Your Johnson County tax dollars pay for salaries of county employees, from sheriff’s deputies and engineers to librarians and landscapers. But who makes the most?
In 2025, 912 county employees were paid more than $100,000 a year. The Kansas county had 632,276 residents in 2024, according to a Census estimate, and contains municipalities like Overland Park, Olathe, Shawnee, Lenexa, Leawood, Gardner and Prairie Village.
Governments are required by law to share how much they pay their employees. The Kansas City Star received salary information from Johnson County through a Kansas Open Records Act request…