Minimum education
No statewide requirement identified
The reviewed no-statewide-credential finding explicitly resolves statewide education non-applicability; local rules may differ.
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Kansas State Guide
Massage Therapy in Kansas
Explore Kansas massage licensing requirements, insurance considerations, continuing education, workforce data, and official resources, with links to official sources.
Statewide requirements and local rules are identified separately. This guide is general information, not legal advice.
- Regulator
- Kansas local governments; no statewide massage-therapy licensing board identified
- Verified
- Credential
- No statewide massage therapist license identified
- Verified not applicable
- Reviewed authority explicitly identifies no statewide massage credential; local requirements may still apply.
KS · main-state atlas plateKansas
Locator · same geometry as the atlas
01 · Licensing
No statewide massage therapist license; local credentials may apply
VerifiedOpen the full record →
Kansas does not issue a statewide massage license under the reviewed law. Municipal or county requirements may apply. Wichita is one example, not a complete local inventory; practitioners must check the city and county where services will be performed.
Renewal
There is no statewide renewal cycle. Wichita uses a two-year local therapist permit and business-license cycle.
No statewide massage credential renewal applies; the orientation may still identify bounded local renewal requirements.
Continuing education
No statewide recurring CE requirement
The structured CE reporting period is explicitly not applicable statewide; local or employer requirements may differ.
Entry
Bounded
Examination — Locally required national examination
Examination acceptance depends on the reviewed pathway.
Verified
Additional requirements — No statewide massage-specific practitioner insurance requirement was identified; local business rules, contracts, or risk-management choices may still matter.
From the licensing record
Renewal and continuing education
Verified
Required subjects — No statewide massage-specific CE subjects apply.
From the licensing record
Verified
Carryover — No statewide massage CE carryover rule applies.
From the licensing record
Verified
Documentation — Maintain the records required by the issuing local government, employer, insurer, or voluntary credential.
From the licensing record
Scope, title and advertising
Verified
Protected titles — No statewide massage-therapist title protection was identified; local ordinances may regulate titles and advertising.
From the licensing record
02 · Education
Massage education in Kansas
Bounded
Legal education requirements, official starting points, and selected MassageData program records are distinct.
See the Kansas school records and official lists →No individual program record cleared this review. That is not evidence that Kansas has no massage programs.
Legal entry requirement
No statewide requirement identified
Verified not applicableThe reviewed no-statewide-credential finding explicitly resolves statewide education non-applicability; local rules may differ.
Review the detailed licensing pathway →Official starting point
Kansas approved private postsecondary institutions
The Kansas Board of Regents publishes the current approved private and out-of-state institution list and separately explains annual authorization. The list includes massage education but is not a massage-board approval list.
Open official resource ↗Before enrolling
School approval is not the same as massage licensure, accreditation, or a guarantee of outcomes.
03 · Insurance
Insurance considerations
Bounded
No statewide massage-practitioner insurance mandate was identified. Local business rules, contracts, venues, and professional risk-management decisions require separate review.
Limits of this finding
The reviewed sources do not support a universal legal conclusion. General information only—not legal, financial, or coverage advice.
Professional risk context
Separate the legal finding from prudent professional risk management; verify covered modalities, exclusions, defense costs, limits, and policy dates.
Premises, property, employment, cyber, vehicle, and other business exposures are distinct from professional liability and require policy-specific review.
- Do not infer a legal insurance mandate from common professional practice.
- Recheck the linked licensing record and the intended practice address.
- Kansas Statutes Annotated 65-2872 — Healing-Arts Exclusions Accessed October 6, 2026
- City of Wichita — Massage Therapy Licensing and Ordinance Resources Accessed October 6, 2026
Questions for an insurer
- Does the policy satisfy any state or local requirement that applies to this practice?
- Which modalities, locations, entities, and workers are covered?
- Are defense costs inside or outside the stated limits?
04 · Continuing education
Legal orientation and official starting points
Bounded
Legal CE orientation
No statewide recurring CE requirement
Verified not applicableThe structured CE reporting period is explicitly not applicable statewide; local or employer requirements may differ.
