Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic in Kansas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$37,065
after federal, FICA and Kansas tax
Tax takes
$9,205
19.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$41,199
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
$46,270
Kept after tax
$37,065
Worth in national money
$41,199
State rank
31
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Kansas pays this job a middle wage of $46,270, 31 of 46 states and about 3.04% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Against other work in Kansas, this sits in the middle: 327 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $46,270 you keep $37,065 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $41,199 at national prices. Here the average runs under the middle, at $45,960.
- Kansas's $46,270 median for extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic places it 31 of 46 states, about 3.04% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ranks 327 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.
- Retained pay in Kansas is $37,065 after the full tax stack, from $46,270. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $41,199 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $45,960 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,870 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $46,270 |
| Top tenth earn over | $61,750 |
| This salary | $46,270 |
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 | $37,065 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $39,358 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$697 |
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 | $43,416 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$843 |
| 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 $46,270. The published range is $34,870 up to $61,750, 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 $37,065, worked from $46,270. 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 327 of 488.
- Two cautions on $41,199, the adjusted value of that $46,270 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 327 of 488 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic in Kansas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $34,870 to $61,750. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Kansas take-home of $37,065, on $46,270 for work ranking 327 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 327 of 488 in the state.
- This $41,199 adjusted figure, worked from $46,270, 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 327 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 327 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $34,870 and the top tenth $61,750, so most people doing this work in Kansas sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $41,199 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 $37,065 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 46 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($34,870 to $61,750) 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 $41,199 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 $37,065 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.