Sales Managers in Kansas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$111,980
after federal, FICA and Kansas tax
Tax takes
$48,010
30.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$124,471
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
$159,990
Kept after tax
$111,980
Worth in national money
$124,471
State rank
8
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for sales managers is strong here. Kansas's middle earner gets $159,990, putting the state 8 of 50 — about 7.9% ahead of the national figure.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 488 occupations Kansas reports, sales managers comes in at 7 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $159,990 you keep $111,980 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $124,471 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $168,320, since top earners drag the number up.
- For sales managers, Kansas sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $159,990, ranking 8 of 50 and running about 7.9% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Sales managers ranks 7 of 488 occupations by median in Kansas, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Retained pay in Kansas is $111,980 after the full tax stack, from $159,990. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $124,471 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $168,320 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Sales Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $91,530 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $159,990 |
| Top tenth earn over | $249,990 |
| This salary | $159,990 |
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 | $111,980 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $120,619 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$345 |
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 | $147,351 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$491 |
| 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 $159,990. The published range is $91,530 up to $249,990, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Kansas the take-home figure of $111,980, from $159,990, 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 7 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 $124,471 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 7.
- Reported values are medians; for sales managers in Kansas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $91,530 to $249,990. 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 $111,980 from $159,990. 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 7 of 488 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $124,471, worked from $159,990, 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 7 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 $168,320 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?
The label is broader than the work. From $91,530 at the bottom tenth to $249,990 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $124,471 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, $111,980 remains.
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.
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 $168,320. 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 ($91,530) and the ninetieth ($249,990) 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 $124,471 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 $111,980 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.