Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in Kansas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,414
after federal, FICA and Kansas tax
Tax takes
$10,336
20.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$44,922
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
$50,750
Kept after tax
$40,414
Worth in national money
$44,922
State rank
16
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Kansas is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $50,750, which ranks 16 of 49 states with published figures. That is about 3.59% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Kansas, this sits in the middle: 272 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Kansas does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $50,750 you keep $40,414, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $44,922 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $53,490, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Kansas ranks 16 of 49 states publishing a median for mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders, at $50,750 — about 3.59% 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.
- Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders ranks 272 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.
- After federal, FICA and Kansas income tax, retained pay for mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders on $50,750 is $40,414. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $44,922 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 $53,490 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,700 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $50,750 |
| Top tenth earn over | $70,660 |
| This salary | $50,750 |
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 | $40,414 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $42,958 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$716 |
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 | $47,585 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$866 |
| 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 mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders in Kansas earn under $50,750 and half over. The published range runs $36,700 at the tenth percentile to $70,660 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $40,414 take-home in Kansas comes from $50,750. 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 272 of 488.
- One number stands for prices across all of Kansas, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $44,922, the adjusted value of that $50,750 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 272 of 488 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders in Kansas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $36,700 to $70,660; 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 $40,414, from $50,750, 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 272 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 16 of 49 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Kansas, so $44,922 — the adjusted value of that $50,750 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 272 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 $53,490, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $36,700 and the top tenth $70,660, so most people doing this work in Kansas sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $44,922.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Kansas then takes its own share, leaving $40,414.
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 49 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 $53,490. 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 ($36,700 to $70,660) 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 $44,922 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 $40,414 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.