Use official starting points to explore continuing-education resources in Kansas. Legal renewal and continuing-education requirements are on Kansas's CE and renewal page.
See detailed Kansas renewal and CE requirements →Compare Kansas CE and renewal with other states →Official CE starting points
Not yet reviewedNo separate official CE starting point cleared this review. That does not resolve the legal CE requirement.
05 · Workforce
Kansas workforce outlook
Bounded
BLS May 2025 OEWS estimates 780 wage-and-salary massage therapist jobs in Kansas; this is not a license count or practitioner census.
Employment
Bounded780
Estimated wage-and-salary jobs
Definition, limits, and sources
- Definition
- BLS OEWS estimate of massage therapist jobs in Kansas in May 2025.
- Method
- BLS OEWS state estimate for SOC 31-9011, Massage Therapists, retrieved from the official BLS public data API.
- Limitation
- OEWS estimates wage-and-salary jobs, excludes self-employed workers, and is not a license count or practitioner census.
- Comparability
- Compare only with the same occupation, measure, geography level, and May 2025 OEWS vintage.
- Observed or accessed
- October 6, 2026
- Uncertainty
- 13.2 percent: BLS-published relative standard error for this state occupation estimate or wage series.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Public Data API — May 2025 OEWS State Series Accessed October 6, 2026
- BLS OEWS May 2025 Methodology Accessed July 28, 2026
Compensation
Bounded$24.03/hr
Median hourly wage
Definition, limits, and sources
- Definition
- BLS OEWS median hourly wage for massage therapist jobs in Kansas in May 2025.
- Method
- BLS OEWS state estimate for SOC 31-9011, Massage Therapists, retrieved from the official BLS public data API.
- Limitation
- OEWS estimates wage-and-salary jobs, excludes self-employed workers, and is not a license count or practitioner census.
- Comparability
- Compare only with the same occupation, measure, geography level, and May 2025 OEWS vintage.
- Observed or accessed
- October 6, 2026
- Uncertainty
- 7.5 percent: BLS-published relative standard error for this state occupation estimate or wage series.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Public Data API — May 2025 OEWS State Series Accessed October 6, 2026
- BLS OEWS May 2025 Methodology Accessed July 28, 2026
$49,990
Median annual wage
Definition, limits, and sources
- Definition
- BLS OEWS median annual wage for massage therapist jobs in Kansas in May 2025.
- Method
- BLS OEWS state estimate for SOC 31-9011, Massage Therapists, retrieved from the official BLS public data API.
- Limitation
- OEWS estimates wage-and-salary jobs, excludes self-employed workers, and is not a license count or practitioner census.
- Comparability
- Compare only with the same occupation, measure, geography level, and May 2025 OEWS vintage.
- Observed or accessed
- October 6, 2026
- Uncertainty
- 7.5 percent: BLS-published relative standard error for this state occupation estimate or wage series.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Public Data API — May 2025 OEWS State Series Accessed October 6, 2026
- BLS OEWS May 2025 Methodology Accessed July 28, 2026
Growth and openings
Bounded1,210
Projection base employment
Definition, limits, and sources
- Definition
- Reported 2024 base employment in the state long-term projection.
- Method
- State-submitted long-term occupation projection distributed through the Projections Managing Partnership system sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor.
- Limitation
- Projection employment coverage differs from OEWS. Published endpoints are rounded, so the reported numeric and percentage changes must not be recomputed from rounded endpoint values.
- Comparability
- Compare only within the same state's 2024–2034 projection series and measure; do not equate projection employment with OEWS employment.
- Observed or accessed
- October 5, 2026
- Projections Central — 2024–2034 Long-Term Occupational Projections Accessed October 5, 2026
1,350
Projected employment
Definition, limits, and sources
- Definition
- Reported 2034 employment in the state long-term projection.
- Method
- State-submitted long-term occupation projection distributed through the Projections Managing Partnership system sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor.
