page_title: Hayward, California
section_title: Top employers
hierarchical_section_title: Hayward, California / Economy / Top employers
caption_attribution_description: English: Service sign for Hayward, along Route 92 (Jackson Blvd.), Hayward, California
context_page_description: Hayward is a city located in Alameda County, California in the East Bay subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area. With a 2019 population of 159,203, Hayward is the sixth largest city in the Bay Area and the third largest in Alameda County. Hayward was ranked as the 32nd most populous municipality in California. It is included in the San Francisco–Oakland–Fremont Metropolitan Statistical Area by the US Census. It is located primarily between Castro Valley and Union City, and lies at the eastern terminus of the San Mateo–Hayward Bridge. The city was devastated early in its history by the 1868 Hayward earthquake. From the early 20th century until the beginning of the 1980s, Hayward's economy was dominated by its now defunct food canning and salt production industries.
context_section_description: According to the city's 2015 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city were (in alphabetical order):
  † indicates employers wholly located or headquartered in Hayward
  Two businesses which had significant employment in fiscal year 2006, Mervyns (1,300), and Pacific Bell (940), no longer operate in Hayward.
caption: Hayward service organizations
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