Editing Pasadena, California (section)

===Top employers===
According to the City's 2023 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 30, 2023 |title=City of Pasadena Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for fiscal year ended June 30, 2023 |url=https://www.cityofpasadena.net/finance/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/FY-2023-Annual-Comprehensive-Financial-Report.pdf?v=1736014278706 |access-date= |website=City of Pasadena }}</ref> the top employers in the city are:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! #
! Employer
! # of employees
|-
|1
|[[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]]
|6,709
|-
|2
|[[Kaiser Permanente]]
|6,525
|-
|3
|[[California Institute of Technology]]
|3,815
|-
|4
|[[Huntington Hospital|Huntington Memorial Hospital]]
|3,620
|-
|5
|[[Pasadena City College]]
|2,821
|-
|6
|[[Pasadena Unified School District]]
|2,478
|-
|7
|City of Pasadena
|2,335
|-
|8
|[[ArtCenter College of Design|Art Center College of Design]]
|1,060
|-
|9
|Hathaway-Sycamores
|600
|-
|10
|Pacific Clinics Administration
|272
|}

Other companies based in Pasadena include Idealab, [[Inter-Con Security]], [[Green Dot Corporation]], [[Tetra Tech]], [[Wesco Financial]], [[OpenX (company)|OpenX]], Stark Spirits Distillery, and [[Wetzel's Pretzels]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pasadena-Based International Brand Wetzel's Preztels Experiences Historic Growth – Pasadena Now |url=https://www.pasadenanow.com/main/pasadena-based-international-brand-wetzels-preztels-experiences-historic-growth |access-date=April 11, 2024 |website=www.pasadenanow.com }}</ref> The Los Angeles office of [[China Eastern Airlines]] is also located in Pasadena.<ref>"[http://hk.ceair.com/muovc/main/en_HK/Static_pages/ServiceLocation.html Service Location] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016021442/http://hk.ceair.com/muovc/main/en_HK/Static_pages/ServiceLocation.html |date=October 16, 2012 }}." [[China Eastern Airlines]]. Retrieved on October 20, 2012. "Los Angeles 55 South Lake Avenue, Suite 120, Passadena{{sic}}, CA 91101 U.S.A"</ref>