The 2026-27 Budget: How to Use One-Time Revenue Improvements

Feb 20, 2026 - Our Revenue Estimates Consistent With $2.5  Billion Upgrade to Budget Bottom Line Compared to January. Our recent revenue post suggests an improvement in revenues of around $5 billion relative to the Governor’s budget estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5133

California New Car Registrations: April 2025 [EconTax Blog]

Jun 10, 2025 - For example, although registrations in April 2025 were the highest in the last couple years, they were 2.5 percent lower than in April 2019.  
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/832

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

Sep 9, 2025 - Unit 18 Workforce and Compensation Unit 18 Affiliated Employees Represent 2.5  Percent of State Workforce. Unit 18 represents about 6,000 FTE rank-and-file state employees. When counted with their affiliated managers and supervisors, Unit 18 accounts for about 2.5  percent of the state workforce and 3.8  percent of the state ’s General Fund payroll costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

Nutrition subsidies for children not attending public K-12 schools

Apr 11, 2012 - (The state spends an additional $2.5 million in Proposition 98 funds to subsidize meals in child care programs sponso red by school districts.) The state subsidy provides an additional $0.16 per meal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/581

^[PDF] CalSTRS--Purchasing Power Benefits

CalSTRS--Purchasing Power Benefits June 12, 2008 Page 1 Figure 4 Agenda Page 89, Issue 301 CalSTRS—Purchasing Power Benefi ts Supplemental Benefi t Maintenance Account Current Law Assembly Governor/Senate Proposed LAO Compromise Package Targeted Purchasing Power Benefit (Percent of Initial Benefit) 80 percent 85 percent 85 percent 85 percent New Authority for CalSTRS to Set Targeted Benefit
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/Conf_Comm/2008/CalSTRS_Purchasing_Power_06_12_08.pdf

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 14, 2024 - Effective July 1, 2025, the proposed agreement would provide all state employees represented by Bargaining Unit 8 a 2.5  percent GSI. A GSI increases the base pay for all steps in each classification ’s pay range. 2025-26 SSA to Fire Fighter I and Fire Lookout Classifications.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4919

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - This increase is primarily due to the full-year impact of the federal SSI grant cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) (2.5  percent) and the half-year impact of the federal SSI COLA estimated to be 3.9  percent, effective January 1, 2026.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/4

Unit 9 (Professional Engineers) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - As we indicated in our June 25, 2021 analysis of the 2021 Unit 6 agreement with the state, the Unit 6 agreement provided Unit 6 a 2.5 percent GSI in 2022-23 and specified that CCPOA could choose to reopen that agreement should another bargaining unit receive a GSI in 2022that is greater than 2.5 percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4620

Unit 8 (Firefighters) MOU Analysis

Aug 26, 2022 - The Unit 6 agreement specifies that the reopener is triggered if a bargaining unit receives a GSI greater than 2.5  percent “payable in 2022. ” The proposed Unit 8 agreement provides for a 2.5  percent GSI effective July 1, 2022 but then provides an additional 2  percent effective January 1, 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4621

Higher Education General Fund Support Under Governor's Budget and May Revision [EdBudget]

May 14, 2023 - Higher Education General Fund Support Under Governor's Budget and May Revision [EdBudget]     a Reflects Proposition 98 funding, which consists of certain General Fund and local property tax revenues. b Includes funding for pensions and retiree health benefits. c The annual growth rate of Proposition 98 spending drops from 2.5 percent at Governor's budget to 0.4 percent at May
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/721