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Kansas's minimum wage is $7.25 per hour, effective January 1, 2010, under Kan. Stat. § 44-1204. — Source

Most Kansas workers are covered by the federal FLSA and are owed overtime after 40 hours in a workweek; Kansas's state threshold of 46 hours applies only to employers the FLSA does not cover. — Source

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Kansas Statute § 44-1204 sets an overtime threshold of 46 hours per workweek for non-FLSA-covered employers — four hours above the federal standard — though most Kansas workers are FLSA-covered and follow the 40-hour federal rule.

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Kansas minimum wage
$7.25/hour
Effective 2010-01-01 · source
The headline rate may not apply to every worker. Kansas has worker- or employer-class exceptions to the headline figures. Check the cited sources before relying on them for a specific job or employer type.
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Note: Kansas has worker- and employer-class exceptions, so these tools cannot assume the headline rate applies to every worker. Verify your own situation against the cited sources.

Start hereMinimum Wage$7.25/hr (Kan. Stat. § 44-1203); state law excludes FLSA-covered employment; effective January 1, 2010; no CPI indexing. Practical note: nearly all Kansas workers are covered by FLSA at $7.25; state rate is a floor only for non-FLSA employers.
OvertimeKan. Stat. § 44-1204: 1.5× after **46 hours/week** for non-FLSA-covered employers; for FLSA-covered employers, federal weekly-40 rule applies. Page must present both thresholds and determine which applies.

How Kansas differs

Kansas Statute § 44-1204 sets an overtime threshold of 46 hours per workweek for non-FLSA-covered employers — four hours above the federal standard — though most Kansas workers are FLSA-covered and follow the 40-hour federal rule.

Overtime: Most Kansas workers are covered by the federal FLSA and are owed time-and-a-half after 40 hours in a workweek.Kansas's own statute sets the threshold at 46 hours, but that reaches only employers the FLSA does not cover. Source.