The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - The salary range has a minimum step and a maximum step (also referred to as a top step) with intermediary steps in-between. Employees who are not at the top step of their job classification’s salary range may be eligible for a merit salary adjustment (typically 5 percent) in each year that they meet certain expectations, until they are at the top step of the range.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

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

Sep 9, 2025 - Increases 2025-26 Special Salary Adjustments for Employees Below Top Step of Salary Ranges. The 2024 MOU included pay increases in 2025-26 of (1)  between 4  percent and 5  percent for employees at the top step of their classification ’s salary range and (2)  3  percent for employees not at the top step of their classification ’s salary range.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

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

Jun 27, 2025 - In 2003, the average Unit 12 member had more than 11 years of state service. Today, the average Unit 12 member has seven years of service. Declining Share of Employees at Top Step. Figure  2 shows that the share of Unit 12 members who are at the top step of their job classification ’s pay range has decreased significantly over the past couple of decades and appears to be continuing to decline.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

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

Jul 14, 2025 - Employees at the top step of their salary ranges would receive the pay increase. Employee not at the top step would not receive the pay increase. Correctional Medicine Differential —Resolution to PERB Case SA-CE-2168-S.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - Effective July 1, 2027, the agreement would provide SSAs that adjust the top and bottom steps of the salary ranges for all Unit 9 classifications. Specifically, the top steps would increase 4.5  percent and the bottom steps would increase 2  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians)

Sep 7, 2023 - As of August 31, 2023, the vacancy rates of the three occupational groups included in the compensation study were 11  percent in the case of Dentists, 23  percent in the case of Family Medicine Physicians, and 46  percent in the case of Psychiatrists.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4801

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Somewhat Lower Share of Employees at Top Step. As Figure  3 shows, compared with 2015, a lower proportion of Unit 6 members are paid at the top step of their salary range. This indicates that there is less seniority among Unit 6 members than a decade ago.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - Employees at the top step of their salary range would receive these pay increases as SSAs. About 36  percent of Unit 10 members are at the top step of their salary ranges. In the absence of this agreement, employees at the top step would not get pay increases as employees at the top step are not eligible for merit salary adjustments (MSAs).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

Unit 2 (Attorneys) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - Effective July 1, 2024, the top step of 11 classifications equivalent to the Attorney III classifications would increase 10  percent. Increased Reimbursement for Local and Specialty Bar Dues. The current agreement reimburses or pays directly to the State Bar the cost of bar dues for each employee for whom bar membership is required as a condition of employment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4619

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 19 (Health and Social Services/Professional)

Sep 1, 2023 - Employees who have been at the top step of an eligible classification for at least a year would automatically receive the specified pay increase. The below top step pay increases would go into effect July 1, 2023. 10  Percent: Psychologist Classifications.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4797