2026 Kansas paycheck calculator
Kansas taxes pay at 5.2 and 5.58 percent after exemptions, and head of household gets one extra $2,320 allowance.
Updated for 2026Checked Oct 29, 2026 against IRS and Kansas Department of Revenue sourcesHow we check
Your take-home pay
$1,236.14
per paycheck, paid every two weeks
- Gross pay
- $1,500.00
- Federal income tax
- $96.15
- Social Security
- $93.00
- Medicare
- $21.75
- County tax
- Choose your county
- Take-home
- $1,236.14
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Kansas pay rules at a glance
| State income tax | Rates rise with pay Source |
| County or local tax | None Source |
| Disability or paid leave | None Source |
| Minimum wage | $7.25 an hour Source |
| Tipped minimum cash wage | $2.13 an hour, before tips Source |
| Final paycheck if you are let go | By the next regular payday on which the worker would have been paid if still employed, through regular pay channels or by mail if the worker asks. Source |
| Final paycheck if you quit | Same rule: by the next regular payday. Source |
What comes out of a Kansas paycheck
On $1,500 every two weeks, single, a Kansas worker keeps $1,236.14.
Kansas has two rates, 5.2 percent and 5.58 percent. Before either applies, your exemptions come off your pay. The Department of Revenue's guide, KW-100, turns a year's exemptions into an amount for each pay period and subtracts it from the paycheck. A table then supplies the tax. For a single worker paid weekly, nothing is taxed up to $69 of what is left, 5.2 percent applies above that, and 5.58 percent applies above $512. Married workers have wider steps, starting at $158 and $1,043 weekly.
The yearly exemptions are $9,160 for a single worker, $18,320 for a married couple filing jointly, and $2,320 for each dependent. Divided by your pay periods, one dependent lowers the pay that is taxed by $44.62 a week, $89.23 biweekly, $96.67 semimonthly, or $193.33 monthly.
Head of household needs a plain explanation. The guide and the state statute give a head of household one extra $2,320 allowance on top of the single amount, and the calculator follows them. Line D of Form K-4 says to enter 2 for that status. If your employer counts it as two allowances, less tax comes out than shown here, by about $2,320 of exemptions a year.
The calculator treats every married worker as having a spouse with no income. The K-4 tells a married worker whose spouse earns income to choose the Single rate, and that means more tax comes out than the calculator shows. Kansas does not subtract federal tax. The guide lets employers round to the whole dollar, and the calculator keeps the cents.
County and local taxes
Kansas law says no city may tax incomes from any source, apart from an intangibles tax on unearned income that is not a wage tax. Kansas City, Kansas, has no earnings tax. The 1 percent earnings tax some Kansans see on a pay stub belongs to Kansas City, Missouri, and it applies to people who work in that Missouri city. It is a Missouri tax and not part of this result.
Final pay and the minimum wage
Kansas sets its minimum wage at $7.25 an hour, the same as the federal rate, and state law reaches some employers the federal law does not. Tipped workers must be paid at least $2.13 an hour in cash.
After a job ends, whether you quit or are let go, the employer owes your wages by the next regular payday on which you would have been paid had you stayed. The employer may pay through the usual channel, or by mail if you ask.
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Sources and checks
Checked on Oct 29, 2026. Source: Kansas Department of Revenue, KW-100 Kansas Withholding Tax Guide (Rev. 10-24), 'for wages paid on or after July 1, 2024', pages 6, 19, and 20 (ksrevenue.gov/pdf/kw100.pdf, saved as data/sources/kansas/kw100.pdf, read Oct 29, 2026), and 'Tables for Percentage Method of Kansas Withholding' (ksrevenue.gov/pdf/whrates.pdf, saved as data/sources/kansas/whrates.pdf). Kansas Department of Revenue Notice 25-06 (October 2, 2025; ksrevenue.gov/taxnotices/notice25-06.pdf, saved as data/sources/kansas/notice25-06.pdf) says the revenue triggers in SB 269 were not met, so there is no rate reduction for tax year 2026. Exemption amounts: K.S.A. 79-32,121b (saved as data/sources/kansas/ksa-79-32-121b.html).
Local taxes: K.S.A. 12-140 (ksrevisor.gov, saved as data/sources/kansas/ksa-012-001-40.html, read Oct 29, 2026): 'Except as otherwise specifically authorized by K.S.A. 12-1,101 to 12-1,109, no city shall have power to levy and collect taxes on incomes from whatever source derived' (the exception is the intangibles tax on unearned income, not a wage tax). This covers Kansas City, Kansas, which has no earnings tax. The 1 percent earnings tax a Kansan may see is Kansas City, Missouri's, which applies to people who work in that Missouri city and is a Missouri tax, not a Kansas one. A 2025 bill to let counties levy an earnings tax, SB 108, shows only its introduced version on the Legislature's bill page (kslegislature.gov, saved as data/sources/kansas/sb108-2025.html), and the current county home rule statute, K.S.A. 19-101a (saved as data/sources/kansas/ksa-019-001-01a.html), contains no earnings-tax authority.
Disability and paid leave: Kansas has no state disability or paid-family-leave insurance program funded by a worker payroll deduction: no Kansas statute creates one, and the Kansas Department of Revenue's withholding guide (KW-100, Rev. 10-24) lists Kansas income tax as the only state amount withheld from wages. The Kansas Department of Labor site (dol.ks.gov) refused automated requests on Oct 29, 2026, so no agency page saying 'none' in those words was saved.
Minimum wage: K.S.A. 44-1203(a) (ksrevisor.gov, saved as data/sources/kansas/ksa-044_012_0003.html, read Oct 29, 2026): 'on and after January 1, 2010, employee wages shall be paid at a rate of not less than $7.25 an hour.' The Kansas law covers employers that the federal Fair Labor Standards Act does not cover; employers under the federal act owe the federal $7.25, the same rate. K.S.A. 44-1203(b): 'For employees receiving tips and gratuities, the employer shall pay a minimum wage of at least $2.13 an hour.' No change is scheduled.
Final paycheck: K.S.A. 44-315(a) (ksrevisor.gov, saved as data/sources/kansas/ksa-044_003_0015.html, read Oct 29, 2026): 'Whenever an employer discharges an employee or whenever an employee quits or resigns, the employer shall pay the employee's earned wages not later than the next regular payday upon which he or she would have been paid if still employed.'
Federal withholding: IRS Publication 15-T (2026), Worksheet 1A and its "2026 Percentage Method Tables for Automated Payroll Systems and Withholding on Periodic Payments of Pensions and Annuities," pages 10 to 12. Fetched directly from irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p15t.pdf and transcribed Oct 28, 2026.
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