SALARY · WAITERS AND WAITRESSES · KANSAS

Waiters and Waitresses salary in Kansas

Averages can hide a lot. Medians hide less. That is why this page leads with the median for waiters and waitresses in Kansas: $36,120 a year. The mean is listed too, so you can see when a small group of high earners pulls the average upward.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$36,120

$17 per hour at the median · That is $890 (2.5 percent) above the national median of $35,230 for this occupation.

$39,170Mean annual salary
$19Mean hourly wage
$19,480People employed in this job in Kansas

Salary range

25th: $26,830Median: $36,12075th: $47,690
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$26,830
Median (50th percentile)$36,120
75th percentile$47,690
Mean$39,170

The middle half of workers earned from $26,830 to $47,690 a year. Do not read the percentile range as good versus bad jobs. It mostly reflects experience, hours, employer type and local demand. A new starter near the 25th percentile and a veteran near the 75th can both be fairly paid for their stage.

What stays in your pocket on the median salary

ESTIMATED TAKE-HOME PAY

$29,987 a year
$2,499 a month
Federal tax $2,154 · FICA $2,763 · State tax $1,216

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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