Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers in Kansas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$74,938
after federal, FICA and Kansas tax
Tax takes
$26,682
26.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$83,297
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
$101,620
Kept after tax
$74,938
Worth in national money
$83,297
State rank
23
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Kansas pays this job around $101,620 at the midpoint, 23 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Kansas. It ranks 47 out of 488 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Kansas is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $101,620 the take-home is $74,938; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $83,297 would nationally. The average lands at $92,150, below the middle of the range.
- For electrical power-line installers and repairers the Kansas median is $101,620, ranking 23 of 51 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.
- Within Kansas, electrical power-line installers and repairers ranks 47 of 488 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Post-tax income for electrical power-line installers and repairers in Kansas, on $101,620, is $74,938 — equivalent to $83,297 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 $92,150 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $50,510 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $101,620 |
| Top tenth earn over | $122,970 |
| This salary | $101,620 |
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 | $74,938 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $80,320 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$642 |
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 | $93,970 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$887 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $101,620 as a midpoint for Kansas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $50,510 and the ninetieth is $122,970 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Kansas's $74,938, worked from $101,620. 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 47 of 488.
- Two cautions on $83,297, the adjusted value of that $101,620 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 47 of 488 locally.
- The Kansas median of $101,620 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $50,510 to $122,970. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Kansas take-home of $74,938, on $101,620 for work ranking 47 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 47 of 488 in the state.
- This $83,297 adjusted figure, worked from $101,620, 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 47 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 47 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 $92,150, 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 $50,510 at the bottom tenth to $122,970 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 $83,297 in national terms.
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 $74,938.
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 $92,150. 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 ($50,510 to $122,970) 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 $83,297 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 $74,938 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.