Butchers and Meat Cutters in Kansas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$30,373
after federal, FICA and Kansas tax
Tax takes
$6,947
18.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$33,761
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
$37,320
Kept after tax
$30,373
Worth in national money
$33,761
State rank
42
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for butchers and meat cutters is on the low side in Kansas. The middle earner gets $37,320. That is 42 of 51 states, and about 7.03% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 488 occupations Kansas publishes, butchers and meat cutters lands at 418. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $37,320 you keep $30,373 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $33,761 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $39,320, since top earners drag the number up.
- For butchers and meat cutters, Kansas sits in the lower band at $37,320, ranking 42 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 7.03%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Kansas, this work ranks 418 of 488 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Retained pay in Kansas is $30,373 after the full tax stack, from $37,320. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $33,761 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $39,320 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Butchers and Meat Cutters
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $28,330 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $37,320 |
| Top tenth earn over | $52,800 |
| This salary | $37,320 |
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 | $30,373 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $32,167 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$659 |
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 | $35,087 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$797 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $37,320 as a midpoint for Kansas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $28,330 and the ninetieth is $52,800 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $30,373 take-home in Kansas comes from $37,320. 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 418 of 488.
- Two cautions on $33,761, the adjusted value of that $37,320 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 418 of 488 locally.
- The Kansas median of $37,320 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $28,330 to $52,800. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $30,373, from $37,320, 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 418 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 42 of 51 for it.
- This $33,761 adjusted figure, worked from $37,320, 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 418 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 418 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $39,320, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $28,330 at the tenth percentile, $52,800 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $33,761.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Kansas then takes its own share, leaving $30,373.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like 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 $39,320. 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 ($28,330 to $52,800) 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 $33,761 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 $30,373 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.