SALARY · REGISTERED NURSES · KANSAS

Registered Nurses salary in Kansas

If you are weighing a move, or weighing whether to stay, this is the number that matters first. In Kansas, the middle registered nurses earned $79,320 a year in the latest BLS release. Half earned more than that and half earned less, so treat it as a realistic middle point, not a promise and not a ceiling.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$79,320

$38 per hour at the median · That is $18,230 (18.7 percent) below the national median of $97,550 for this occupation.

$82,360Mean annual salary

$40Mean hourly wage

$33,800People employed in this job in Kansas

Salary range

25th: $73,300Median: $79,32075th: $94,700

Measure	Annual
25th percentile	$73,300
Median (50th percentile)	$79,320
75th percentile	$94,700
Mean	$82,360

The middle half of workers earned from $73,300 to $94,700 a year. The gap between the mean and the median tells its own story. When the mean sits above the median, a smaller group at the top is pulling the average up. When the two are close, pay is more even across the field.

What stays in your pocket on the median salary

ESTIMATED TAKE-HOME PAY

$61,005 a year

$5,084 a month

Federal tax $8,620 · FICA $6,068 · State tax $3,626

Caveat: the Kansas $9,160 personal exemption is from continuing official statute, not from the 2026 Form K-40ES itself, which refers the reader to the K-40 booklet for exemption amounts.

Read this before you use the take-home figure. It is a single-filer estimate using the 2026 standard deduction. It leaves out credits, other deductions, local taxes, and retirement or health deductions. Your actual paycheck can differ, and for states without a verified 2026 table in this build, state tax is still to be added once its table is verified.

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