Huge management salaries: the tip of government spending iceberg that drives high property taxes

Huge management salaries: the tip of government spending iceberg that drives high property taxes

Huge salaries for the top managers in city and county government are among the factors driving out-of-control property taxes in the State of Kansas. For example, Prairie Village — a small, land-locked community of about 23,000 in the Kansas City Metro paid City Administrator Wesley Jordan $243,390 in 2025. But Jordan has three deputy/assistant administrators under him: Deputy City Administrator Nicole Marie Lee and Assistant City Administrators …