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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 dated official sources and scheduled review.

Statewide requirements and local rules are identified separately. This guide is general information, not legal advice.

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Kansas licensing

Licensing overview

Bounded

No statewide massage therapist license; local credentials may apply

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.

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Regulatory model
No statewide massage therapist license; local credentials may apply
Verified

Compact statewide or local regulatory orientation; detailed legal treatment remains in the licensing record.

Regulator
Kansas local governments; no statewide massage-therapy licensing board identified
Verified

Current state or local authority identified in the licensing record.

Credential
No statewide massage therapist license identified
Verified not applicable

Reviewed authority explicitly identifies no statewide massage credential; local requirements may still apply.

Minimum education
No statewide requirement identified
Verified not applicable

The reviewed no-statewide-credential finding explicitly resolves statewide education non-applicability; local rules may differ.

Examination
Locally required national examination
Bounded

Examination acceptance depends on the reviewed pathway.

Renewal
There is no statewide renewal cycle. Wichita uses a two-year local therapist permit and business-license cycle.
Verified not applicable

No statewide massage credential renewal applies; the orientation may still identify bounded local renewal requirements.

Continuing education
No statewide recurring CE requirement
Verified not applicable

The structured CE reporting period is explicitly not applicable statewide; local or employer requirements may differ.

Education

Massage education in Kansas

Bounded

Legal education requirements, official starting points, and selected MassageData program records are distinct.

Legal entry requirement

No statewide requirement identified

The reviewed no-statewide-credential finding explicitly resolves statewide education non-applicability; local rules may differ.

Official education starting points

Bounded
educationKansas 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.

Selected MassageData program records

Bounded

No individual program record cleared this review. That is not evidence that Kansas has no massage programs.

These are selected records, not a complete school directory. School approval is not the same as massage licensure, accreditation, or a guarantee of outcomes.

Practice and risk

Insurance considerations

Bounded

Legal requirement finding

No statewide massage-practitioner insurance mandate was identified. Local business rules, contracts, venues, and professional risk-management decisions require separate review.

The reviewed sources do not support a universal legal conclusion. General information only—not legal, financial, or coverage advice.

Insurance sources

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.

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?

Continuing education

Legal orientation and official starting points

Bounded

Legal CE orientation

No statewide recurring CE requirement

Verified not applicable

The 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 remain in the licensing record.

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Official CE starting points

Not yet reviewed

No separate official CE starting point cleared this review. That does not resolve the legal CE requirement.

Workforce data

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

Bounded
May 2025 OEWS estimate780

Estimated wage-and-salary jobs

Kansas

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
July 28, 2026
Uncertainty
13.2 percent: BLS-published relative standard error for this state occupation estimate or wage series.

Compensation

Bounded
May 2025 OEWS estimate$24.03/hr

Median hourly wage

Kansas

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
July 28, 2026
Uncertainty
7.5 percent: BLS-published relative standard error for this state occupation estimate or wage series.
May 2025 OEWS estimate$49,990

Median annual wage

Kansas

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
July 28, 2026
Uncertainty
7.5 percent: BLS-published relative standard error for this state occupation estimate or wage series.

Growth and openings

Bounded
2024–2034 long-term projection1,210

Projection base employment

Kansas

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
July 28, 2026
2024–2034 long-term projection1,350

Projected employment

Kansas

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
July 28, 2026
2024–2034 long-term projection140

Projected numeric change

Kansas

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
July 28, 2026
2024–2034 long-term projection11.6%

Projected percentage change

Kansas

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
July 28, 2026
2024–2034 long-term projection170

Projected annual openings

Kansas

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
July 28, 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.

BLS OEWS excludes self-employed workers, which is material in massage therapy.

Workforce source set

Kansas agencies and data

Official resources

Bounded

A selected official starting set, not a complete source ledger.

educationKansas 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.

Verified July 28, 2026

Sources and updates

Reviewed July 28, 2026

Verified

This guide projects 9 distinct official or first-party source links from the governed records. Earliest scheduled review: October 28, 2026.

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Local business, zoning, facility, and professional rules may apply in addition to statewide requirements. Confirm current requirements with the responsible authority before acting.

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