MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 10 (Professional Scientists) and 18 (Psychiatric Technician)

Sep 9, 2025 - Pay Increases Established by 2024 MOU Not Funded in 2025-26 Budget. The Unit 10 MOU that the Legislature ratified in 2024 included pay increases in 2025-26. The 2025-26 budget enacted by the Legislature in July does not appropriate funds to pay for these scheduled pay increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists)

Jul 14, 2025 - LAO Comments Administration ’s Estimated Fiscal Effect Reduced State Costs in 2025-26. As Figure  3 shows, PLP 2025 and the suspension of OPEB prefunding would result in the state ’s Unit 16 compensation costs being lower than present levels in 2025-26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - Specifically, the Legislature ratified the agreements with Units 9 and 12 though Chapter 25 of 2025 (SB 139, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) and the agreement with Unit 6 through Chapter 26 of 2025 (SB 140, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings [Publication Details]

Jul 11, 2025 - To effectuate those savings, the budget package provided legislative ratification of any agreement that achieved budgetary savings and was entered into before the start of the 2025-26 fiscal year. In total, the administration and 19 of the state’s bargaining units were able to enter into agreements by midnight on June 30, 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5063

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - …Likely Resulting in Net Costs to State Beginning in 2025-26. If overtime payments in 2025-26 reflected overtime payments in 2024, the 2.5  percent GSI would increase state expenditures for overtime by more than $7  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - This means that the agreement would be in effect for three fiscal years: 2025-26, 2026-27, and 2027-28. Pay Increases. As specified below, the agreement would provide all Unit 9 members pay increases on July 1, 2025 and on July 1, 2027. 2025-26: 3  Percent General Salary Increase (GSI).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - The provisions of the MOUs with these bargaining units would provide employees in each of the units some form of salary increase in 2025-26. Seven Bargaining Units Have Agreements Expiring in 2025-26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Under the PLP 2025 established by the agreement, employees ’ pay would be reduced by 3  percent in 2025-26 and 2026-27. The PLP 2025 pay reduction offsets the 2025-26 GSI such that affected employees ’ take-home pay essentially is flat during PLP 2025 relative to current salary levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 12 (Craft and Maintenance)

Jun 27, 2025 - Under the current MOU, the state and Unit 12 members each are scheduled to contribute one-half of the normal cost —calculated to be 4.1  percent of pay —to prefund retiree health benefits in 2025-26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, and 21 (SEIU Local 1000)

Sep 7, 2023 - As Figure  3 shows, the administration estimates that the agreement would increase state annual costs by nearly $1.5  billion ($670  million General Fund) by 2025-26. If the GSI in 2025-26 is 4  percent, the annual cost would be about $125  million higher.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4799