Brickmasons and Blockmasons in Kansas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$46,747
after federal, FICA and Kansas tax
Tax takes
$12,473
21.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$51,962
Kansas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Kansas — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$59,220
Kept after tax
$46,747
Worth in national money
$51,962
State rank
34
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Kansas is among the lower-paying states for brickmasons and blockmasons. The middle earner takes $59,220, ranking 34 of 50 states — about 4.67% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Brickmasons and blockmasons ranks 219 among 488 occupations Kansas publishes pay for.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $59,220 you keep $46,747 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $51,962 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $61,760, since top earners drag the number up.
- Kansas ranks 34 of 50 for brickmasons and blockmasons, with a median of $59,220 — about 4.67% below the national figure. A nominal shortfall is not by itself a real one: lower-paying states frequently carry lower tax and lower price levels, and the adjusted figures below are where that is settled rather than assumed.
- Position 219 of 488 in Kansas places brickmasons and blockmasons in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Retained pay in Kansas is $46,747 after the full tax stack, from $59,220. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $51,962 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $61,760 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Brickmasons and Blockmasons
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $40,930 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $59,220 |
| Top tenth earn over | $82,080 |
| This salary | $59,220 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Kansas | $46,747 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $49,763 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$752 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $55,467 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$909 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Kansas earn less than $59,220. The published range is $40,930 up to $82,080, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $46,747 take-home in Kansas comes from $59,220. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 219 of 488.
- Two cautions on $51,962, the adjusted value of that $59,220 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Kansas. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 219 of 488 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for brickmasons and blockmasons in Kansas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $40,930 to $82,080. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $46,747, from $59,220, assumes a single Kansas filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 219 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 34 of 50 for it.
- This $51,962 adjusted figure, worked from $59,220, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 219 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 219 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $61,760 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $40,930 and the top tenth $82,080, so most people doing this work in Kansas sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Kansas is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $51,962 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Kansas adds its own income tax on top — which is why $46,747 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Kansas is $61,760. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($40,930 to $82,080) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Kansas rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Kansas's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $51,962 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $46,747 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Kansas income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.