Tool and Die Makers in Kansas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$63,454
after federal, FICA and Kansas tax
Tax takes
$20,436
24.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$70,532
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
$83,890
Kept after tax
$63,454
Worth in national money
$70,532
State rank
2
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for tool and die makers is strong here. Kansas's middle earner gets $83,890, putting the state 2 of 45 — about 30.98% ahead of the national figure.
- Within Kansas this is well-paid work. Of 488 occupations with published figures in the state, tool and die makers ranks 82 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Kansas is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $83,890 the take-home is $63,454; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $70,532 would nationally. The average lands at $75,960, below the middle of the range.
- For tool and die makers, Kansas sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $83,890, ranking 2 of 45 and running about 30.98% 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.
- Ranked against every occupation Kansas publishes a median for, tool and die makers sits 82 of 488 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- Post-tax income for tool and die makers in Kansas, on $83,890, is $63,454 — equivalent to $70,532 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $75,960 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Tool and Die Makers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $51,350 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $83,890 |
| Top tenth earn over | $92,670 |
| This salary | $83,890 |
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 | $63,454 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $67,847 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$713 |
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 | $77,646 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$985 |
| 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 $83,890. The published range is $51,350 up to $92,670, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $63,454 take-home in Kansas comes from $83,890. 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 82 of 488.
- Two cautions on $70,532, the adjusted value of that $83,890 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 82 of 488 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for tool and die makers in Kansas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $51,350 to $92,670. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $63,454, from $83,890, 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 82 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 2 of 45 for it.
- This $70,532 adjusted figure, worked from $83,890, 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 82 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 82 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $75,960, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $51,350 at the tenth percentile, $92,670 at the ninetieth.
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 $70,532.
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, $63,454 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 45 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
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 $75,960. 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 ($51,350 to $92,670) 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 $70,532 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 $63,454 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.