Kansas Minimum Wage Calculator
Kansas’s minimum wage is $7.25 per hour, but a pay estimate also needs the correct overtime threshold. Ordinary federal overtime begins after 40 hours. Kansas’s state-only law generally uses 46 hours for covered employment outside the FLSA.
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Overtime uses the full regular rate before subtracting a permitted tip credit. The employer must cover a weekly tip shortfall within the selected scope. This floor scenario does not calculate pay at a higher agreed rate. Per-workday pay divides the week by the days with hours. Annual figures repeat the rounded weekly result.
Reviewed rate period: 2026-01-01 through 2027-12-31. Gross earnings before taxes or deductions. Annual figures repeat this weekly scenario; they do not combine different rate periods.
Reviewed October 2, 2026. Kansas Department of Labor’s wage and overtime guidance.
Choose coverage before choosing the cheaper result
The Kansas law excludes employers and employees covered by the federal FLSA. The 46-hour threshold therefore cannot be used simply because the workplace is in Kansas. Confirm enterprise coverage, individual coverage and any exemption first. The calculator leaves its coverage selection blank so that 46 hours is never silently used for a federal-covered worker. K.S.A. 44-1203(c); DOL federal coverage tests.
Same wage floor, different weekly totals
| Hours worked | Federal-covered, after 40 | Kansas-only covered, after 46 |
|---|---|---|
| 40 | $290.00 | $290.00 |
| 45 | $344.38 | $326.25 |
| 46 | $355.25 | $333.50 |
| 50 | $398.75 | $377.00 |
For 50 state-only hours, the calculation is 46 × $7.25 plus 4 × $10.875, giving $377. For federal-covered employment, the same 50 hours include ten overtime hours and produce $398.75. The $21.75 difference is entirely due to six additional half-time premiums.
The Kansas-only rule also has special work-period exceptions
The statute specifies different arrangements for emergency medical, fire-protection and law-enforcement work and lists additional excluded work. These are not ordinary 46-hour scenarios. The form excludes them, together with any exemption affecting the selected law. The calculator’s annual figure is not a test of exempt salary status. K.S.A. 44-1204, overtime and exceptions.
Tipped cash pay starts at $2.13 only when the credit is supported
Kansas’s statute requires at least $2.13 cash for its covered tipped work and makes the employer responsible if cash plus retained tips is below $7.25. The modeled maximum credit is $5.12 per hour. The federal option separately requires federal notice, occupation and tip-retention conditions. K.S.A. 44-1203(b); Federal tip-credit conditions.
At 50 hours with $300 retained tips, the Kansas-only cash requirement is $121 and combined gross is $421. The federal-covered cash requirement is $142.75 and combined gross is $442.75. With only $200 tips, either scenario needs a $56 employer adjustment; overtime cash remains additional to the ordinary floor requirement.
Use hours and weeks from the actual job
A 40-hour, 52-week full-cash scenario produces $15,080 gross, or $1,256.67 per month on average. A 30-hour schedule for 26 weeks produces $5,655. Neither figure includes taxes, insurance deductions, employer benefits or a living-cost assumption.
For Kansas City commuting, distinguish the Kansas workplace from a workplace under the Missouri minimum wage before comparing pay. Jobs across other borders use Colorado minimum wage, Nebraska minimum wage or Oklahoma minimum wage rules. Residency by itself does not select this wage model.
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