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Kansas Paycheck Calculator
Work out Kansas take-home pay from gross, pay frequency, filing status and pre-tax deductions. Federal and FICA are estimated for you; enter the KS...
Estimate pay before Kansas state and local withholding, then enter the amount from current official state guidance.
Kansas state withholding is not calculated automatically. Enter the amount for this pay period from an official worksheet or genuine payroll record to include it; leave it blank to see pay before state withholding. You can enter a known local withholding amount separately. Federal assumptions for 2026 are applied automatically, while the Kansas line is subtracted only when you supply it from the Secretary of Revenue's tables or a genuine pay record, so nothing here reflects your Form K-4 allowances unless they are already built into the amount you enter. This calculator is an estimate workspace, not a payroll filing service. Verify every assumption with current official instructions.
The K-4 Your Employer Holds
Kansas withholding is not calculated here, and the federal figure is no guide to it. Kansas keeps its own certificate: an employee with Kansas source wages hired after 2007 gives the employer Form K-4, the Kansas Employee's Withholding Allowance Certificate, on or before the date of employment, and the allowances entered on it stand apart from anything claimed federally. With no K-4 on file, the Department of Revenue has the employer withhold at the single rate with no allowances. So read the Kansas amount off your own stub, or work it through the withholding tables the department publishes for employers, and type that into the Kansas box. Left blank, the total above is pay before Kansas tax.
One State Box, Two Possible State Lines
This workspace carries a single state box and reads it as Kansas, while a stub does not have to stop at one state line. K.S.A. 79-32,100d lets the Secretary of Revenue make agreements covering a Kansas resident who works in another withholding state, so both lines can appear on the same statement. Look at which agency each line is paid to before you type: the Kansas one goes in the state box, and the other belongs with the revenue agency of the state that collected it. Putting a second state's tax in the Kansas box overstates Kansas and leaves the line impossible to check later.
Frequently asked questions
Can I estimate the Kansas amount from my federal withholding?
No. Kansas runs a certificate of its own. An employee with Kansas source wages hired after 2007 files Form K-4 with the employer on or before the date of employment, and what is claimed there is not read off the federal W-4. Where no K-4 has been filed, the Department of Revenue has the employer withhold at the single rate with no allowances. Two elections free to differ cannot be scaled one from the other, so copy the Kansas figure from your stub for this period.
I live in Kansas but work across the state line. What do I enter?
Only what was withheld for Kansas in that pay period, taken from the stub itself. Where a Kansas resident works in another state that also withholds, K.S.A. 79-32,100d allows the Secretary of Revenue to make agreements, and a statement can carry a line for each state. The second line is not a Kansas amount and does not belong in the Kansas box. Check it with the agency named beside it before you rely on either figure.