Tulsa Per Capita Income Takes Huge Leap

From The Tulsa World ~ The government finds that Tulsa's per-capita personal income has increased rapidly among metropolitan areas. Tulsans got richer last year, like a lot of the nation, but Tulsans were getting richer quicker than most. The Tulsa area's per-capita personal income ranked 66th among all metro areas last year. In 2005, it ranked No. 81. By contrast, Oklahoma City ranks 103rd in the preliminary figures released Tuesday by the U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis. Driven by oil money and better-than-$70-a-barrel oil, Tulsans earned some $33.7 billion in 2006, up from $30.7 billion in 2005.

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