State labor market
Kansas labor market
Current statewide hiring activity plus occupation-level employment and pay for Kansas. OEWS answers what occupations pay and how many workers BLS estimates are employed; the postings measures show more current statewide hiring activity.
Current statewide signal
Kansas hiring snapshot
Indeed job-postings measures across all occupations in Kansas.
Indeed job postings only. Postings are not a count of all vacancies or hires, Indeed does not cover the whole labor market, and this is statewide activity across all occupations, not an occupation health score. Each series is seasonally adjusted and indexed to its own February 1, 2020 level, so a higher index does not mean more jobs than another state. Source: Indeed Hiring Lab · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved Sep 26, 2026. JobMarketHealth calculates the displayed changes and differences.
Occupations & pay
Where Kansas workers are employed
The eight largest occupations in our tracked OEWS catalog, by BLS estimated employment. These are estimated jobs held, not current openings or a count of unique people.
Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive
32,120estimated employmentCustomer service representatives
29,200estimated employmentHome health and personal care aides
25,350estimated employmentPay examples
Selected occupation pay examples
The same familiar occupations on every state page. Each U.S. figure uses the same measure (annual or hourly) as the Kansas figure beside it.
- Registered nurses$79,320/yr Kansas median annualU.S. $97,550/yr
- Software developers$113,420/yr Kansas median annualU.S. $135,980/yr
- Electricians$65,860/yr Kansas median annualU.S. $63,190/yr
- Accountants and auditors$79,000/yr Kansas median annualU.S. $83,680/yr
- Elementary school teachers, except special education$56,450/yr Kansas median annualU.S. $63,970/yr
- Marketing managers$154,510/yr Kansas median annualU.S. $166,790/yr
Pay compared with the U.S.
How Kansas occupation pay differs
Up to 5 occupations per side with at least 1,000 estimated Kansas workers and published state and U.S. median annual wages, ordered by the largest percentage gap. Nominal wages, not adjusted for cost of living; not a demand or overall market ranking, and not a test of statistical significance.
Higher median than U.S.
- Meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers$48,080/yr state median · 5,000 workers+25.5%vs. U.S. $38,300/yr
- Preschool teachers, except special education$47,750/yr state median · 1,330 workers+25.2%vs. U.S. $38,140/yr
- Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products$130,850/yr state median · 2,440 workers+24.7%vs. U.S. $104,920/yr
- Packers and packagers, hand$44,460/yr state median · 9,900 workers+22.5%vs. U.S. $36,280/yr
- Slaughterers and meat packers$48,240/yr state median · 2,170 workers+20.2%vs. U.S. $40,130/yr
Lower median than U.S.
- Financial specialists, all other$51,160/yr state median · 1,140 workers-36.9%vs. U.S. $81,100/yr
- Legal secretaries and administrative assistants$36,620/yr state median · 1,600 workers-34.1%vs. U.S. $55,570/yr
- Lawyers$106,650/yr state median · 4,190 workers-33.2%vs. U.S. $159,670/yr
- Office clerks, general$32,370/yr state median · 2,130 workers-28.1%vs. U.S. $45,010/yr
- Medical equipment repairers$45,200/yr state median · 1,270 workers-26.7%vs. U.S. $61,660/yr
Explore occupations
Occupation pay in Kansas
Search every tracked OEWS occupation record for Kansas. Links marked “Kansas report” open a detailed state report; links marked “National report” open the U.S. occupation report because no Kansas report is available.
629 occupations · showing 1–25
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), reference period May 2025; our data connection last checked Sep 23, 2026. OEWS covers wage and salary jobs and excludes the self-employed. “Top-coded” means BLS publishes only that the wage is at or above its reporting ceiling; “Not released” means BLS withheld the estimate. Missing values are never estimated. These occupation wages are separate from the QCEW industry trends on detailed occupation pages.