{"id":150177,"date":"2026-04-29T17:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/?p=150177"},"modified":"2026-04-29T18:05:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T18:05:58","slug":"downward-oklahoma-job-revisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/downward-oklahoma-job-revisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Downward Oklahoma Job Revisions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I haven&#8217;t seen much discussion about the <strong>downward revisions <\/strong>to Oklahoma job data released earlier this month. We knew some weakness was coming, but the size of it was a surprise. The March CES benchmark revisions for Dec 2025 weighed on most states but hit Oklahoma <strong>harder than expected<\/strong> &#8211; down 21,700 jobs (-1.2%), nearly double the national revision of -0.7%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few things that stood out: the revision was heavily concentrated in private services (-1.8%), while goods-producing jobs held up far better (-0.6%). Metro areas took the biggest hits &#8211; OKC and Tulsa together accounted for most of the statewide drop. This suggests that rural Oklahoma may have been a bit more resilient. Government employment was actually revised up slightly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/CES-OK-Jan26-Benchmark-Changes.xlsx\" title=\"\">detailed spreadsheet of the revisions<\/a> for the state and metro areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"780\" src=\"https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/26BenchRevOK-1024x780.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-150181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/26BenchRevOK-1024x780.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/26BenchRevOK-300x229.png 300w, https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/26BenchRevOK-768x585.png 768w, https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/26BenchRevOK-1536x1170.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/26BenchRevOK-2048x1560.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t seen much discussion about the downward revisions to Oklahoma job data released earlier this month. We knew some weakness was coming, but the size of it was a surprise. The March CES benchmark revisions for Dec 2025 weighed on most states but hit Oklahoma harder than expected &#8211; down 21,700 jobs (-1.2%), nearly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,1],"tags":[43,59,73],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-150177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-pic-of-the-week","category-uncategorized","tag-employment","tag-in-the-news","tag-oklahoma","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/26BenchRevOK-scaled.png",2560,1950,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/26BenchRevOK-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/26BenchRevOK-300x229.png",300,229,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/26BenchRevOK-768x585.png",768,585,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/26BenchRevOK-1024x780.png",980,746,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/26BenchRevOK-1536x1170.png",1536,1170,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/26BenchRevOK-2048x1560.png",2048,1560,true],"lightbox":["https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/26BenchRevOK-scaled.png",2560,1950,false],"search_results":["https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/26BenchRevOK-scaled.png",125,95,false],"blog_entry":["https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/26BenchRevOK-scaled-250x150.png",250,150,true],"blog_post":["https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/26BenchRevOK-scaled.png",2560,1950,false],"blog_post_full":["https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/26BenchRevOK-scaled.png",2560,1950,false],"blog_related":["https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/26BenchRevOK-scaled.png",2560,1950,false],"portfolio_entry":["https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/26BenchRevOK-scaled.png",2560,1950,false],"portfolio_post":["https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/26BenchRevOK-scaled.png",2560,1950,false],"portfolio_related":["https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/26BenchRevOK-scaled.png",2560,1950,false],"staff_entry":["https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/26BenchRevOK-scaled.png",2560,1950,false],"staff_post":["https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/26BenchRevOK-scaled.png",2560,1950,false],"staff_related":["https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/26BenchRevOK-scaled.png",2560,1950,false],"testimonials_entry":["https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/26BenchRevOK-scaled.png",2560,1950,false],"testimonials_post":["https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/26BenchRevOK-scaled.png",2560,1950,false],"gallery":["https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/26BenchRevOK-scaled.png",2560,1950,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"mcsnead","author_link":"https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/author\/mcsnead\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"I haven&#8217;t seen much discussion about the downward revisions to Oklahoma job data released earlier this month. We knew some weakness was coming, but the size of it was a surprise. The March CES benchmark revisions for Dec 2025 weighed on most states but hit Oklahoma harder than expected &#8211; down 21,700 jobs (-1.2%), nearly&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150177"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150185,"href":"https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150177\/revisions\/150185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150177"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=150177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}