MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientists)

Aug 28, 2018 - Pay Increase for All Unit 10 Members in 2019-20 and 2020-21. The agreement would provide all Unit 10 members a 5  percent General Salary Increase (GSI) effective July 1, 2019 and an additional 5  percent GSI effective July 1, 2020.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3881

MOU Analysis: Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Jan 30, 2023 - The parties signed the first pages of the tentative agreement in 2020, with some relatively minor provisions of the agreement related to pay being signed during the summer of 2022 (including adjusting the pay range for specified classifications at CDCR, the educational pay differentials, and the industrial hygienist certification differentials); the final provisions were not si gned until mid-December 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4665

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

Sep 9, 2025 - The most recent compensation study that evaluated Unit 10 compensation looked at three occupations represented by Unit 10—chemists (representing about 3 percent of Unit 10 members), epidemiologists (representing about 5 percent of Unit 10 members), and environmental scientists (representing about 70 percent of Unit 10 members).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

The 2025-26 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 20, 2024 - Instead, much of the bounce appears to be tied to special forms of pay for high ‑income workers, such as bonuses and stock  compensation. Booming Stock Market Driving Income Growth. The recent run ‑up in the stock market, which appears tied to optimism surrounding artificial intelligence, is a primary driver of the rapid growth in pay to high ‑income workers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4939

^[PDF] The 2025-26 Budget: California’s Fiscal Outlook

(Income and sales data adjusted for inflation.) -15 -10 -5 5 10 15% Total Pay to Workers -30 -20 -10 10 20 30% Business Owner Income -15 -10 -5 5 10 15% Payroll Jobs -90 -60 -30 30 60 90% Unemployed Workers -21 -14 -7 7 14
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2024/4939/2025-26-Fiscal-Outlook-112024.pdf

Immunology and immunotherapy. [Ballot]

Dec 17, 2025 - Since the state has to pay interest on the money it borrows, the total cost of the bond would be about 10 percent more (after adjusting for inflation) than if the state paid up front with money it already has.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-026

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 22, 2021 - Bonus Pay for Bilingual Service Provider Staff. The spending plan provides $2.2  million General Fund in 2021 ‑22, $4.3  million General Fund in 2022 ‑23, and $6.5  million General Fund in 2023 ‑24 and ongoing to support wage bonuses for DSPs who are bilingual —including in American Sign Language —and can support the estimated 90,000 consumers who speak a primary language other than English.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4476/1

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan

Oct 16, 2025 - The remaining $25  million was made available through June 2028 for grants to legal service providers as follows: $10  million to the judicial branch for indigent civil legal services for individuals likely to be impacted by potential or actual federal actions. $10  million to the Department of Social Services (DSS) for immigration ‑related legal
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5079

Income Tax Withholding Tracker: August 10-August 14 [EconTax Blog]

Aug 14, 2020 - The first graph compares withholding payments received  this   week to payments received in the comparable week in 2019, which ran from Monday, August 5 to Friday, August 9 of that year. Withholding was up 24 percent from the comparable week in 2019.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/522

^[PDF] MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 7 (Protective Services and Public Safety)

Under the proposed MOU, we estimate that costs would total about $515 million (up 11 percent) in 2006‑07 and $540 million (up 5 percent) in 2007‑08. About 55 percent of the increased costs over the term of the agreement result from the proposed MOU.
https://lao.ca.gov/2006/MOU_Fiscal/MOU_Unit7_082506.pdf