Matt Mahan (Democratic) has been Mayor of San Jose since 1 Jan 2023. In Aug 2026 the unemployment rate was 4.4% of the labour force, 1.8 percentage points higher than when Matt Mahan took office in January 2023, while California's rose 0.7 percentage points. Among the 106 cities with a year or more of figures, San Jose ranks 52nd on the fall in violent crime and 107th of 117 on the fall in unemployment. Over the same months California's average hourly pay edged up 0.1% a year; San Jose's fell 1.5%. Over Sam Liccardo's tenure, 2015 to 2023, the average hourly pay edged up 0.1% a year. Typical rent is up 17.8% since day zero (4.5% a year).

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