Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers in Kansas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$77,859
after federal, FICA and Kansas tax
Tax takes
$28,271
26.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$86,544
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
$106,130
Kept after tax
$77,859
Worth in national money
$86,544
State rank
22
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Kansas pays this job around $106,130 at the midpoint, 22 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Kansas. It ranks 39 out of 488 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Here is where Kansas does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $106,130 you keep $77,859, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $86,544 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $116,580, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For transportation, storage, and distribution managers the Kansas median is $106,130, ranking 22 of 51 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Within Kansas, transportation, storage, and distribution managers ranks 39 of 488 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- After federal, FICA and Kansas income tax, retained pay for transportation, storage, and distribution managers on $106,130 is $77,859. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $86,544 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 $116,580 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $79,300 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $106,130 |
| Top tenth earn over | $164,790 |
| This salary | $106,130 |
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 | $77,859 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $83,492 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$624 |
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 | $98,122 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$862 |
| 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 transportation, storage, and distribution managers in Kansas earn under $106,130 and half over. The published range runs $79,300 at the tenth percentile to $164,790 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Kansas's $77,859, worked from $106,130. 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 39 of 488.
- Two cautions on $86,544, the adjusted value of that $106,130 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 39 of 488 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for transportation, storage, and distribution managers in Kansas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $79,300 to $164,790; 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.
- The Kansas take-home of $77,859, on $106,130 for work ranking 39 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 39 of 488 in the state.
- This $86,544 adjusted figure, worked from $106,130, 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 39 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 39 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 $116,580, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $79,300, the highest tenth $164,790, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $86,544.
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, $77,859 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 $116,580. 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 ($79,300) and the ninetieth ($164,790) 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 $86,544 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 $77,859 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.