Mountain View
Mountain View's minimum wage is $19.70 an hour for the 2026 calendar year, effective January 1, 2026. It applies to employers that are subject to the Mountain View Business License Tax or maintain a facility in the city, for each employee who performs at least two hours of work a week there. The city sets the next year's rate each fall, and its page, last updated October 23, 2025, doesn't show a 2027 figure.
In Mountain View, the wage test looks at the employer as well as the worker: the business license tax or a facility in the city, plus two hours a week of work there. This page covers the rate, that coverage test, the timing of the 2027 number, California sales tax on cleaning, and what it means for your books. Payroll registration and the employee test are on bookkeeping for California cleaning businesses.
The city's Economic Development page lists $19.70 an hour for 2026, effective January 1. It covers employers subject to the Mountain View Business License Tax or that maintain a facility in Mountain View, for each adult or minor employee who performs at least two hours of work per week in the city. The page says the rate is updated each fall for the next calendar year. It was last updated October 23, 2025, and no 2027 rate was found on official sources as of October 21, 2026, so check the city page before January. Whether your company and crews are covered is a question for the city or an employment attorney.
Source: City of Mountain View, Economic Development, City Minimum Wage (last updated October 23, 2025)
For comparison, California's state rate is $16.90 an hour, and the Department of Industrial Relations announced on August 13, 2026 that it rises to $17.40 on January 1, 2027.
Source: California Department of Industrial Relations, Labor Commissioner, Minimum Wage FAQ
Source: California Department of Industrial Relations, News Release 2026-66 (August 13, 2026)
Under Regulation 1501, California's general rule for service businesses, residential and commercial cleaning aren't taxable, and the cleaning company owes tax on the supplies it buys as their consumer. No California Department of Tax and Fee Administration source naming house cleaning or janitorial service was found, so this is the general rule applied to cleaning. The conditions are on my California sales tax page.
Source: California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, Regulation 1501, Service Enterprises Generally
The 2027 figure is the open item. Checking a city page twice for one number can feel silly, and I'm the last person to tease anyone for doing it. Wages go in at what each person is actually paid, and the 2027 Mountain View rate gets added as soon as the city posts it. If your company pays the Mountain View Business License Tax, it gets its own expense line, and supplies are booked at full cost, tax included. More on how I set up payroll for cleaning businesses.
I'm a bookkeeper, not a CPA or an Enrolled Agent. I keep wages, supplies, and any business license tax recorded; tax questions go to your CPA, and coverage questions go to the city or an employment attorney.
Rules checked against the sources above as of October 20, 2026. Rates and rules change; confirm current figures with the agency or your CPA.
About Figure Eight Financial
Figure Eight Financial is Dave Gordon’s bookkeeping practice for residential and commercial cleaning companies. I work with owners in Mountain View and across the country, and I’m a Certified QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor.
Before bookkeeping I studied computer science at Penn State and spent a career at IBM as an engineer, so I build the books as a system: data comes in once, lands in the right place, and ties back to a statement. I’m a bookkeeper, not a CPA or Enrolled Agent. I keep the books your CPA works from, and the tax decisions stay with your CPA.
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Mountain View's coverage turns on the business license tax or a facility in the city, and the 2027 rate hasn't been posted yet. Payroll is recorded at the wage actually paid, the new rate goes in once the city publishes it, and a business license tax payment sits on its own expense line. Book a short call below and we'll look at your Mountain View jobs together.
The core service. Transactions recorded and categorized, every account reconciled so the books and the bank agree, and monthly reports that arrive explained, split by residential and commercial and sliceable per contract.
The full picture of how this works for a cleaning companyFor the months where nothing got entered at all. I fill in the missing periods from the ground up, pulling bank feeds, statements, and receipts until every month has a complete set of records.
How catch-up bookkeeping worksFor books that exist but can’t be trusted. I audit what’s there, fix the unreconciled accounts, duplicate transactions, and wrong categories, and tie every balance back to a statement.
How cleanup bookkeeping worksYour crews paid on time, every pay period, with each payroll run recorded in the books so labor shows up against the jobs it belongs to.
How payroll worksRecurring invoices that match your contracts, an aging report you can trust, and follow-up on slow payers handled by a process instead of your evenings. Built for net-60 commercial accounts.
How invoicing and receivables workA file built right for a cleaning company from day one, or rebuilt after the DIY version drifts, and then I teach you to run it. I’m a Certified QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor, and this is honestly my favorite part of the job.
How a proper setup worksWe start with a short call about your business and where the books stand. The first conversation doesn’t cost anything.
I take a look at what you’ve got, your QuickBooks file, your spreadsheet, whatever exists.
You get a written proposal with the price, so the decision is yours with the number in hand.
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Doing work in Mountain View and want your payroll ready for whatever the 2027 rate turns out to be? Send me your current setup. The first conversation doesn't cost anything.
