Compliance Officers in Kansas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$54,289
after federal, FICA and Kansas tax
Tax takes
$15,451
22.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$60,345
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
$69,740
Kept after tax
$54,289
Worth in national money
$60,345
State rank
41
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Kansas is among the lower-paying states for compliance officers. The middle earner takes $69,740, ranking 41 of 51 states — about 13.61% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Against other work in Kansas, this sits in the middle: 139 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Kansas is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $69,740 the take-home is $54,289; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $60,345 would nationally. The average comes to $76,420, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Kansas ranks 41 of 51 for compliance officers, with a median of $69,740 — about 13.61% 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.
- Compliance officers ranks 139 of 488 occupations in Kansas by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Post-tax income for compliance officers in Kansas, on $69,740, is $54,289 — equivalent to $60,345 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $76,420 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Compliance Officers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $42,620 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $69,740 |
| Top tenth earn over | $121,370 |
| This salary | $69,740 |
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 | $54,289 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $57,892 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$770 |
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 | $64,853 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,063 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $69,740 as a midpoint for Kansas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $42,620 and the ninetieth is $121,370 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Kansas the take-home figure of $54,289, from $69,740, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 139 of 488 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $60,345, the adjusted value of that $69,740 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 139 of 488 locally.
- The Kansas median of $69,740 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $42,620 to $121,370. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Kansas is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $54,289 from $69,740. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 139 of 488 locally.
- This $60,345 adjusted figure, worked from $69,740, 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 139 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 139 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 $76,420 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $42,620, the highest tenth $121,370, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Kansas sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $60,345 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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, $54,289 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 $76,420. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($42,620) and the ninetieth ($121,370) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
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 $60,345 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 $54,289 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.