Tulsa, OK Will Pay You to Move There

The American dream has evolved in 2025. A home and kids are nice, sure, but the 90s emergence of DINK's (dual-income, no-kid couples) has taken a commanding lead in modern America. Since homebuying is rumored to be dead among Millennials and Zoomers, Tulsa is doing what it can to attract new taxpayers, by paying them to move there.

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Specifically, Tulsa is recruiting skilled workers with remote jobs to relocate for which they'll pay you $10,000.

Unless you come from a state that doesn't have income taxes, it's probably a really attractive offer if you qualify.

What's so good about Tulsa?

Like we do with everything in life, most Oklahomans prefer one big city over the other. If I asked you which you preferred, would you opt for OKC or T-Town as the "best city in the state?"

OKC is a sprawling metropolis offering something to do 20 hours a day, and Tulsa is... Well, what is Tulsa?

I grew up in an OKC household. As an adult who lives close to OKC, my household is an OKC household too. Mostly because of geography, but there's a little part of me that hates driving through Tulsa too. The endless massive road projects are more pain and less progress... but with family there, and the best sporting clay course I've ever walked, I get up there from time to time.

Less Oklahoma, More Trendy.

Politics exists in every facet of life these days, so let's lay it out. If you asked locals, Tulsa isn't Oklahoma. It's a progressive island in a sea of conservative oppression.

It's the Sooner State's blue spot, or at least it appears that was from the outside looking in.

Tulsa is the ideal place every progressive-thinking young adult full of ideas pictures as a stepping stone to Chicago or New York. Well, that's the description you get from people who've never spent time there. In reality, it's a massive refinery town that voted the other way by a "yuge" margin.

That out of the way, as much as I hate to admit it, Tulsa is a cool town with unbelievably nice suburbs that spend way too much on high school football.

What's the Catch?

If you want to move to Tulsa and let the city provide you with a $10,000 cushion, you have to meet certain conditions. First and foremost, you can't currently be an Oklahoman.

The rest is pretty standard. Must be at least 18, legal to work in the US, and already have a remote full-time job.

As we've watched the rise and fall of remote work, odds are anyone who meets these criteria would be a shoo-in.

Free Money Isn't Free.

If you qualify and it may seem too good to be true, it might be. Like I said, if you already live in a state without income tax, you'd have to start paying that. All the same, Oklahoma's income tax is on the bottom half of the tax-rate spectrum.

Additionally, Tulsa has what is considered a great higher education program called Tulsa Achieves, which is a scholarship for Tulsa students to attend Tulsa Community College for free, subsidized by higher property taxes.

Aside from attracting a more diverse population of professionals to the original Oil Capital of the World, it's about growing Tulsa. More people = more taxes = more programs = stepping out from the shadow of OKC...eventually.

They're gonna need a few more decades, but this shows Tulsa will do what it must.

You in? Here are the details.