Carpet Installers in Kansas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$45,775
after federal, FICA and Kansas tax
Tax takes
$12,145
21.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$50,881
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
$57,920
Kept after tax
$45,775
Worth in national money
$50,881
State rank
10
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Kansas is one of the better-paying states for carpet installers. The middle earner takes $57,920, which ranks 10 of 45 states with published figures. That is about 15.06% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Carpet installers ranks 231 among 488 occupations Kansas publishes pay for.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $57,920 you keep $45,775 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $50,881 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $61,430, since top earners drag the number up.
- Kansas ranks 10 of 45 states publishing a median for carpet installers, at $57,920 — about 15.06% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Position 231 of 488 in Kansas places carpet installers 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 $45,775 after the full tax stack, from $57,920. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $50,881 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $61,430 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Carpet Installers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $50,390 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $57,920 |
| Top tenth earn over | $81,110 |
| This salary | $57,920 |
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 | $45,775 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,719 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$746 |
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 | $54,257 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$903 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $57,920 as a midpoint for Kansas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $50,390 and the ninetieth is $81,110 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $45,775 take-home in Kansas comes from $57,920. 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 231 of 488.
- Two cautions on $50,881, the adjusted value of that $57,920 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 231 of 488 locally.
- The Kansas median of $57,920 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $50,390 to $81,110. 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 $45,775, from $57,920, 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 231 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 10 of 45 for it.
- This $50,881 adjusted figure, worked from $57,920, 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 231 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 231 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 $61,430, 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?
The range here is narrow. From $50,390 at the bottom tenth to $81,110 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $50,881.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Kansas's own levy, $45,775 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 45 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 $61,430. 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 ($50,390 to $81,110) 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 $50,881 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 $45,775 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.