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

Jul 14, 2025 - Figure 3 Administration ’s Estimated Fiscal Effect of Proposed Unit 16 Agreement (In Millions) Extend Terms of Agreement to Excluded Employees b ‑3.3 $51.4 $54.8 a State General Fund retiree health prefunding costs are paid using funds required to be expended under Proposition 2 (2014). b This is an indirect cost that would result from the agreement being ratified.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

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

Sep 9, 2025 - The table reflects assumptions assumed by the administration in its estimate of the agreement ’s fiscal effect. b The agreements with Units 12 and 13 provide employees an additional eight hours of PLP 2025 leave effective June 1, 2027 on a one ‑time basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

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

Jun 27, 2025 - Figure 1 Administration ’s Estimated Fiscal Effect of Proposed Unit 12 Agreement (In Millions) Extension of Terms to Excluded Employees b ‑2.3 $18.4 $52.0 a State General Fund retiree health prefunding costs are paid using funds required to be expended under Proposition 2 (2014). b This is an indirect cost that would result from the agreement being ratified.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - Figure 1 Summary of PLP 2025 Under Ratified Agreements a Unit Monthly Hours of Leave Accrued Duration (Months) Monthly Hours of Leave Accrued Duration (Months) 12 a Units 8 and 18 agreements do not establish PLP 2025 for those units. b The specific pay reduction and corresponding number of hours of leave accrued will depend on the pay increases provided to Unit 5 following the annual survey required by Section 19827 of the Government Code.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - Though furloughs provide immediate savings, they increase long-term state liabilities in the form of higher leave b alances and by systematically underfunding pension benefits because, though the pension earned by state employees continues to be based on the full salary, the state ’s contribution to the pension is based on the reduced pay level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Studies designed by the b argaining table typically rely on non-representative samples of employers (for example, only comparing the state ’s compensation with local government employers in high-cost coastal communities) and do not accurately compare total compensation across employers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

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

Jan 13, 2020 - Under the Governor ’s proposed budget, the state would end 2020 ‑21 with $20. 5  b illion in total reserves. This represents an increase of $1. 7  b illion from the 2019 ‑ 20 e nacted reserve level of $18. 8  b illion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - Governor Moved to Impose Terms in March  2024 … Subsection (b) of Section 3517.8 of the Government Code allows the Governor to implement “any or all” of his LBFO if the parties “reach an impasse in negotiations” for a new MOU.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

The 2021-22 Budget: Interest Payment on Federal Unemployment Insurance Loan

Feb 10, 2021 - The state ’s peak year ‑end balance of loans was $10. 2  b illion at the end of 2012. Between 2011 and 2018, the state General Fund paid a total of $1. 4  b illion in interest payments on these loans.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4360

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - Based on the data CalHR provided us, far more Unit 6 members have 457(b) accounts (20,241 members with accounts) than 401(k) accounts (4,599 members with accounts). The administration indicates that the average balances of Unit 6 457(b) and 401(k) accounts was $20,803 and $27,272, respectively.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800