Most sites fix their errors quietly. We publish ours. This page is the complete public record of every data correction on Kultranz: what was wrong, how many pages were affected, how it was fixed, and how the fix was verified. Each entry below stays up permanently, even after the corrected pages have been re-crawled.
Our correction standard is the same one we apply to everything else: named official sources, checked to the cent. See the methodology for how the underlying data is built and the editorial policy for the rules that govern this log.
October 12, 2026: 1,918 stale real-pay figures recomputed across all 20 salary hubs
What was wrong. The “real pay” column on the occupation salary hubs was computed from an older wage vintage than the medians displayed next to it, so the two columns disagreed with each other. Example: the San Diego teacher row showed a median of $105,100, which implies real pay of $93,942 at the metro’s price level (105,100 / 1.119), but the column read $107,117, a figure derived from the previous $119,850 wage basis.
Scope. 1,918 rows across all 20 salary hubs.
The fix. Every row was recomputed as the hub’s own stated formula
(median / (RPP / 100)), so the displayed median and real-pay column can never
disagree again. The hub FAQ claims (leader, runner-up, biggest gap) were
re-derived from the corrected data, and the FAQ generator was committed as
scripts/gen_hub_faqs.py so the snapshot can never silently rot.
Verification. Real pay now equals the hub page’s stated formula on every row, recomputed independently of the original generation run.
October 9, 2026: Missouri, Mississippi, and Ohio 2026 income tax schedules corrected
What was wrong. Three state schedules in the 2026 take-home engine did not match the official rules:
- Missouri was modeled as a flat 2% tax. The official TY2026 schedule is graduated, 0% to 4.7% in $1,348 steps (per the Missouri DOR 2026 withholding formula and Tax Foundation’s 2026 table).
- Mississippi was missing its $10,000 zero bracket; the 4% rate applies only above it.
- Ohio applied its 2.75% rate to all income. Under HB 96 the rate applies only above the $26,050 floor.
Why it mattered. The errors overstated state tax for typical earners in all three states. Several other 2026 take-home calculators were carrying the same wrong schedules at the time.
Scope. The take-home data for all 50 states (9 recomputed salary values in the published table), the Missouri, Mississippi, and Ohio paycheck pages, three Kansas City (MO) salary-page FAQs, and both state-tax-burden comparison tables, which were re-ranked as a result (Ohio moved to #11, Missouri to #22, and Rhode Island entered the ranking at #18).
Verification. Engine outputs were checked against the official state schedules to the cent before publication.
July 20, 2026: broken cost-of-living index on 38 Wichita and New Orleans pages
What was wrong. A broken cost-of-living index (col_index) showed 18 for
Wichita and 26 for New Orleans instead of the real BEA values of 89 and 93. The
bad index produced absurd “real pay” figures, including a $105,630 salary
displayed as $577,213 of buying power.
Scope. 38 live salary pages.
The fix. The index was corrected in the underlying SQLite store for all Wichita and New Orleans rows, and every affected page’s real-pay figure was recomputed from the correct index.
Reporting an error
If a number on any page looks wrong, write to [email protected]. We verify every report against the official source, fix confirmed errors, and add them to this log.