Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors in Kansas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$75,631
after federal, FICA and Kansas tax
Tax takes
$27,059
26.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$84,067
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
$102,690
Kept after tax
$75,631
Worth in national money
$84,067
State rank
31
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Kansas pays this job a middle wage of $102,690, 31 of 45 states and about 10.83% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Kansas. It ranks 44 out of 488 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $102,690 you keep $75,631 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $84,067 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $107,100, since top earners drag the number up.
- Kansas's $102,690 median for health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors places it 31 of 45 states, about 10.83% 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.
- Within Kansas, health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors ranks 44 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.
- Retained pay in Kansas is $75,631 after the full tax stack, from $102,690. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $84,067 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $107,100 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $81,440 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $102,690 |
| Top tenth earn over | $137,320 |
| This salary | $102,690 |
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 | $75,631 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $81,072 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$638 |
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 | $94,955 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$881 |
| 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 $102,690. The published range is $81,440 up to $137,320, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Kansas the take-home figure of $75,631, from $102,690, 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 44 of 488 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $84,067 uses one figure for the whole of Kansas. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 488 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 44.
- Reported values are medians; for health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors in Kansas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $81,440 to $137,320. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Kansas is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $75,631 from $102,690. 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 44 of 488 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $84,067, worked from $102,690, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Kansas address, on work sitting at 44 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 $107,100 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $81,440 and the top tenth $137,320, so most people doing this work in Kansas sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $84,067 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 $75,631 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 45 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 $107,100. 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 ($81,440 to $137,320) 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 $84,067 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 $75,631 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.