Kansas Paycheck Calculator 2026

How this calculator works

The Kansas Department of Revenue publishes a withholding formula, and this calculator follows it. Your pay is converted to a yearly amount. The withholding allowance comes off ($9,160 for a single filer, $18,320 for a married filer whose spouse has no income). The rest is taxed through a table with a 0% step, a 5.2% step and a 5.58% step, and the yearly result is divided by the number of pay periods. Kansas prints two tables, one for single filers and one for married filers, and the married table has wider steps.

The calculator applies these deductions in this order:

• Federal income tax. Your gross pay minus the federal standard deduction for your filing status, run through the 2026 federal brackets.
• Social Security at 6.2% of gross wages, up to the 2026 wage base of $184,500.
• Medicare at 1.45% of all wages, with no cap, plus the 0.9% Additional Medicare Tax on wages above $200,000.
• Kansas income tax: your wages after any 401(k) contribution, minus the Kansas withholding allowance for your status, taxed through the table.

This calculator has no other Kansas line. We looked for a state payroll deduction on your check and found none.

Rates come from the agencies that set them: the IRS for the federal brackets, the standard deduction and FICA, cross-checked against the Social Security Administration for the wage base; and, for Kansas, the Department of Revenue’s Withholding Tax Guide, Form K-4 and tax notices, and the Kansas Office of the Revisor of Statutes. Our full sourcing is on the methodology page.

How current the source is. The guide’s cover says its rates apply to wages paid on or after July 1, 2024, and its cover reads “Rev. 10-24.” The Department’s site did not answer our automated requests on October 20, 2026, so we read the copy the Internet Archive saved on October 9, 2026, and the Sources section links to it. That copy is the edition at the Department’s own web address on that date. The Department’s Notice 25-06 says there will be no rate reduction for tax year 2026. We did not find a newer withholding notice, but we could not browse the Department’s notices page, so we cannot rule one out. The federal figures, Social Security wage base and Medicare thresholds are the 2026 ones.

How we checked the formula against the printed tables. The guide prints the withholding for 11,440 combinations of pay and allowances: ten grids, one for each pay period and filing table, each with 104 rows of pay and one column for each number of allowances from 0 to 10. We rebuilt every cell from the formula, using the middle of each pay row, and 11,421 matched to the dollar. Another 19 are off by a rounding edge or sit in a row that straddles the end of the 0% step, where the guide prints $0. We also confirmed that every printed breakpoint for the weekly, biweekly, twice-a-month, monthly, quarterly, semiannual and daily tables equals the yearly breakpoint divided by the number of pay periods, rounded to the dollar. In the guide’s own worked example, a married filer paid $2,000 twice a month with three allowances has $41.44 withheld, which rounds to $41, and we reproduce it.

Withholding is an estimate, not your final bill. The figure here is what an employer takes from each check using the Department’s formula. Your actual Kansas income tax is figured on your return, so what you owe or get back when you file can differ.

What the calculator deliberately leaves out: dependents on Form K-4, a spouse who works, the extra withholding and exemption lines on the K-4, bonuses, rounding each check to the whole dollar, work in another state, and health insurance premiums and other employer benefit deductions.

Kansas’s three steps and the pay they apply to

The Department’s yearly percentage table has three steps, and they apply to what is left of your pay after the allowance, not to your pay itself. For a single filer on $75,000, that is $75,000 − $9,160 = $65,840. The first $3,605 of it is not taxed, the next $23,000 is taxed at 5.2%, and every dollar above $26,605 is taxed at 5.58%. For a single filer, that top step is reached at $35,765 of yearly pay.

The Department prints the same tables for each pay period, with the breakpoints scaled to the period. The employer applies them to the pay for that check after subtracting the allowance divided by the number of periods. The table below shows where the steps fall on each kind of paycheck, as the guide prints them.

The withholding allowance: what changes with your Kansas K-4

Kansas does not use a standard deduction in its withholding formula. It uses an allowance, built from the personal exemption, and Form K-4 is how you tell your employer how many to apply. The first allowance, or the first two for a married person whose spouse has no income, is worth $9,160 each. Every allowance after that, such as one for a dependent, is worth $2,320. This is how the calculator maps its three choices.

