The Total Employees and Businesses Dataset is a snapshot of the total number of businesses that are currently in Mesa, as well as the total number of employees that work in Mesa.
Source: ESRI Community Analyst.
It is important to note that in this dataset, a “Full-Time Employee (FTE)” in Mesa is someone who may not necessarily live in Mesa, however, they are employed at a business that is located in Mesa. This is a distinct difference between the “Employment” number in Mesa, which is stated in the “Employment Dataset.” Employment refers to the total number of Mesa residents that are employed, within or outside of the City of Mesa.

The Business Breakdown Dataset shows the number of businesses and employees from a wide variety of unique industries throughout Mesa. This data is pulled annually from the ESRI Community Analyst database.

Information about employers and employees in the City of Mesa by industry and census tract. Data is collected annually by Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG) from a variety of sources. NOTE: Location of employees are generalized based on the center point of census tract and are NOT an exact location.

NOTE: Effective March 1, 2019, the Mesa tax rate increased from 1.75% to 2.0%.

This dataset contains sales tax revenue for taxpayers within the City of Mesa by reporting month. Reporting month refers to the time period when the consumer activity took place and is a representation of economic activity in the city. For example, a sale registered in the month of March, appears in the reporting month March, regardless of when the payment was actually received/posted by the City. Revenues by reporting month change as audits, collections and other taxpayer payments/refunds are processed or other corrections to previous periods are received. These updates to revenues are reported to the month for which the taxable activity occurred. For these reasons, generally speaking, reporting month revenues become a more accurate reflection of consumer activity over time. For sales tax revenues reflecting posting month (accounting period when the tax revenues were posted), see "Citywide Tax Revenue by Post Month" at https://data.mesaaz.gov/Financials/Citywide-Tax-Revenue-by-Post-Month/e9zg-r4w9. Sales tax revenue includes Transaction Privilege Tax (TPT) and Transient Lodging Tax (TLT). Effective January 2017, the Arizona Department of Revenue administers sales and use tax collection for all state, county and municipal taxing jurisdictions. Visit https://www.mesaaz.gov/business/tax-audit for more information about sales tax in the City of Mesa.