The 2023-24 Budget: Multiyear Budget Outlook

May 23, 2023 - LAO Spending Estimates Over $10   Billion Higher Than the Administration by 2026 ‑27. By 2026 ‑27, our estimate of General Fund spending (excluding spending on schools and community colleges) is $10  billion higher than the administration ’s estimate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4772

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - As shown in Figure  6, the 2024 statewide minimum wage is noticeably below half of the 2022-2023 full-time median wage. By this measure, the state ’s minimum wage is around where it was one decade ago.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/3

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This is a decrease of $10  million  (6  percent) from the revised 2024-25 level. (This does not reflect some adjustments related to Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12 of the 2024-25 and 2025-26 budgets. Please see the “New and Ongoing Efforts to Achieve Efficiencies” section of our post for more information.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

California’s Fiscal Outlook: The 2011-12 Budget [Publication Details]

Nov 10, 2010 - The budget problem consists of a $6 billion projected deficit for 2010‑11 and a $19 billion gap between projected revenues and spending in 2011‑12. Similar to our forecast of one year ago, we project annual budget problems of about $20 billion each year through 2015‑16.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2365

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - For example, the monthly CPS unit nonresponse rate grew from 10  percent in 2013 to 30  percent in 2023. Unit nonresponse rates for many other surveys are well above 30  percent. Another Weakness: Measurement Error.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

The 2017-18 Budget: An Overview of the Governor's Proposition 56 Proposals

Feb 22, 2017 - Specifically, the measure requires BOE to receive $6  million annually ($7.5  million for five quarters of revenue) for enforcement activities. The administration ’s proposal only provides $5.8  million in 2017 ‑18.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3573

Statewide Minimum Wage Increasing in January

Dec 6, 2016 - On that date, the statewide minimum wage will increase from $10 per hour to $10.50 per hour for employers with 26 or more employees. (This requirement will apply to employers with fewer than 26 employees one year later.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3512

Managing California’s Cash

Sep 3, 2019 - Figure  10 shows how this borrowing plan is meant to work. Under the plan, the Controller has transferred $ 6  b illion from the PMIA to CalPERS, which CalPERS has invested to help pay down its unfunded liability, earning an expected return of 7  p ercent per year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4092

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - Each year that General Fund tax revenues grow, this 10  p ercent threshold also grows. As such, in each of these years, the state is required to make deposits into the BSA to bring the fund to the revised estimate of 10  p ercent of General Fund taxes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

How Will Aging Baby Boomers Affect Future Property Tax Revenues?

Jun 20, 2017 - Over the past decade, around 10  percent of property transfers have taken advantage of the parent-to-child exclusion to prevent an increase in property tax payments. Figure  6 shows how many of these exclusions have been used each year during the past decade.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3693