The allowance comes off your pay before the table, so each extra $1,000 of allowance is worth $55.80 a year to anyone in the top step. A married couple where both spouses work should each mark “Single” on their own K-4, which takes $9,160 off each paycheck, the same as two single filers. If only one spouse has income and marks “Joint,” the $18,320 allowance and the wider married table apply to that one paycheck.

If you commute to Kansas City, Missouri: how Kansas withholds

Kansas shares a long border with Missouri, and some people live on one side of the state line and work on the other. Two separate rules apply, one in each state, and this calculator models neither.

If you live in Kansas and work outside it

The Department’s guide tells the employer of a Kansas resident working in another state to withhold the Kansas amount less the amount the other state requires. Its example is a Kansas resident working in Missouri: $250 of Kansas tax on the wages, $130 of Missouri withholding, and $120 withheld for Kansas. If the other state’s amount is larger, no Kansas tax is withheld.

If you live elsewhere and work in Kansas

For a nonresident who works full time in Kansas, the guide says the employer withholds Kansas tax on the total wages as if the employee were a Kansas resident. For someone who works both inside and outside Kansas, the employer figures the Kansas amount on all the wages and multiplies it by the share of the work done in Kansas.

Kansas City, Missouri has its own tax

Kansas City, Missouri charges a 1% earnings tax. The city’s guide for employers outside the city, who may withhold the tax voluntarily, says that once they register they must withhold it on the part of a nonresident’s pay earned in the city. If all of a $75,000 salary were earned there, the tax would be $750.00 a year, or $62.50 a month, which would bring a single filer’s take-home pay from $58,207 to about $57,457. This calculator does not add it, because it cannot know where you work. The Missouri calculator explains the city taxes in detail.

Kansas hourly paycheck: what your rate is worth after tax

Why we ask for your hours instead of assuming 2,080

Many hourly calculators multiply your rate by 2,080 and call it a year. That is 40 hours a week for 52 weeks, which describes a full-time schedule, not every hourly job. If you work 32 hours a week, or 45 with overtime, the assumed figure is wrong before any tax is applied. The calculator above asks for your hours and uses them. In Kansas your hours also matter because of the allowance: a single filer earning $12,765 or less a year has nothing withheld.

What is $20 an hour after taxes in Kansas?

At 40 hours a week, $20 an hour is $41,600 a year gross. After federal tax, Social Security, Medicare and Kansas income tax withholding, that leaves about $34,084 a year, or $2,840.33 a month. Your real hourly rate — what an hour of work actually puts in your bank account — is $16.39. Kansas’s share is $1,521.59 of income tax withholding for the year.

What are $25 and $30 an hour after taxes in Kansas?

$25 an hour is $52,000 gross and about $41,860 after tax, a real rate of $20.13. $30 an hour is $62,400 gross and about $49,636 after tax, a real rate of $23.86. Kansas income tax withholding is $2,101.91 a year at $25 an hour, and $2,682.23 at $30.

Overtime and bonuses

The calculator multiplies your rate by the hours you enter and adds no overtime premium, and it does not model bonuses. The Department’s guide says Kansas withholding on supplemental pay, which includes bonuses, commissions and overtime pay, follows the method used for federal tax. When the pay is added to regular wages and the total is run through the tables, Kansas does the same. When it is stated separately and federal tax is a flat percentage of it, Kansas withholds 5% of the gross payment. If you work variable hours, enter the average number of hours you expect to work each week.

Kansas take-home pay by hourly rate

Single filer, 40 hours a week (2,080 hours a year).

