Teaching Assistants Average Salary in Kansas
$30,781 average · $30,781 median · BLS OEWS 2025
SOC Code: 25-9040What is this?
Combined BLS estimate across: Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary, Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary
This page shows employer-reported wages for Teaching Assistants in Kansas, drawn from the Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS survey — median and mean pay, the full percentile distribution, and the industries that employ this occupation locally. The salary schedule rewards exactly two things: years of service and accumulated credentials (master's degrees, additional certifications), each with published dollar values. Across states, the differences are large and persistent — the same teacher can earn 60-80% more by crossing certain state lines, though cost-of-living adjustment narrows some of that gap. Summer work, coaching stipends, and department-head roles add increments the base data does not show.
How much do Teaching Assistants make in Kansas?
The average teaching assistants salary in Kansas is $30,781 per year. That works out to about $14.80 per hour on average. BLS counts roughly 20,640 teaching assistants jobs in Kansas.
Mean and median are close, so pay is relatively concentrated around $30,781. Entry-level roles (10th percentile) report about $30,781; experienced workers at the 90th percentile report about $30,781 — a 0% spread from bottom to top. Figures are employer-reported wages from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — not self-reported survey averages — so they are the right baseline for offers, raises, and relocation decisions in this market.
How Educational Instruction and Library Careers Are Structured
Teaching wages are set by public salary schedules in most states, which makes this one of the most transparent and predictable occupational groups in the data — and one where the state-to-state differences shown here are unusually decisive, because individual negotiation plays almost no role.
The wage tables and percentile chart on this page show how teaching assistants pay is distributed in Kansas specifically — and because state-level wages for the same occupation routinely differ by 30% or more, the local figures here are the ones that matter for offers, raises, and relocation decisions in this market.
What Moves Pay in This Field
The salary schedule rewards exactly two things: years of service and accumulated credentials (master's degrees, additional certifications), each with published dollar values. Across states, the differences are large and persistent — the same teacher can earn 60-80% more by crossing certain state lines, though cost-of-living adjustment narrows some of that gap. Summer work, coaching stipends, and department-head roles add increments the base data does not show.
Entry requires state certification, typically via an education degree or a post-baccalaureate credential program; alternative certification routes exist in most states for career-changers. Because pay is schedule-driven, the highest-leverage decisions are made early: which state, which district, and whether to invest in the master’s degree that lifts the entire remaining career’s schedule placement.
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What Do Teaching Assistants Do?
Teaching Assistants positions belong to the educational instruction and library field. Teaching wages are set by public salary schedules in most states, which makes this one of the most transparent and predictable occupational groups in the data — and one where the state-to-state differences shown here are unusually decisive, because individual negotiation plays almost no role.
Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) Code: 25-9040
Teaching Assistants pay in Kansas
In Kansas, teaching assistants report a median of $30,781 (about $14.80/hour) across roughly 20,640 jobs. The local pay band runs from about $30,781 at the 10th percentile to $30,781 at the 90th.
Compared with the national distribution, local industry mix and cost of living are the main reasons Kansas wages for this occupation sit where they do — toggle Regional Price Parity on this page to see purchasing-power-adjusted pay.
What your paycheck is really worth in Kansas
Prices in Kansas run 10% below the national average (RPP 90.1). So a nominal salary of $30,781 has the buying power of about $34,175 in national terms.
Kansas vs. United States for Teaching Assistants
The median teaching assistants salary in Kansas is $30,781, which is -22.1% below the national median of $39,531 (mean pay is -21.9% below the U.S. mean of $39,388). Among 51 states and D.C. with OEWS data, Kansas ranks #44 by median wage for this occupation (near the bottom of the distribution). Kansas accounts for about 0.2% of U.S. teaching assistants employment in the latest OEWS release.
See every state ranked for this occupation on the best-paying states page, or compare purchasing power on real wages.
Income reality check
The median salary for Teaching Assistants in Kansas of $30,781 falls in the Low-income band of this framework - roughly ~18% of the U.S. population and ~25% of the global population sit in this band.
Illustrative relative standing for education only - this ladder is a simplified framework, not an official Census, BLS, or World Bank statistical series. Salary figures on Wage Atlas come from official BLS OEWS data.
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| $40,714 | $38,456 | N/A | 6,784,470 | |
| $39,171 | $37,135 | N/A | 2,330,770 | |
| $35,720 | $35,240 | N/A | 162,010 | |
| $35,315 | $34,999 | N/A | 295,460 |
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