That sounds right.
It’s good consistent damage but there are others who can spike higher. An archer inquisitor can apply bane 5 rounds per day with archery and meaningfully exceed that. A gunslinger applying dexterity to damage can surpass that with rapid shot while being more accurate from a longer distance. Even a fighter archer at that level comes close if built right, with his higher accuracy and weapon specialization per arrow.
You also have to remember that the weapon users can get magic weapon bonuses. Their bows can be flaming and their ammunition made of special materials.
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You seem to be correct in all the kineticist mechanics.
As Melkiador said, it's well within scale. For other ranged attackers Rapid Shot (and later Manyshot) means more attacks, there are plenty of ways to boost damage as well. Heck, on the melee side an 18 strength 5th level barbarian with a greatsword will be able to move and still attack with +9 (2d6+15/19-20x2). And that's with no feats other than power attack, or enchantments to improve that.
What is the rest of your party playing? There are plenty of classes or builds that aren't going to do as much damage as your kineticist. But that is the nature of the class specializations, not necessarily that they (or you) are doing anything wrong.
Just to make sure we don't get too down on kineticists, they are pretty great at being versatile. They can swap from melee to ranged to area damage with very little investment. Probably the best switch hitters in the game.
Your ranger should be close to your ranged damage per round, but will get better when he gets the instant enemy spell
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The rest of the party is a drunken monk, a cleric and a bow using ranger. But thanks for the answers! Glad to know I've been doing it right when I first picked up the class trying to understand it melted my mind a bit.
What is the rest of your party playing? There are plenty of classes or builds that aren't going to do as much damage as your kineticist. But that is the nature of the class specializations, not necessarily that they (or you) are doing anything wrong.
I've said this many times before, but the kineticist melts everyone's brain the first couple of times they read through it. The mechanical design is very clever. Perhaps slightly too clever as it takes a lot of study to understand how the various bits fit together. Kudos for understanding it so well by this point.
Class comparisons are always tricky, especially since not every class gets a comparable feature at the same level. By which I mean you just got Metakinesis this level, which boosted your damage quite a bit. Next level your ranger friend will get an iterative attack and will be able to take Manyshot, which will boost his damage quite a bit. The level after that (7), you get composite blasts. . . etc. etc.