Kansas paycheck calculator
Kansas withholding turns on the K-4, the state's own allowance certificate. The first allowance, and a married employee's first two, stand for the personal exemption and take a large fixed sum off the annualised wage; every further allowance, for a dependent or for a head of household, takes off a smaller one. The remainder is read against a graduated schedule that splits into a single and a married column, with head of household on the single one.
Take-home pay
$1,590.35
per bi-weekly (26 per year) period
- Gross pay
- $2,000.00
- Federal Income Tax
- −$156.15
- Social Security
- −$124.00
- Medicare
- −$29.00
- KS State Income Tax
- −$100.50
- Net pay
- $1,590.35
Carries these figures into a full Kansas pay stub you can preview and download.
How Kansas withholding is worked out
An employee who hands in no K-4 is withheld as single with no allowances, and the calculator opens the same way, so a married employee needs to set the status, the allowance count and the spouse question before the figure matches their own. The K-4 gives the joint rate only to a married employee whose spouse has no income; one whose spouse has income marks "Single", and a spouse question left unanswered reads as no K-4 at all. Because the first allowance carries the personal exemption, no later allowance can move the Kansas line further than the step from none to one, or for a married employee the steps to two. The guide from the Department of Revenue ties cafeteria and 401(k) plans to their federal treatment: where federal income tax withholding applies to them, Kansas withholding applies as well.
These are withholding figures: what an employer takes out of one paycheck, which is not the same calculation as the one on an annual return.
Wages are annualised before the schedule is read, so the figures below are annual.
A married employee whose spouse also works is withheld as single instead.
An employee who files no Form K-4 is withheld at the single rate with no allowances, and so is a married employee who leaves the spouse question unanswered.
| Annual wages | Tax on the lower figure | Rate on the rest |
|---|---|---|
| $0.00 to $3,605.00 | $0.00 | 0% |
| $3,605.00 to $26,605.00 | $0.00 | 5.2% |
| $26,605.00 and up | $1,196.00 | 5.58% |
| Annual wages | Tax on the lower figure | Rate on the rest |
|---|---|---|
| $0.00 to $8,240.00 | $0.00 | 0% |
| $8,240.00 to $54,240.00 | $0.00 | 5.2% |
| $54,240.00 and up | $2,392.00 | 5.58% |
| Annual wages | Tax on the lower figure | Rate on the rest |
|---|---|---|
| $0.00 to $3,605.00 | $0.00 | 0% |
| $3,605.00 to $26,605.00 | $0.00 | 5.2% |
| $26,605.00 and up | $1,196.00 | 5.58% |
- Exemption per allowance
The first allowance, or the first two for married filing jointly: $9,160.00 each
Each further allowance: $2,320.00
Taken off the income before the schedule.
KW-100 Rev. 10-24 is still the guide Kansas serves; the file has not changed since October 2024, and it is cited here from a web archive copy of that same revision. The K-4 inside it sets the allowance rate by the spouse rather than by the filing status (block A: "If you are married and your spouse has income mark \"Single\""), so a joint filer whose spouse works is withheld at the single rate, schedule and first allowance alike. Without a K-4 the guide says "the employer must withhold wages at the single rate with no allowances" (page 5), which is how an unanswered spouse question is read.
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