Employment
Major employers are Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Huntington Memorial Hospital, Bank of America, Kaiser Permanente, Pasadena Unified School District, Pasadena City College, Countrywide Credit Industries, City of Pasadena, SBC, and the Ralph M. Parsons Company.
According to the census of 2000, persons 16 years and older were employed as follows: 48% managerial and professional related occupations; 15.7% service occupations; 23.3% sales and office occupations; 5.1% construction, extraction and maintenance occupations; and 7.8% production, transportation and materials moving technology occupations.