Correctional Officers and Jailers in Kansas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$44,429
after federal, FICA and Kansas tax
Tax takes
$11,691
20.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$49,385
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
$56,120
Kept after tax
$44,429
Worth in national money
$49,385
State rank
23
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Kansas pays this job around $56,120 at the midpoint, 23 of 49 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Kansas, this sits in the middle: 245 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Kansas does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $56,120 you keep $44,429, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $49,385 would elsewhere. The average is lower, $53,770, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- For correctional officers and jailers the Kansas median is $56,120, ranking 23 of 49 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Correctional officers and jailers ranks 245 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.
- After federal, FICA and Kansas income tax, retained pay for correctional officers and jailers on $56,120 is $44,429. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $49,385 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $53,770 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Correctional Officers and Jailers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,000 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $56,120 |
| Top tenth earn over | $64,940 |
| This salary | $56,120 |
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 | $44,429 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $47,272 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$739 |
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 | $52,582 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$893 |
| 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 $56,120. The published range is $37,000 up to $64,940, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Kansas's $44,429, worked from $56,120. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 245 of 488.
- One number stands for prices across all of Kansas, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $49,385, the adjusted value of that $56,120 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 245 of 488 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for correctional officers and jailers in Kansas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $37,000 to $64,940. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Kansas take-home of $44,429, on $56,120 for work ranking 245 of 488 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 245 of 488 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Kansas, so $49,385 — the adjusted value of that $56,120 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 245 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $53,770, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $37,000 at the bottom tenth to $64,940 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $49,385 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 $44,429 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 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 $53,770. 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 ($37,000 to $64,940) 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 $49,385 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 $44,429 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.