About City of Hawthorne
What is the City of Hawthorne?
The City of Hawthorne is the municipal government of Hawthorne, California — a South Bay Los Angeles city of about 88,000, incorporated in 1922. It is best known today as the home of SpaceX's rocket factory (6,094 local employees, the city's largest employer — the corporate HQ moved to Starbase, Texas, but the Hawthorne facility remains), anchoring a space-engineering cluster that grew around it and the city's Northrop heritage; Hawthorne Municipal Airport still carries the name Jack Northrop Field. The city has a pop-culture claim too: all the original Beach Boys grew up here, and a Beach Boys Historic Landmark marks the Wilson family home site. The city itself employs around 360 staff.
Where will I work?
Hawthorne City Hall at 4455 W. 126th Street. The 4/10 is structural: the city's own contact page reads "City Hall Hours: Monday to Thursday 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM, Friday: Closed".
What is the City of Hawthorne team like?
Around 360 staff across administration, community development, public works and its own police department. Hawthorne posts openings on its own site (with union MOUs and salary schedules published openly) rather than through a job-board ATS — so check its careers page directly; we surface the company profile so seekers can find and follow it.
Work-Life Balance
Every Friday off, by the building's own schedule, in the middle of the South Bay's aerospace corridor. A City Hall career here sits beside one of the most consequential industrial clusters in America — the planning, permitting and economic-development work of a city hosting SpaceX's 6,000-person rocket factory is not ordinary small-city fare. The city also publishes its union MOUs and salary schedules openly, so the terms of every role are inspectable before you apply — an unusual level of transparency even among California municipalities.
Perks and Benefits
- Citywide 4/10 — "Friday: Closed" on the city's own contact page
- Union MOUs and salary schedules published openly on the city site
- Three-day weekend every week
Note: Hawthorne hires through its own site (PDF postings + Formstack applications) — no scrapeable feed, so no live jobs appear here; check cityofhawthorne.org for openings.