Editing Mountain View, California (section)

==Economy==
[[File:Googleplex HQ (cropped).jpg|thumb|[[Google]] headquarters, [[Googleplex]], is Mountain View's largest employer]]

Mountain View is one of the major cities that make up [[Silicon Valley]], and has many notable Silicon Valley companies either headquartered there or with a large presence. As of 2024, major tech companies such as [[Google]]<ref name="BI" /> and [[Intuit]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Worldwide Office Locations {{!}} Intuit |url=https://www.intuit.com/company/locations/ |access-date=March 30, 2024 |website=www.intuit.com |language=en}}</ref> were headquartered in Mountain View.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cnet.com/news/layoffs-mozilla-taiwan-changes-firefox-work-in-asia/ |title=Layoffs strike as Firefox's Mozilla reworks Asian operations |author=Stephen Shankland |date=January 18, 2018 |website=[[CNET]] |access-date=February 18, 2018}}</ref>

After voting to increase the minimum wage incrementally in 2015, in December 2017, the Mountain View City Council implemented a mandatory $15 minimum wage, to apply to employees who work two or more hours a week.<ref name="M" /> At the start of 2018, Mountain View raised its minimum wage to $15.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sanjoseinside.com/2018/01/02/minimum-wage-increases-to-13-50-in-san-jose-15-in-sunnyvale-and-mountain-view/ |title=Minimum Wage Increases to $13.50 in San Jose, $15 in Sunnyvale and Mountain View |author=Jennifer Wadsworth |date=January 2, 2018 |publisher=San Jose Inside |access-date=December 31, 2018}}</ref> Starting on January 1, 2019, the minimum wage was to be "adjusted annually based on the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose regional Consumer Price Index."<ref name="M">{{cite news |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/12/30/mountain-view-minimum-wage-reaches-15-an-hour-on-monday/ |title=Mountain View: Minimum wage reaches $15 an hour on Monday |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= December 31, 2017|newspaper=[[Mercury News]] |access-date=February 18, 2018 }}</ref>  A proposal to slow down the rate of the wage increases by a year<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.mv-voice.com/news/2018/12/04/city-could-slow-down-minimum-wage-increases |title=City could slow down minimum wage increases |author=Mark Noack |date=December 4, 2018 |newspaper=Mountain View Voice |access-date=December 31, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/12/03/mountain-view-to-consider-freezing-minimum-hourly-wage-at-15-for-next-year/ |title=Mountain View to consider freezing minimum hourly wage at $15 for next year |author=Kevin Kelly |date=December 4, 2018 |newspaper=[[Mercury News]] |access-date=December 31, 2018}}</ref> was defeated in a City Council meeting on December 4, 2018.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.mv-voice.com/news/2018/12/05/plan-to-delay-minimum-wage-hike-defeated |title=Plan to delay minimum-wage hike defeated |author=Mark Noack |date=December 5, 2018 |newspaper=[[Mountain View Voice]] |access-date=December 31, 2018}}</ref> Subsequently, on December 30, 2018, it was announced that Mountain View's minimum wage would rise to $15.65 on January 1, 2019, with the increase delayed by one year for companies with 25 or fewer employees.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/minimum-wage-goes-up-in-california-on-jan-1-2019/1680243855|title=Minimum wage goes up in California on Jan. 1, 2019|last=Seldon|first=Aja|date=December 31, 2018|publisher=KRON|access-date=December 31, 2018}}</ref> As of January 2024, the minimum wage in Mountain View is $18.75 per hour.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 29, 2023 |title=Minimum Wage in Mountain View will be $18.75 for 2024 |url=https://www.mountainview.gov/Home/Components/News/News/758/284 |access-date=March 30, 2024}}</ref>

===Top employers===
According to the city's 2024 [[annual comprehensive financial report]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mountainview.gov/our-city/departments/finance-and-administrative-services/accounting |title=Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2024 |publisher=City of Mountain View, California |format=[[PDF]] |page=189 |access-date=February 8, 2025}}</ref> the largest employers in the city are:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! #
! Employer
! # of Employees
! Percentage
|-
| 1
| [[Google LLC]]
| 24,700
| 20.4%
|-
| 2
| [[El Camino Hospital]]
| 3,400
| 2.8%
|-
| 3
| [[Intuit]]
| 3,200
| 2.6%
|-
| 4
| [[LinkedIn]]
| 2,500
| 2.1%
|-
| 5
| [[Microsoft]]
| 2,300
| 1.9%
|-
| 6
| [[Waymo]]
| 1,600
| 1.3%
|-
| 7
| [[Palo Alto Medical Foundation|Palo Alto]]/[[Sutter Health]]
| 1,200
| 1.0%
|-
| 8
| [[Bytedance]]
| 1,000
| 0.8%
|-
| 8
| [[Nuro]]
| 1,000
| 0.8%
|-
| 10
| [[Wipro]]
| 900
| 0.7%
|-
|—
|'''Total employers'''
|'''41,800'''
|'''34.6%'''
|}