Regional Employers
Numerous Fortune 1,000 companies operating in the area. Select other companies headquartered in the Kansas City area include AMC, American Century, Black & Veatch, Burns & McDonnell, Cerner Corporation, Evergy, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Ferrellgas Partners, Garmin International, H&R Block, Hallmark Cards, JE Dunn Construction, Kansas City Southern, Lockton Companies, Populous, Russell Stover Chocolates, ScriptPro, Seaboard Corporation, T-Mobile (Sprint Legacy), USDA (IRS & NIFA), Waddell & Reed, Water.org and YRC Worldwide.
To view the KC region's major employers, please make selections from the categories listed below.
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| Name |
Description |
Industry |
Employees |
Contact Center Employees |
Distribution Center Employees |
| Veterans United |
Home loans |
Financial Services |
219 |
0 |
0 |
| Viagio Technologies |
Technology services |
Information Technology |
34 |
0 |
0 |
| Viracor Eurofins |
Clinical specialty lab |
Bioscience |
520 |
0 |
0 |
| Virbac SA |
Animal health pharmaceuticals distribution |
Bioscience, Distribution |
10 |
0 |
10 |
| Visit KC |
Kansas City's hospitality sales and marketing organization |
Other |
38 |
0 |
0 |
| Vituity |
Customer service center |
Contact Centers |
65 |
65 |
0 |
| VMLY&R |
Web design, media |
Information Technology |
618 |
0 |
0 |
| Vytelle |
In vitro fertilization for livestock (Hdq.) |
Bioscience, Headquarters |
10 |
0 |
0 |
| Wachter Electric Company Wachter Network Services |
Service provider of electrical, data, communications, and automation (Hdq.) |
Headquarters |
169 |
0 |
0 |
| Wagner Logistics |
Trucking, warehousing, logistics (Hdq.) |
Distribution, Headquarters |
152 |
0 |
100 |
| Walmart |
Retailer distribution center |
Distribution |
2,960 |
0 |
0 |
| Walter P. Moore and Associates, Inc. |
Structural and civil engineering firm |
Architectural Engineering |
34 |
0 |
0 |
| Washburn University |
Higher education |
Other |
764 |
0 |
0 |
| WellSky |
Healthcare information systems (Hdq.) |
Bioscience, Headquarters, Information Technology |
500 |
0 |
0 |
| Westin Kansas City at Crown Center |
Hotel |
Other |
93 |
0 |
0 |
| Westlake Hardware, Inc. |
Retailer shared service center |
Distribution, Other |
150 |
0 |
50 |
| WestRock |
Corrugated & specialty containers mfg. |
Manufacturing |
170 |
0 |
0 |
| Whiting-Turner Contracting Company |
Construction management, general contract, and design-build services |
Architectural Engineering |
100 |
0 |
0 |
| William Jewell College |
Higher education |
Other |
210 |
0 |
0 |
| WireCo World Group |
Wire rope mfg. (Hdq.) |
Headquarters |
100 |
0 |
0 |
DEFINING THE GREATER KC METRO AREA
Kansas City is a Missouri/Kansas bi-state metropolitan area. All statistical references made to Kansas City Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) include the counties of Bates, Caldwell, Cass, Clay, Clinton, Jackson, Lafayette, Platte and Ray in Missouri, and Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and Wyandotte counties in Kansas. The greater Kansas City area also includes the adjoining Lawrence, KS, St. Joseph, MO, and Topeka, KS MSAs, as well as the Atchison, KS, Chillicothe, MO, Ottawa, KS, and Warrensburg, MO areas.