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# Kansas paid family and sick leave 2026

SB 376 failed. No state mandate. Your offer letter is the policy.

Last reviewed 30 May 2026 · Kansas guide

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Kansas has **no state-mandated paid family leave and no state-mandated paid sick leave** as of 2026. [Senate Bill 376](https://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/measures/sb376/) (2024 session), the state's most recent paid leave proposal, did not advance out of committee. The only statutory protection in Kansas is **federal FMLA** ([29 U.S.C. § 2601](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fmla)), which provides **12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave** per year and applies only to employers with **50 or more employees within a 75-mile radius**. Below that threshold, no federal or state paid leave law applies to private Kansas employers. Any paid leave a Kansas employee receives comes from voluntary employer policy. Teamed structures and administers paid leave policies for Kansas hires through the offer letter and payroll, at **from $599 per employee per month**, Zero FX, starting rate.

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## Does Kansas have a paid family leave law?

Kansas Senate Bill 376, introduced in the 2024 legislative session, was the state's most recent attempt to create a paid family leave programme. It did not advance out of committee, and with a Republican legislative trifecta in place after the 2024 elections, no comparable bill is on the near-term legislative calendar.

SB 376 proposed a state-funded paid family and medical leave programme for Kansas workers, financed through a payroll contribution shared between employers and employees. The Kansas Senate Committee on Commerce did not move it forward. The political environment for new payroll mandates in Kansas remains unfavourable through the current legislative cycle, and Kansas employers should plan around a federal FMLA-only baseline for the foreseeable future.

Kansas is among the majority of US states with no state-level paid family leave programme. Unlike [California](/country-hiring-guides/united-states/california/paid-family-and-sick-leave), New York, Washington, or Massachusetts, Kansas has not enacted a state PFL insurance scheme funded by payroll deductions. No Kansas municipality has passed a paid family leave ordinance either.

Federal law has not filled this gap. As of 30 May 2026, no enacted federal paid family leave mandate applies to private employers in Kansas. Various Paid Leave for All bills have advanced in Congress but none is law.

Your offer letter is Kansas's paid leave policy.

## Does Kansas have a paid sick leave requirement?

Kansas has no paid sick leave requirement. There is no state statute, no enforceable local ordinance, and no federal mandate for private employers as of 2026.

This makes Kansas one of the states where paid sick leave is entirely voluntary. Roughly 20 states and Washington DC have enacted mandatory paid sick leave laws; Kansas is not among them. The Kansas legislature has considered paid sick leave proposals alongside the SB 376 family leave push, but none has passed.

Unlike some other no-mandate states, Kansas does not have an explicit statewide preemption statute blocking cities from enacting paid sick leave ordinances. For a comparison with a similarly positioned state, see the [Alabama paid family and sick leave guide](/country-hiring-guides/united-states/alabama/paid-family-and-sick-leave). However, no Kansas city or county has a paid sick leave requirement currently in force. Wichita, Overland Park, and Kansas City, Kansas are all without any local paid sick leave floor as of 2026.

What this means in practice: Kansas employers set their own sick-day policy. The market benchmark for professional and technical roles in Kansas is 5 to 10 days of paid sick leave per year, or combined PTO pools of 15 to 20 days. Aerospace employers in the Wichita corridor, Spirit AeroSystems, Textron Aviation, and HEICO among them, and tech-sector employers in the Overland Park metro have moved toward more generous voluntary policies to compete nationally for skilled workers.

Sick leave you offer voluntarily must be administered consistently. Document the policy, apply it uniformly, and Teamed handles the administration through payroll.

## Does federal FMLA apply to Kansas employers?

Federal FMLA applies to Kansas employers with **50 or more employees within a 75-mile radius**. Eligible employees need 12 months of tenure and 1,250 hours in the prior year to qualify for 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave.

Federal FMLA at a glance, Kansas

- Employer threshold 50+ employees within 75 miles
- Employee eligibility 12 months tenure + 1,250 hours/year
- Duration 12 weeks / year (26 weeks for military caregiver)
- Pay Unpaid (employer may require concurrent PTO use)
- Job protection Return to same or equivalent role
- Reasons Serious health condition, birth/adoption, qualifying military exigency
- Notice required 30 days advance where foreseeable
- State supplement None. FMLA is the ceiling and the floor

Source: [29 U.S.C. § 2601 (FMLA)](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fmla) · [29 CFR Part 825](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-29/subtitle-B/chapter-V/subchapter-C/part-825)

The 75-mile count includes all employees at locations within 75 miles of the work site, not just your specific Kansas office. The [DOL Wage and Hour Division](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fmla) sets out the counting rules under [29 CFR Part 825](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-29/subtitle-B/chapter-V/subchapter-C/part-825). If you have 30 Kansas employees and 25 employees at a facility across the state line in Missouri or Oklahoma, you may still clear the 50-employee threshold depending on the geography.

FMLA is unpaid but it's not cost-free. You're required to maintain group health insurance coverage during leave at the same terms as if the employee were working, and to restore the employee to the same or an equivalent position on return. Managing the paperwork, benefit continuation, and the return-to-work coordination is where smaller Kansas employers typically run into problems. An actual person, not a chatbot or a pooled queue, handles that process so you don't have to build a standalone FMLA compliance function.

