The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - Proposal Eliminate Telework Stipend for Annual Savings of $52  Million ($26  Million General Fund). Beginning in 2024 ‑25, the Governor ’s budget proposes eliminating the telework stipend (Pay Differential 453) established under the side letters.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - The administration assumes that 52 rank-and-file employe es and 10 excluded employees would receive this payment, increasing annual state costs by $377,000. The agreement specifies that this payment would not be considered compensation for retirement purposes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

Revisiting the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Insolvency

Sep 30, 2016 - The state is estimated to make additional interest payments of $52  million in 2017 and $17  million in 2018 before the loan is projected to be fully repaid in 2018, as shown in Figure  2 below. Figure 2 General Fund Interest Payments on Federal Loans (In Millions)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3503

State Options to Expand Unemployment Benefits

Apr 9, 2020 - Under SDI, workers may take up to 52 weeks leave while receiving weekly benefits of 60  percent to 70  percent of their normal wages, up to $1,300 per week. The program is funded by a 1  percent employee payroll tax and provides weekly benefits to workers who cannot work due to an injury, illness, or pregnancy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4219

Unit 9 (Professional Engineers) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - The compensation study found that state civil (representing 52 percent of the bargaining unit) and environmental (representing 11 percent of the bargaining unit) engineers are compensated above market.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4620

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

May 30, 2018 - If the Legislature approves this request, the agreement would (1) require CCPOA and the state to meet to modify the existing 52 hours of annual training and (2) extend the 12-week academy to a 13-week academy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3847

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - The share of Unit  6 members who are 40 years old or younger has increased 10  percentage points form 42  percent in 2012 to 52  percent in 2022. The fastest growing age group during this period was 26 to 30 years old.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6

Jun 14, 2019 - CalPERS projects that the state ’s contribution rates to fund correctional officers ’ pensions will increase each year until 2023 ‑24, when it is expected that the state ’s contribution rate will exceed 52  percent of pay.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4078