The City of Olathe offers a wide variety of competitive benefits for all qualifying employees, including:

• Health (including telehealth options)
  • As part of the City's preventative health program, employees covered by the City's health plan can earn an $300 discount off the cost of employee insurance premiums and earn rewards for participating in annual health screenings. Learn more about preventative health on the LiveWell page.
• Vision
• Dental
• Retirement (Kansas Public Retirement System, Kansas Police & Fireman's Retirement System, and Deferred compensation 457 retirement plans)
• Vacation and Leave
• Educational Reimbursement (up to $2,500 per year for tuition and books)

The City’s great benefits also include access to an onsite clinic operated by Marathon Health that provides care for both physical and mental wellbeing needs for eligible employees. Employees can use this benefit without any fees and without having to take time off.  

Learn more about the City's extensive benefits offerings in the benefits guide.

Employee Perks

Through community partnerships, City of Olathe employees are eligible for a number of great perks across the City:

• Tuition discounts at local universities 
• Cell phone discounts
• Furniture Mall of Kansas discounts
• Garmin device discounts
• Health club discounts
• Orthodontic treatment discounts
• Olathe Chamber of Commerce discounts
• Banking services 
• City computer purchase program
• Event ticket discounts

Holidays

The City recognizes 11.5 paid holidays each year: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents’ Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans’ Day, Thanksgiving, day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve (1/2 day) and Christmas.

Transparency in Coverage Rule

Cigna machine readable files have been made available in response to the federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and includes negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed amounts between health plans and healthcare providers. The machine-readable files are formatted to allow researchers, regulators, and application developers to more easily access and analyze data.