Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service in Kansas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$29,401
after federal, FICA and Kansas tax
Tax takes
$6,619
18.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$32,680
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
$36,020
Kept after tax
$29,401
Worth in national money
$32,680
State rank
44
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Kansas. The middle earner gets $36,020. That is 44 of 50 states, and about 8.3% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 488 occupations Kansas publishes, this job lands at 432. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $36,020 you keep $29,401 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $32,680 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $36,530, since top earners drag the number up.
- For mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service, Kansas sits in the lower band at $36,020, ranking 44 of 50 and trailing the national median by about 8.3%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Kansas, this work ranks 432 of 488 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Retained pay in Kansas is $29,401 after the full tax stack, from $36,020. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $32,680 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $36,530 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $28,540 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $36,020 |
| Top tenth earn over | $45,380 |
| This salary | $36,020 |
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 | $29,401 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $31,122 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$653 |
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 | $33,878 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$790 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $36,020 as a midpoint for Kansas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $28,540 and the ninetieth is $45,380 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $29,401 take-home in Kansas comes from $36,020. 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 432 of 488.
- Two cautions on $32,680, the adjusted value of that $36,020 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 432 of 488 locally.
- The Kansas median of $36,020 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $28,540 to $45,380. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $29,401, from $36,020, 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 432 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 44 of 50 for it.
- This $32,680 adjusted figure, worked from $36,020, 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 432 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 432 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $28,540 and the top tenth $45,380, 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 $32,680 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 $29,401 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 50 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 ($28,540 to $45,380) 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 $32,680 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 $29,401 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.