Kansas Employer Compliance Kit 2027: State Checklist, Deadline Calendar and Excel Tracker

Who it is for

Owners, office managers and bookkeepers who run payroll for employees working in Kansas, from the first hire to the year-end forms.

Not the right fit if

Your employees work outside Kansas: get that state's kit, or the 2027 Employer Compliance Bundle for several states. Not a payroll service, and not a legal review of your policies.

Why it is different

• Built only from our Kansas data files, checked November 2026 against 15 official pages, among them Kansas Department of Labor: Employer Services; Official page; Kansas Department of Labor: New Hire Directory; Kansas Department of Labor: Download posters; U.S. Department of Labor: State Minimum Wage Laws (updated November 5, 2026); U.S. Department of Labor: Minimum Wages for Tipped Employees (revised July 1, 2026); K.S.A. 12-16,130 (Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes); U.S. Department of Labor, Women's Bureau: State Paid Sick Leave Laws (map, as of September 2024), plus NCSL (a vetted secondary source, marked in the kit) where no official page could be read.
• 3 items the official pages didn't state are left out of the checklist and put on a short look-up list with the page to check, never guessed.
• The workbook recalculates with zero formula errors and dates the Kansas new-hire steps for you.

What is inside

• Start here. How to use the kit, the 16 confirmed Kansas rules at a glance and the 3 items to confirm, each with the official page to check: open a state unemployment tax account (Kansas Department of Labor: Employer Services); quarterly wage reports and payments (Kansas Department of Labor: Employer Services); meal breaks for adults (Kansas Department of Labor: Workplace laws and requirements).
• Kansas 2027 checklist. Eight steps from unemployment tax registration to year-end filing, each confirmed rule with its source link and check date, from Kansas Department of Labor, Kansas Department of Labor New Hire Directory, Kansas Division of Workers Compensation. What it confirms: taxable wage base for 2027: Not announced yet when we checked in November 2026; taxable wage base for 2026 (the latest published): $15,100 per employee in 2026; new employer tax rate: 1.75% for a new employer; state income tax withholding: State income tax applies; report each new hire to the state: Within 20 days of the hire; e-Verify for private employers: No state law requires private employers in Kansas to use E-Verify: NCSL's State E-Verify Action summary (secondary source, checked November 2026) doesn't list Kansas among the 22 states that require E-Verify of any employer; minimum wage now (2026): $7.25 an hour; minimum wage change in 2027: $7.25 an hour; no scheduled change in our data; tipped employees: Cash wage of at least $2.13 an hour in 2027, with tips making up the rest; paid sick leave: No statewide paid sick leave law for private employers; rest breaks for adults: no state rule; No state rest-break requirement: Kansas isn't in the US DOL table of state paid rest-period rules (revised January 1, 2023), which says states not listed don't require paid rest periods; breaks for workers under 18: No separate meal-break rule for workers under 18: the US Department of Labor's state meal period table (revised January 1, 2023; checked November 2026) doesn't list Kansas among the 35 jurisdictions with meal periods specifically for minors, so minors follow the adult rule; workers' compensation insurance: Non-agricultural businesses with more than $20,000 in gross annual payroll in a calendar year; final pay when you let someone go: Not later than the next regular payday on which the employee would otherwise have been paid; final pay when an employee quits: Not later than the next regular payday on which the employee would otherwise have been paid; state copies of W-2s and 1099s: When an information return in the 1099 series is filed with the IRS, a copy must also be filed with the Department of Revenue by January 31.
• 2027 deadline calendar. 7 dates our Kansas files state: 2 state W-2 and 1099 filing dates from Kansas Department of Revenue, with weekend dates flagged and a month-by-month planner for your own.
• New hire and pay change checklist. One page per hire, with the report to Kansas Department of Labor New Hire Directory (new hires reported in 20 days) and the I-9 steps, and one per pay change against the $7.25 minimum wage.
• Kansas compliance workbook (Excel). The Kansas dates in a deadline tracker with days left and status, a new-hire sheet that dates each step from the start date (new hires reported in 20 days), and a pay-change sheet that flags any rate below the 2027 floor.