What this calculator does not cover

This tool models federal income tax, Social Security, Medicare and the payroll programs your state actually runs — nothing more. It deliberately leaves out:

• Itemized deductions and federal tax credits — the Child Tax Credit, the Earned Income Tax Credit, education credits. The engine always applies the standard deduction; there is no itemizing path.
• A second job, self-employment income or 1099 pay. Every dollar you enter is treated as one employer’s W-2 wages, taxed at the employee share of Social Security and Medicare — not the self-employment tax a 1099 worker actually owes.
• Pre-tax benefits other than the 401(k) field — health insurance premiums, an HSA or FSA, commuter benefits. The only amount taken out before tax is the percentage you enter for a 401(k).
• Local taxes — the Kansas withholding guide we read describes state withholding only, and we found no Kansas city or county income tax on wages in it. That is not proof that none exists. If you live in Kansas but work in Kansas City, Missouri, that city’s 1% earnings tax may apply to the part of your pay earned there; see the Missouri calculator. This calculator adds no local line for Kansas. The only local income tax lines on this site are on the Indiana and Maryland calculators.
• Overtime premiums. An hourly rate is multiplied by the hours you enter; it does not add a time-and-a-half rate for hours worked past 40 in a week.
• Wage garnishments or court-ordered deductions — child support, a wage levy. Your result assumes none exist.
• The Additional Medicare Tax, at the single-filer threshold. The 0.9% surtax above $200,000 is applied at that one figure for every filing status, the way an employer actually withholds it — not the higher threshold a married couple filing jointly may end up owing at tax return time.
• Married filing separately, or a qualifying surviving spouse. The calculator only offers single, married filing jointly, and head of household.

None of these are in the estimate. Some of them change what you owe or get back when you file, and a calculator cannot ask for everything they depend on. See why your pay stub will differ for the details.

Key facts that affect your take-home pay in Kansas

The first $3,605 of what is left is not taxed

The table starts with a 0% step. With the $9,160 allowance, a single filer’s yearly pay has to pass $12,765 before Kansas withholds anything. At $17,000, Kansas withholds $220.22; at $30,000, it withholds $896.22 a year.

The 5.58% step starts at $35,765 of pay

Kansas has only two rates, and they are close. The 5.2% step covers $23,000 of taxable pay and produces $1,196.00 of tax. Compared with taxing all $26,605 at 5.58%, it saves $288.56 a year. Above $26,605, each extra dollar is taxed at 5.58%, whether your pay is $75,000 or $250,000. For a single filer paid more than $35,765, Kansas withholding behaves like a flat 5.58% on pay above the allowance, less a fixed $288.56.

The married table is wider, and the allowance doubles

A single filer’s taxable pay is pay minus $9,160. A married filer who marks “Joint” and enters 1 on lines B and C gets $18,320 off and a table whose 0% step runs to $8,240 and whose 5.58% step starts above $54,240. That is why Kansas withholds $2,528.15 from that filer on $75,000 and $3,385.31 from a single one. Taxable pay for the married filer is $56,680, of which $2,440 is above the $54,240 step.

Head of household has its own allowance

The guide says a head of household may claim one additional $2,320 allowance, and the Department’s Notice 25-07 says the same of the statute, so the calculator takes $11,480 off and uses the single filer’s table, as the Department’s tables do. On $75,000, taxable pay is $63,520 and Kansas withholds $3,255.86. The federal tax is lower for a head of household ($5,748.00 on $75,000), so take-home pay is $60,259. Line D of the K-4 says to enter 2, which in the printed tables would take $13,800 off: taxable pay of $61,200 and tax of $3,126.40, which is $129.46 less.

Each dependent is worth up to $129.46 a year

Line E of the K-4 asks for the number of dependents you will claim, and each one is an allowance of $2,320. At the 5.58% step that lowers yearly withholding by $129.46; in the 5.2% step it is $120.64. This calculator does not ask for dependents, so a worker with children who claims them on the K-4 will see less Kansas tax withheld than the figure shown.

No K-4 means no allowance

The guide says that if an employee does not complete a K-4, the employer must withhold at the single rate with no allowances. On $75,000 that is $3,896.44 a year instead of $3,385.31, which is $511.13 more. A new hire who has not turned in the form can see a smaller paycheck than the figure on this page.

Your employer can round each check to the whole dollar

The guide says Kansas withholding computed with the percentage method may be rounded, dropping amounts under 50 cents and rounding 50 to 99 cents up. On $75,000, the yearly figure of $3,385.31 is $282.11 a month, which would be withheld as $282, and $130.20 on a biweekly check, which would be withheld as $130. This calculator does not round, so a real check can differ from its figure by up to 50 cents.

