Maintenance and Repair Workers, General in Kansas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$37,767
after federal, FICA and Kansas tax
Tax takes
$9,443
20.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$41,980
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
$47,210
Kept after tax
$37,767
Worth in national money
$41,980
State rank
40
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Kansas pays this job a middle wage of $47,210, 40 of 51 states and about 4.8% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 488 occupations Kansas reports figures for, this is number 313.
- Here is where Kansas does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $47,210 you keep $37,767, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $41,980 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $49,330, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Kansas's $47,210 median for maintenance and repair workers, general places it 40 of 51 states, about 4.8% 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.
- In Kansas's occupational distribution, maintenance and repair workers, general sits at 313 of 488 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- After federal, FICA and Kansas income tax, retained pay for maintenance and repair workers, general on $47,210 is $37,767. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $41,980 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $49,330 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Maintenance and Repair Workers, General
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,570 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,210 |
| Top tenth earn over | $66,830 |
| This salary | $47,210 |
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 | $37,767 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $40,113 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$701 |
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 | $44,291 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$848 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of maintenance and repair workers, general in Kansas earn under $47,210 and half over. The published range runs $33,570 at the tenth percentile to $66,830 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $37,767 take-home in Kansas comes from $47,210. 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 313 of 488.
- Two cautions on $41,980, the adjusted value of that $47,210 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 313 of 488 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for maintenance and repair workers, general in Kansas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $33,570 to $66,830; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $37,767, from $47,210, 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 313 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 40 of 51 for it.
- This $41,980 adjusted figure, worked from $47,210, 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 313 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 313 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 $49,330 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $33,570 at the tenth percentile, $66,830 at the ninetieth.
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 $41,980 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 $37,767 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 $49,330. 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 ($33,570 to $66,830) 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 $41,980 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 $37,767 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.