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H&R Block's new oblong headquarters in downtown Kansas City

The economy of the Kansas City metropolitan area is anchored by Kansas City, Missouri, which is the largest city in the state[citation needed] and the 37th largest in the United States. The Kansas City metropolitan area is the 27th largest in the United States, based on the United States Census Bureau's 2004 population estimates. The metro's economy is large and influential to its region.

Companies and employers

Former Sprint world headquarters campus, now T-Mobile US's second headquarters, designed by RMJM Hillier, in Overland Park

The Kansas City metro is the third largest beef-processing city in the US (behind Chicago and Cincinnati), and has the second largest rail network. The area has many factories, manufacturing plants, an official international trade zone, and the most foreign trade zone space in the nation.[1] It has a number of large national and international companies, including these:

Other major regional and national non-corporate employers headquartered and/or located in Kansas City include:

Products

Federal government

The federal government is the largest employer in Kansas City. In the wider metropolitan area, the federal government, either directly or through contracts, employs 41,500 people. The combined annual payroll of these jobs is more than $3 billion.[2]

The largest federal agencies in the Kansas City area by number of permanent employees are these:

The U.S. Postal Service employs more than 6,000 in the Kansas City area. Postal jobs are often counted separately from other federal jobs, because these positions are generally in the excepted service. Employees in these positions cannot earn competitive status or reinstatement rights for traditional federal employment.

Business publications

Kansas City has many business publications. Two of the most prominent are the Kansas City Business Journal (weekly),[3] and Ingram's Magazine (monthly).[4] Many of Kansas City's business scions also frequently appear in the Independent, the local society magazine (weekly),[5] and KC Business Magazine (monthly).[6]

References

  1. ^ "KC SmartPort | Home". kcsmartport.thinkkc.com.
  2. ^ The Kansas City Star. December 10, 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20121213004944/http://www.kansascity.com/2012/12/10/3958568/no-1-employer-uncle-sam-keeps.html. Archived from the original on December 13, 2012. Retrieved February 25, 2021. ((cite news)): Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ Kansas City Business Journal
  4. ^ "Ingram's Magazine". Archived from the original on 2006-02-25. Retrieved 2006-03-10.
  5. ^ "The Independent – Keeping Our Town In The Know Since 1899".
  6. ^ ""KC Business Magazine"". Archived from the original on 2012-08-08. Retrieved 2007-09-07.

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