Medical Equipment Repairers in Kansas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$36,265
after federal, FICA and Kansas tax
Tax takes
$8,935
19.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$40,310
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
$45,200
Kept after tax
$36,265
Worth in national money
$40,310
State rank
48
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Kansas pays medical equipment repairers a middle wage of $45,200, 48 of 51 states and about 26.69% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Against other work in Kansas, this sits in the middle: 348 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 $45,200 you keep $36,265 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $40,310 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $52,060, since top earners drag the number up.
- Kansas's $45,200 median for medical equipment repairers places it 48 of 51 states, about 26.69% 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.
- Medical equipment repairers ranks 348 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 $36,265 after the full tax stack, from $45,200. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $40,310 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $52,060 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Medical Equipment Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,160 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $45,200 |
| Top tenth earn over | $73,890 |
| This salary | $45,200 |
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 | $36,265 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $38,498 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$692 |
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 | $42,420 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$837 |
| 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 $45,200. The published range is $36,160 up to $73,890, 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 $36,265, worked from $45,200. 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 348 of 488.
- One number stands for prices across all of Kansas, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $40,310, the adjusted value of that $45,200 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 348 of 488 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for medical equipment repairers in Kansas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $36,160 to $73,890. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Kansas take-home of $36,265, on $45,200 for work ranking 348 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 348 of 488 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Kansas, so $40,310 — the adjusted value of that $45,200 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 348 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 $52,060 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $36,160, the highest tenth $73,890, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $40,310 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, $36,265 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 $52,060. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($36,160) and the ninetieth ($73,890) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
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 $40,310 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 $36,265 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.