- Limitation
- Projection employment coverage differs from OEWS. Published endpoints are rounded, so the reported numeric and percentage changes must not be recomputed from rounded endpoint values.
- Comparability
- Compare only within the same state's 2024–2034 projection series and measure; do not equate projection employment with OEWS employment.
- Observed or accessed
- October 5, 2026
- Projections Central — 2024–2034 Long-Term Occupational Projections Accessed October 5, 2026
140
Projected numeric change
Definition, limits, and sources
- Definition
- State-reported numeric employment change across the 2024–2034 projection period.
- Method
- State-submitted long-term occupation projection distributed through the Projections Managing Partnership system sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor.
- Limitation
- Projection employment coverage differs from OEWS. Published endpoints are rounded, so the reported numeric and percentage changes must not be recomputed from rounded endpoint values.
- Comparability
- Compare only within the same state's 2024–2034 projection series and measure; do not equate projection employment with OEWS employment.
- Observed or accessed
- October 5, 2026
- Projections Central — 2024–2034 Long-Term Occupational Projections Accessed October 5, 2026
11.6%
Projected percentage change
Definition, limits, and sources
- Definition
- State-reported percentage employment change across the 2024–2034 projection period.
- Method
- State-submitted long-term occupation projection distributed through the Projections Managing Partnership system sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor.
- Limitation
- Projection employment coverage differs from OEWS. Published endpoints are rounded, so the reported numeric and percentage changes must not be recomputed from rounded endpoint values.
- Comparability
- Compare only within the same state's 2024–2034 projection series and measure; do not equate projection employment with OEWS employment.
- Observed or accessed
- October 5, 2026
- Projections Central — 2024–2034 Long-Term Occupational Projections Accessed October 5, 2026
170
Projected annual openings
Definition, limits, and sources
- Definition
- State-reported average annual openings, including growth, exits, and occupational transfers.
- Method
- State-submitted long-term occupation projection distributed through the Projections Managing Partnership system sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor.
- Limitation
- Projection employment coverage differs from OEWS. Published endpoints are rounded, so the reported numeric and percentage changes must not be recomputed from rounded endpoint values.
- Comparability
- Compare only within the same state's 2024–2034 projection series and measure; do not equate projection employment with OEWS employment.
- Observed or accessed
- October 5, 2026
- Projections Central — 2024–2034 Long-Term Occupational Projections Accessed October 5, 2026
Population universe
OEWS measures wage-and-salary jobs. Projections Central distributes state long-term occupational projections; its base and projected employment universe is not assumed to match OEWS.
Self-employment
BLS OEWS excludes self-employed workers, which is material in massage therapy.
Workforce source set
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Public Data API — May 2025 OEWS State Series Accessed October 6, 2026
- BLS OEWS May 2025 Methodology Accessed July 28, 2026
- Projections Central — 2024–2034 Long-Term Occupational Projections Accessed October 5, 2026
06 · Resources
Official resources
BoundedEvery route leaves MassageData.
A selected official starting set, not a complete source ledger.
07 · Method
How this guide is made
Every field on this page carries a knowledge state, and every state is written as a word before it is drawn as a colour.
- Verified
- We checked the cited source on the stated date and the requirement exists as published. The date is the claim: it says when we looked, not that the rule is permanent.
- Verified not applicable
- We checked and there is no such requirement, or the question does not apply in this jurisdiction. This is a complete answer carrying the same weight as a value, not a gap where one is missing.
- Bounded
- We know part of the answer and can say exactly where our knowledge stops. The boundary is stated in words and the fuller source is linked. A bounded finding is the edge of what we know, never an error.
- Not yet reviewed
- Queued, with nothing asserted yet. No value is shown before a record is drafted and sourced, because an empty row is more honest than a guessed one.
What this guide does not determine
Local business, zoning, facility, and professional rules may apply in addition to statewide requirements. Confirm current requirements with the responsible authority before acting.
Sources and reviewBounded
This guide projects 9 distinct official or first-party source links from the governed records. Reviewed July 28, 2026.