The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - Despite these differences, there are three consistent, major elements of compensat ion that we discuss below —salary, salary-driven benefits, and non-salary-driven benefits. Salary. State jobs are categorized into more than 4,500 specific classifications.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 18 (Psychiatric Technicians)

Jan 9, 2020 - Effective July 1, 2021, the agreement establishes conditions that would increase contributions to pens ion and retiree health benefits in the future, described below. Pensions. Employee contributions will increase July 1, 2021 if CalPERS determines that (1)  the total normal cost has increased by more than 1  percent of pay and (2)  50  percent of the total normal cost (rounded to the nearest quarter of 1 percent) is greater than the employee contribution rate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4134

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - As such, a spike in resignat ions warrants further investigation to understand the root cause of the resignations. As we discuss below, we do not think that compensation has been the main driver leading to increased retirements and a spike in resignations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

The 2021-22 Budget: Labor Agreements Ending Personal Leave Program 2020

Jun 25, 2021 - This analysis reviews 20 labor agreements received by the Legislature between June 9 and June 15, 2021. The analysis summarizes and provides comments on the agreements. In addition, the analysis provides overarching comments across the 20 agreements and offers recommendations to the Legislature.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4446