Food Batchmakers in Kansas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$34,508
after federal, FICA and Kansas tax
Tax takes
$8,343
19.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,357
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
$42,850
Kept after tax
$34,508
Worth in national money
$38,357
State rank
12
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Kansas is one of the better-paying states for food batchmakers. The middle earner takes $42,850, which ranks 12 of 50 states with published figures. That is about 1.32% above the national middle.
- Measured against other jobs in Kansas, this one sits low: 372 of 488 occupations with published pay, in the bottom quarter.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $42,850 you keep $34,508 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $38,357 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $45,780, since top earners drag the number up.
- Kansas ranks 12 of 50 states publishing a median for food batchmakers, at $42,850 — about 1.32% 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.
- Food batchmakers occupies position 372 of 488 in Kansas's occupational wage distribution, in the bottom quartile. National ranking and local ranking answer different questions and frequently disagree; this is the one a resident experiences.
- Retained pay in Kansas is $34,508 after the full tax stack, from $42,850. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $38,357 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $45,780 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Food Batchmakers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $32,000 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $42,850 |
| Top tenth earn over | $62,350 |
| This salary | $42,850 |
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 | $34,508 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $36,610 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$682 |
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 | $40,233 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$825 |
| 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 $42,850. The published range is $32,000 up to $62,350, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $34,508 take-home in Kansas comes from $42,850. 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 372 of 488.
- Two cautions on $38,357, the adjusted value of that $42,850 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 372 of 488 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for food batchmakers in Kansas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $32,000 to $62,350. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $34,508, from $42,850, 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 372 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 12 of 50 for it.
- This $38,357 adjusted figure, worked from $42,850, 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 372 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 372 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 $45,780, 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 $32,000 at the bottom tenth to $62,350 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $38,357 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, $34,508 remains.
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 50 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $45,780. 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 ($32,000 to $62,350) 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 $38,357 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 $34,508 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.