Kansas State University

Employees may notice an increase or decrease on Nov. 8 paycheck

Submitted by Payroll

Kansas State University employees may notice an increase or decrease on the paycheck they receive on Friday, Nov. 8.

On June 20, the Kansas Legislature and Gov. Laura Kelly enacted tax rate changes effective for all income received in 2024. The Kansas Department of Revenue, or KDOR, issued new withholding guidance for wages paid on or after July 1. The required programming changes have been completed. The new rates were delivered with the system tax updates implemented on Oct. 13 and with the Nov. 8 paycheck.

Depending on the income withholding elections selected on your most recent K4 — Kansas withholding form — your state income tax may have increased or decreased on the Nov. 8 paycheck. Federal and state income tax elections can be found on the upper right corner of your pay advice paystub. Employees may access their paystub in the "Payroll and Compensation" tile in HRIS under the Employee Self-Service Homepage. Changes to withholdings can be completed using the K4 form available within this same tile.

Important notes:

• Kansas K4 instructions recommend electing Single if you are Married Filing Jointly and your spouse works or has other income. Electing Married when both spouses have income may result in too little Kansas income tax being withheld.
• Employees who are nonresident aliens, or NRA, for income tax purposes cannot change their tax elections until they become resident aliens, or RA, under IRS rules.
• The payroll staff cannot provide tax advice, including how to complete the K4 form.

Available resources:

• Visit the Payroll website where you will find the new State of Kansas withholding rates and tax table.
• A State of Kansas Tax Calculator is available on that KDOR website to estimate the annual income tax liability based on the new rates. You can also use the calculator to estimate how much Kansas income tax you may owe due to the mid-year rate change. To do this calculation, you will need your year-to-date federal taxable gross available on your most recent paystub.

• Fed Taxable Gross is located under the deduction section of the pay advice.
• Rows for the current paycheck and YTD totals are labeled on the far left of the pay advice.
• Note: Federal taxable gross equals Kansas taxable gross for most employees. If you are a KPERS participant, you need to add the before tax KPERS deduction amount to the federal YTD taxable gross amount.

Please share this message within your departments. If you have any questions, please contact the payroll team at payrl@k-state.edu.