It sounds like it is an error on the part of your employer's payroll department. The state withholding should definitely be determined based on your state wages as opposed to the federal wages.
Contact your payroll department and ask them to make the change so that you don't owe tax each year on this difference due to the 401(k) contributions. I'm sure it's just a click of the mouse to make the change in their systems.
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