Local Sales Tax Rebates in 2023-24

Sep 16, 2025 - Focusing on these areas, Figure  3 displays the distribution of rebate payments across jurisdictions, weighted by the number of residents. One-sixth paid less than $1 per resident. Another two-thirds paid $1 to $20 per resident.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5074

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Estimating Characteristics of Low-Wage Workers In this section, we describe the method we use to construct the estimates displayed in Figures 2 through 5 in the post Who Are California’s Low-Wage Workers?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

Evaluation of a Tax Exemption for Zero-Emission Buses

Apr 15, 2024 - Figure  2 displays the annual share of new buses that are ZEBs. This share has been growing over time. In 2020, 10  percent of buses entering service for large transit agencies were ZEBs; by 2022, that share had grown to 28  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4890

The 2025-26 Budget: California’s Film Tax Credit

Feb 28, 2025 - The drop in California ’s production activity is displayed in Figure  4 , which shows the number of shoot days in the Los Angeles area by year and type of production. The COVID ‑19 effect was short ‑lived and shoot days returned to pre ‑pandemic levels in 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5000

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Figure  2 displays the results. These estimates are very similar to the numbers in Figure  1, indicating that recent immigration does not explain those age patterns. Rates of Low-Wage Work as Workers Age Although we do not have state-level data tracking specific individuals over long periods of time, the monthly CPS provides reasonably consistent measurements of workers ’ ages and wages every month from 2002 through 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/2

The 2023-24 Budget: Multiyear Budget Outlook

May 23, 2023 - Figure  2 displays the distribution of the most likely revenue outcomes over the multiyear (in light purple). As seen in the figure, while the revenues required to balance the budget (in green) are optimistic, but plausible, in the budget window, they are improbable in the out ‑years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4772

Income Mobility in California Across Generations

Jan 4, 2017 - Figure 4 displays average household earnings by quintile in 2012. Households in the bottom fifth earned an annual average income of $11,361 in 2012. Figure 5 displays adult income outcomes for children born to households in the bottom quintile.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3518

The 2018-19 May Revision: LAO Revenue Outlook

May 12, 2018 - Figure 1 displays our General Fund revenue outlook through 2021-22. Our revenue outlook is based on a consensus national economic forecast compiled by Moody ’s Analytics. As such, our revenue estimates are premised on two key assumptions: the continuation of the current economic expansion through 2022, and a moderate stock market decline in 2019 followed by a gradual rebound.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3830

The 2022-23 Budget: Fuel Price and Other Fiscal Relief Options

May 12, 2022 - Figure  1 illustrates these trends, displaying the percentage increase in prices for items in the Los  Angeles metro area from January 2017 through March  2022. While prices in general have increased, the price of motor fuels and electricity have grown even more significantly when compared to other items, as highlighted in the figure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4597

The 2017-18 Budget: Evaluating the State-County Assessors' Partnership Agreement Program

Mar 27, 2017 - Note: Part ‑time staff displayed as 0.5 full ‑time staff. Did SCAPAP Increase Property Tax Revenues? Our Approach to Analyzing SCAPAP ’s Effect on Property Tax Revenues. Determining the effect of SCAPAP on property tax revenues is difficult because it is not possible to know how much revenue would have been collected in the absence of the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3632