Editing Pleasanton, California (section)

==Economy==
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[[File:Bernal Corporate Park.jpg|alt=|thumb|Bernal Corporate Park]]

Pleasanton experienced a major economic boom starting in the early 1980s, largely associated with the development of a number of [[business park]]s, the largest of which is the [[Hacienda Business Park]]. These host a number of campus-like clusters of low-rise and medium-rise office buildings. Pleasanton has been successful in attracting a number of corporate headquarters, such as those of [[Safeway Inc.|Safeway]], [[Blackhawk Network Holdings]], [[Workday, Inc.|Workday]], [[Simpson Manufacturing Company|Simpson Manufacturing]], [[The Cooper Companies]] and [[Shaklee Corporation|Shaklee]]. Despite an increase in office space vacancy rates in 2000–2004, economic development has remained strong through the middle of the decade.

Pleasanton was also the headquarters of the former [[PeopleSoft, Inc.]] (which was acquired by [[Oracle Corporation]]), Documentum (which was acquired by [[EMC Corporation]]), [[Thoratec]] (now part of [[Abbott Laboratories|Abbott]]), [[E-Loan]] (which was acquired by [[Popular, Inc.|Popular]]), [[Spreckels Sugar Company]] (which was acquired by [[Imperial Sugar|Imperial Holly]]), [[Ross Stores]] (which moved to nearby [[Dublin, California|Dublin]] in 2014), [[Patelco Credit Union]] (also moved to Dublin) and the home loan operation of [[Providian]] (which was acquired by [[Washington Mutual]], itself later acquired by [[JPMorgan Chase]]). Oracle occupies two buildings of the former PeopleSoft campus. In addition, Pleasanton is the site of a large [[AT&T Inc.|AT&T]] campus.

Other companies with major operations in Pleasanton include Hitachi High Technologies America, Inc., [[Cisco Systems]], [[QASource]], [[Sage Software]] (Accpac, etc.), CooperVision, [[Clorox]], Fireside Bank (closed in 2012), [[Roche Applied Science|Roche]], [[BMC Software]], [[Zoho Corporation]], Applied Biosystems, [[EMC Corporation]], Portrait Displays, Inc. and [[Broadcom Inc.]]

In retail operations, Pleasanton has one major regional mall ([[Stoneridge Shopping Center]]) and a number of other shopping centers. In addition to the business parks and retail centers, Pleasanton is known for its downtown, which is home to a number of fine-dining, casual, and ethnic restaurants, specialty retailers, and service businesses. A redesign of Main Street in the 1990s emphasized pedestrian traffic and outdoor dining.

In 2005, the median household income in Pleasanton was $101,022, the highest income for any city with a population between 65,000 and 249,999 people.<ref name="richest midsize"/> Similarly, for 2007, the median household income rose to $113,345, also the highest in the category.<ref name="ccnews" /> According to City-Data.com, the median household income had risen to $121,622 by 2013, compared to a statewide median of $60,190.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.city-data.com/city/Pleasanton-California.html|title=City-Data page for Pleasanton, California|access-date=October 30, 2015}}</ref>

According to the Bay East Association of Realtors, the median price of a detached single family home was $1,795,000 as of August 2021.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bayeast.org/wp-content/uploads/pleasanton_detached.pdf|title=Housing Market Reports|access-date=September 23, 2021}}</ref> According to [[Zillow.com]], the median home value in Pleasanton was $1,500,415 as of September 2021.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zillow.com/pleasanton-ca/home-values/|title=Pleasanton Home Prices & Values|access-date=September 23, 2021}}</ref>

===Top employers===
According to the city, as of July 2024 the top fifteen employers in Pleasanton are:<ref name="employers">{{cite web |date=July 2024 |title=2024 Large Employers (100 or more employees) |url=https://www.cityofpleasantonca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Large-employer-list-100-2024.pdf |access-date = 2024-10-23}}</ref><!-- Document is linked as "Large Employer List" from https://www.cityofpleasantonca.gov/our-government/economic-development/ ; the URL presumably changes annually -->

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! #
! Employer
! Employees
|-
|1
|[[Workday, Inc.|Workday]]
|5,399
|-
|2
|[[Kaiser Permanente]]
|3,019
|-
|3
|[[Pleasanton Unified School District]]
|1,373
|-
|4
|[[Safeway]]
|1,348
|-
|5
|[[Stanford Health Care]] Tri-Valley
|1,124
|-
|6
|[[Veeva Systems]]
|945
|-
|7
|[[Roche Molecular Diagnostics]]
|927
|-
|8
|[[Oracle Corporation]]
|882
|-
|9
|[[10x Genomics]]
|600
|-
|10
|[[Thermo Fisher Scientific|Life Technologies]]
|579
|-
|11
|[[Ellie Mae|ICE Mortgage Technology]]
|548
|-
|12
|SMM Facilities Inc
|442
|-
|13
|[[Blackhawk Network Holdings]]
|383
|-
|14
|[[Clorox|Clorox Services Company]]
|369
|-
|15
|Sensiba San Filippo, LLP
|331
|}