ecosystem and serves as a physical and strategic anchor for future development in the Innovation District. BISNOW recently ranked Oklahoma City as one of five emerging hubs for life science development. Learn more at www.greateroklahomacity.com/bio .
Biotech Occupations Software Developers
Jobs in Greater OKC Median Hourly Earnings
4,061
$51.43 $28.84 $39.86 $37.91 $38.12 $38.35 $20.86 $27.91 $26.43 $38.91 $19.53 $18.48 $21.53 $21.36
Calibration Technologists and Technicians
56
Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other
560
Microbiologists
75
Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists
499 241 281 184
Chemists
Biological Technicians Chemical Technicians
Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians
2,490
Diagnostic Medical Sonographers
553 988
Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders
4,268
261 359
Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Ten- ders Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders
2,171 1,090
$23.28
$17.11
Source: BLS, Occupational Employment Statistics via Lightcast, 2025.2
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