Unemployment insurance is your employer’s cost

Kansas law (K.S.A. 44-710) says an employer’s unemployment contributions “shall not be deducted, in whole or in part, from the wages of individuals in such employer’s employ.” We did not find a state disability insurance or paid leave program run through payroll in the documents we read. That is a statement about what we read, not a guarantee that nothing else exists, and your pay stub is the final word.

Your 401(k) lowers your Kansas taxable wages in this calculator

The guide says Kansas withholding on deferred compensation plans follows the federal rules, and that contributions to such a plan are generally not subject to withholding. This calculator therefore starts from pay after a traditional 401(k) contribution, as it does for every state on this site. On $75,000 with 6% going in, Kansas income tax withholding falls by $251.10 a year. Enter 0 if your contribution is a Roth.

The Department says there is no rate cut for 2026

The guide says its rates apply to wages paid on or after July 1, 2024, and the Department’s Notice 25-06 says there will be no rate reduction for tax year 2026. A 2025 law provides for future cuts when state revenue passes a set test; the notice says the test was not met. We would update this page when the Department publishes new tables.

Social Security stops, Medicare does not

Social Security is withheld at 6.2% until your wages reach $184,500 in 2026, then stops for the rest of the year. Medicare has no ceiling at all: 1.45% on every dollar, plus an extra 0.9% on wages above $200,000. On $250,000, Social Security and Medicare take $15,514.00 in total.

Common mistakes

Forgetting the allowance

Applying the table to the full $75,000 instead of $65,840 overstates Kansas withholding by $511.13: $3,896.44 instead of $3,385.31. That is also what an employer withholds if you never turn in a K-4.

Taxing everything at the top rate

The 5.58% rate applies only above $26,605 of taxable pay for a single filer. Applying it to all of $65,840 gives $3,673.87, which overstates withholding by $288.56.

Checking “Joint” when your spouse has income

A married filer whose spouse also works should mark “Single,” not “Joint.” At $75,000, marking “Joint” anyway lowers withholding from $3,385.31 to $2,528.15, which is $857.16 too little withheld over a year. The shortfall can show up as a balance due when you file.

Ignoring the Kansas City, Missouri tax

If you live in Kansas and work in Kansas City, Missouri, the city’s earnings tax is 1% of the pay you earn there, which would be $750.00 if all of a $75,000 salary were earned in the city. This calculator’s result does not include it.

Expecting round numbers on every check

Kansas employers may round each withholding to the whole dollar. A yearly figure divided by 12 or 26 will rarely come out to a whole dollar, so each stub can differ from this calculator by up to 50 cents.

Expecting the calculator to match the pay stub to the dollar

It will not, and no calculator can. Health insurance premiums and other pre-tax benefit deductions come out before tax and are not modeled here, and the allowances you claimed on your Form K-4 may differ from the one we assume. Read why your pay stub will differ for the rest.

Example calculation

Amounts are shown to the cent, so adding the rounded lines can differ from the total by a cent.

A single filer earning $75,000 in Kansas in 2026, with one allowance and no retirement contribution, under the Department’s formula:

• Federal taxable income: $75,000 − federal standard deduction of $16,100 = $58,900
• Federal income tax: $7,670.00
• Social Security: $75,000 × 6.2% = $4,650.00
• Medicare: $75,000 × 1.45% = $1,087.50
• Kansas taxable pay: $75,000 − $9,160 allowance = $65,840
• Tax on the first $3,605: $3,605 × 0% = $0.00
• Tax on the next $23,000: $23,000 × 5.2% = $1,196.00
• Tax on the other $39,235: $39,235 × 5.58% = $2,189.31
• Kansas income tax withholding: $1,196.00 + $2,189.31 = $3,385.31 a year, $282.11 on a monthly paycheck or $130.20 on a biweekly one
• Total withheld: $16,792.81
• Take-home pay: $58,207.19 a year, or $4,850.60 a month
• Effective tax rate: 22.4%

Frequently asked questions

Compare with other states

The same $75,000 salary, single filer, 2026 rates. Kansas borders four states: Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma and Colorado. We have a calculator for all four. Missouri’s row leaves out the Kansas City and St. Louis earnings taxes, as the other rows leave out their own local taxes.