### What happens below 50 employees?

Below the FMLA threshold, Kansas employers have no statutory leave obligation beyond what they've promised in the offer letter. No federal law, no state law. What you write into the employment contract or handbook is what you owe. You can design a policy that fits your business, and a Teamed employment specialist can advise on market benchmarks so your Kansas offer stays competitive without over-committing.

## Is there a federal paid leave law on the way?

No enacted federal paid leave law covers Kansas private employers as of 30 May 2026. The Paid Leave for All Workers Act and related bills have not passed either chamber of Congress.

Multiple paid leave proposals have been introduced in recent sessions. The most substantive is the [Paid Leave for All Workers Act](https://www.congress.gov/search?q=%22Paid+Leave+for+All+Workers+Act%22), which would establish a federal paid family and medical leave programme. As of this writing it remains in committee and has not been enacted.

Federal employees have their own track: the **Federal Employees Paid Leave Act (2020)** gave civilian federal employees up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave. This does not apply to private sector workers in Kansas or anywhere else.

Kansas employers with distributed teams should monitor federal developments, particularly if headcount crosses 50. When a federal paid leave mandate does pass, the 50-employee FMLA threshold is the likely administrative anchor point. Teamed monitors legislative changes and updates payroll configurations across all US states it administers. Your Kansas payroll doesn't require a policy change today, but the offer letter should be drafted with flexibility for federal compliance built in. You can [talk to an expert](https://www.teamed.global/contact) about future-proofing your Kansas offer letters now.

When federal paid leave legislation passes, Teamed updates payroll configurations across all administered US states. You don't track it state by state.

## What paid leave do Kansas employers typically offer?

Kansas market norms run at 10 to 15 days of PTO for professional roles, with 5 to 8 additional days of company-paid short-term disability for medical absences longer than 1 to 3 days.

Aerospace and aviation employers in the Wichita metro, Kansas's largest employment cluster, have increasingly matched national professional benchmarks on voluntary leave to compete for engineers and skilled technicians. Remote-first and tech-sector employers in the Overland Park and Kansas City area often match the higher end of voluntary PTO ranges because they're competing nationally for talent rather than locally.

| Leave type | Kansas statutory minimum | Market norm (professional roles) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Paid family leave | None | 4 to 12 weeks voluntary |
| Paid sick leave | None | 5 to 10 days/year or PTO pool |
| Annual PTO | None | 10 to 20 days/year |
| Short-term disability | None | 60% to 100% of salary for 30 to 90 days |
| FMLA (unpaid) | 12 weeks (at 50+ employees only) | Often topped up voluntarily |

The pattern with Kansas hires at tech and financial services companies: they expect national policy benchmarks, not local ones. If your California or Colorado employees get 12 weeks of paid parental leave, your Kansas hire expects the same. Teamed's offer-letter templates account for this. Use the [Employer Cost Calculator](https://www.teamed.global/tools/employer-cost) to model the total cost of a Kansas hire including any voluntary leave top-up. The policy you write becomes the policy Teamed administers.

One structural advantage of using an [EOR](/employer-of-record) in Kansas: because Kansas has no state PFL premium, unlike [California](/country-hiring-guides/united-states/california/paid-family-and-sick-leave) at 1.1% SDI or [Colorado](/country-hiring-guides/united-states/colorado/paid-family-and-sick-leave)'s 0.88% FAMLI contribution, the voluntary paid leave benefit you offer costs exactly what you choose to fund. No state tax contribution to calculate, no state fund to register with, no quarterly filing for a leave scheme. The cost is your policy, nothing else.

What Teamed charges for Kansas

from $599 / employee / month starting rate · Zero FX

You pay **from $599 per employee per month**, flat. No setup fee, no exit fee, no FX mark-up. Statutory costs pass through at cost, itemised on every invoice. Kansas has no state PFL premium and no state disability insurance tax. The leave policy you write is the entire benefit cost. Teamed administers the offer letter, manages FMLA paperwork at the 50-employee threshold, and handles payroll for Kansas's two-bracket income tax (5.20% and 5.58%) and $15,100 UI wage base on one platform. See [Kansas state income tax and unemployment insurance](/country-hiring-guides/united-states/kansas/state-income-tax-and-unemployment-insurance) for the full payroll breakdown.

EOR is the right model until it isn't. When your Kansas headcount crosses the point where your own entity makes financial sense, a real human on the Teamed team tells you. When the model no longer fits, you graduate to entity on one platform, payroll continuous, offer letter terms preserved. Most EOR providers won't tell you the crossover point. We will.

### Related guides

- [Hiring in the United States, overview](/country-hiring-guides/united-states)
- [Kansas overview](/country-hiring-guides/united-states/kansas)
- [Kansas termination law and at-will exceptions](/country-hiring-guides/united-states/kansas/termination-law-and-at-will-exceptions)
- [Kansas wages and overtime](/country-hiring-guides/united-states/kansas/wage-overtime-and-meal-break-law)
- [Kansas worker classification](/country-hiring-guides/united-states/kansas/worker-classification-state-test)
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- [Employer of Record overview](/employer-of-record)
- [Pricing: Zero FX Fixed](/pricing)
- [EOR vs Entity Crossover Calculator](https://www.teamed.global/tools/crossover-calculator)

Senate Bill 376 died in committee in 2024. No state paid leave, no paid sick leave, no local ordinance in Kansas.  
Below 50 employees the FMLA floor doesn't apply either. Your offer letter is the policy.  
Get that letter right and the rest is administration. That part is ours.

Tom Price-Daniel · Co-founder, Teamed

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