Editing Overland Park, Kansas (section)

==Economy==
[[File:Sprint-hq2.jpg|thumb|upright=1.75|[[Aspiria|Aspiria Office Complex]] (2009)]]
The [[Tertiary sector of the economy|service sector]] constitutes most of the local economy. Health care, retail trade, professional and technical services, finance and insurance, and information technology are the city's five largest industries.<ref name=Clusters>{{cite web | title = Industry Clusters | publisher = Overland Park Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Council | url = http://www.opedc.org/industry-workforce/industry-clusters/ | access-date = June 2, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140713044003/http://www.opedc.org/industry-workforce/industry-clusters/ | archive-date = July 13, 2014 | url-status = dead }}</ref> Companies with headquarters in the city include [[Black & Veatch]], [[Ash Grove Cement Company]], and [[Compass Minerals]].<ref name=Employers>{{cite web | title = Leading Employers | publisher = Overland Park Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Council | url = http://www.opedc.org/industry-workforce/leading-employers/ | access-date = June 3, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131116075334/http://www.opedc.org/industry-workforce/leading-employers/ | archive-date = November 16, 2013 | url-status = dead }}</ref>  The city seeks to attract technology companies in particular, such as [[Netsmart Technologies]] which relocated its headquarters there in 2011.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/print-edition/2012/02/17/netsmart-technologies-picks-overland.html?page=all | title=Netsmart Technologies picks Overland Park for new headquarters | first=Alyson | last=Raletz | newspaper=Kansas City Business Journal | date=February 17, 2012}}</ref>  Restaurant chain [[Applebee's]] was headquartered in the city from 1993 to 2007.<ref>{{cite news | last = Collison | first = Kevin | title = Applebee's to move headquarters, 390 jobs to Kansas City, Mo. from Lenexa | newspaper = [[The Wichita Eagle]] | date = May 28, 2011 | url = http://www.kansas.com/2011/05/27/1867830/applebees-to-move-headquarters.html | access-date = June 2, 2013}}</ref> It is also home to the Overland Park Xchange building, the 3rd largest office building in the [[Kansas City Metropolitan Area]] totalling 735,000 square feet of office space.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/subscriber-only/2017/10/13/kcs-largest-multitenant-office.html|title = KC's Largest Multitenant Office Buildings}}</ref>

As of 2014, 71.8% of the population over the age of 16 was in the labor force. 0.1% was in the armed forces, and 71.7% was in the civilian labor force with 68.1% being employed and 3.7% unemployed. The composition, by occupation, of the employed civilian labor force was:  53.0% in management, business, science, and arts; 26.2% in sales and office occupations; 11.3% in service occupations; 4.0% in natural resources, construction, and maintenance; 5.5% in production, transportation, and material moving. The three industries employing the largest percentages of the working civilian labor force were:  educational services, health care, and social assistance (22.5%); professional, scientific, management, administrative, and waste management services (17.4%); and retail trade (10.7%).<ref name="wwwcensusgov">{{cite web|title=U.S. Census website|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=July 25, 2016}}</ref> T-Mobile (former Sprint headquarters) is the largest employer in the city followed by [[Shawnee Mission School District]], [[Johnson County Community College]], [[Blue Valley School District]], Black & Veatch, OptumRx, the City of Overland Park, Yellow Corporation, Overland Park Regional Medical Center, and Waddell & Reed.<ref name=Employers/>

The cost of living in Overland Park is below average; compared to a U.S. average of 100, the cost of living index for the city is 88.2.<ref name=CityData/> As of 2014, the median home value in the city was $225,000, the median selected monthly owner cost was $1,712 for housing units with a mortgage and $570 for those without, and the median gross rent was $974.<ref name="wwwcensusgov"/>

It was home to the [[Sprint Corporation]] before its merger with [[T-Mobile US|T-Mobile]] in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://corporateofficedata.com/telecommunications/sprint/|title=Sprint Headquarters and Corporate Office Info &#124; Corporate Office Data}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://companyheadquarter.org/garmin/ |title=Garmin Corporate Office Headquarters & Customer Service Info |date=July 28, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.opus-group.com/Work/AMC-Theatre-Support-Center|title=AMC Theatre Support Center|website=The Opus Group}}</ref>  Part of its former corporate campus was sold in 2019 to a firm named Occidental Management.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Davis|first1=Miranda|last2=Lieberman|first2=Lily|date=July 9, 2019|title=Sprint closes deal to sell Overland Park campus|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2019/07/09/sprint-occidental-management-op-campus-deal-closes.html|access-date=September 22, 2021|website=Kansas City Business Journal}}</ref>  Telephone company [[Embarq]] formerly had its national headquarters in Overland Park before its acquisition by [[CenturyTel]] in 2009; the company still employs several hundred people in [[Gardner, Kansas|Gardner]].

===Top employers===
According to the city's 2016 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,<ref name="2015CAFR">{{cite web|url=http://www.grandview.org/home/showdocument?id=3891|title=Grandview 2015 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report|format=PDF |access-date=February 26, 2017}}</ref> the top employers in the city are:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! #
! Employer
! # of Employees
|-
||1
|[[T-Mobile US|T-Mobile]]
|6,300
|-
|2
|[[Shawnee Mission School District]]
|3,974
|-
|3
|[[Blue Valley USD 229|Blue Valley School District]]
|3,313
|-
|4
|[[Black & Veatch|Black & Veatch Engineering Consultants]]
|2,649
|-
|5
|[[Johnson County Community College]]
|2,377
|-
|6
|[[UnitedHealth Group|OptumRx]]
|2,000
|-
|7
|[[Waddell & Reed|Waddell & Reed Financial]]
|1,350
|-
|8
|[[Overland Park Regional Medical Center]]
|1,200
|-
|9
|City of Overland Park
|1,142
|-
|10
|Empower Retirement
|1,000
|}