The table rounds take-home pay to the dollar; the differences in this paragraph use the exact amounts. Compared with a Kansas worker on the same salary, a Nebraska worker keeps $852.36 more, a Missouri worker keeps $797.65 more, an Oklahoma worker keeps $555.81 more, and a Colorado worker keeps $2.69 less. A worker who lives in one of those states and commutes into Kansas, or the reverse, is a different case that this calculator does not model: it assumes a Kansas resident working in Kansas.

Sources

Every figure on this page is read from an official document and dated, not taken from another calculator — the federal ones from the IRS and the Social Security Administration, the Kansas ones from the state’s own documents below. Each one carries the date we last checked that it still answers. If one of our numbers disagrees with one of theirs, they are right and we have a defect to fix — tell us.

The documents these figures are read from

• Kansas Department of Revenue — Withholding Tax Guide, KW-100 (Rev. 10-24; PDF, Internet Archive snapshot of October 9, 2026) — the percentage formula (the withholding allowance amount comes off the pay, then the table: 0% up to $3,605, 5.2% up to $26,605 and 5.58% above for a single filer, with higher steps for a married one), the printed wage-bracket tables, the whole-dollar rounding rule and the 5% rate on separately stated bonuses; the agency’s site did not answer our requests, so we link the archived copy.
• Kansas Department of Revenue — Form K-4, Employee’s Withholding Allowance Certificate (Rev. 7-24; PDF, Internet Archive snapshot of October 9, 2026) — the allowance worksheet: “Single” or “Joint” (joint only if your spouse has no income), the allowance for each dependent, and the “2” entered by a head of household.
• Kansas Department of Revenue — Notice 25-06, Decreases of income and privilege tax rates contingent on revenue (October 2, 2025; PDF, Internet Archive snapshot of May 8, 2026) — the statement that the Secretary of Revenue will not publish new income tax rates and there will be no rate reduction for tax year 2026.
• Kansas Department of Revenue — Notice 25-07, Changes to individual income tax personal exemptions (November 19, 2025; PDF, Internet Archive snapshot of May 8, 2026) — the additional $2,320 exemption for a head of household filer, for tax year 2024 and all tax years after it.
• Kansas Department of Revenue — Notice 24-06, Withholding tax tables updated (July 17, 2024; PDF, Internet Archive snapshot of February 26, 2026) — the statement that the withholding tables reflect the new rates, the higher standard deduction and the higher personal exemption for tax year 2024 and all tax years after it.
• Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes — K.S.A. 44-710, Employer contributions — the rule that an employer’s unemployment contributions shall not be deducted, in whole or in part, from the wages of the people it employs.
• City of Kansas City, Missouri — Tax Guide for Non-Resident Businesses (Internet Archive snapshot of June 9, 2026) — the one percent earnings tax that an employer registered with the city withholds on the part of a nonresident’s pay earned in Kansas City, Missouri, which matters to Kansans who commute there; the city’s own site refuses automated requests, so we link the archived copy.
• IRS — 2026 inflation adjustments (Rev. Proc. 2025-32) — the federal brackets and the $16,100 standard deduction.
• IRS — Topic no. 751, Social Security and Medicare withholding rates — the 6.2% and 1.45% rates and the 0.9% Additional Medicare Tax.
• SSA — Contribution and benefit base — the $184,500 Social Security wage base.

All links checked October 20, 2026.

Related reading

• Paycheck calculators by state — the full index, including which states have no income tax at all.
• Nebraska paycheck calculator — the neighbor to the north.
• Missouri paycheck calculator — the neighbor to the east, with rates from 0% to 4.7% and a 1% earnings tax in Kansas City and St. Louis.
• Oklahoma paycheck calculator — the neighbor to the south.
• Colorado paycheck calculator — the neighbor to the west.
• $75,000 take-home pay in every state we publish — where Kansas ranks on one salary.
• Methodology — the exact formula, every 2026 figure with its official source, and what these calculators deliberately do not model.
• Why your pay stub will differ — pre-tax deductions, credits and W-4 settings, and how much difference is normal.