MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientists)

Aug 28, 2018 - The agreement would provide a monthly pay differential equivalent to 2  percent or 3  percent of base pay for employees who work in a Unit 10 classification that requires possession of a master ’s degree or doctoral degree, respectively.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3881

The 2017-18 Budget: Funding Public Works Labor Enforcement

Mar 3, 2017 - This action would free up $2.2  million in the SPWEF on an ongoing basis and would largely address the funding imbalance going forward, even if contractor registration fee revenues remain flat in future years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3603

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - Effective the first day of the pay period following ratification, Unit 10 members in various specified classifications would receive a 2  percent pay differential if they possess a master ’s degree and a 3  percent pay differential if they possess a doctoral degree or Doctor of Medicine.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

The 2017-18 Budget: Public Employment Relations Board (PERB)

Feb 17, 2017 - We estimate that the three vacant positions associated with these board vacancies —the two board members and a shared support staff position —free up at least $500,000 (about 5 percent of the department ’s budget) for PERB to spend on other staff and operating expenses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3566

The 2022-23 Budget: UC Climate-Related Proposals

Feb 16, 2022 - For occupations requiring a bachelor ’s degree or higher, the state provides ongoing support to UC and CSU to offer bachelor ’s, master ’s, and doctoral degree programs. The state ’s public universities also operate extended education programs, which generally are self ‑supported by student fee revenue.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4538

Revisiting the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Insolvency

Sep 30, 2016 - While achieving the DOL ’s reserve target is one requirement for states to obtain short-term (up to nine months) interest-free federal UI loans, we note that states that meet this target are much less likely to require federal loans in any event, decreasing the significance of this benefit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3503/3

The 2016-17 Budget: Public Employment Relations Board (PERB)

Mar 1, 2016 - In addition to positions held vacant for purposes of freeing up funds, departments typically have vacancies resulting from natural turnover among staff. (The budget used to assume that 5 percent of a department ’s authorized positions would be vacant at any one time due to natural turnover.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/report/3377

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - When a position is vacant or filled by an employee at a pay level lower than the department ’s budget assumes, the department captures “salary savings. ” Salary savings means that the appropriation for salaries is higher than needed, thus freeing up funds to be used elsewhere in a department ’s budget —for example, to pay for over time, salary costs above the mid-step, or rising rent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888

The 2018-19 Budget: Statewide Prison to Employment Initiative

Mar 12, 2018 - The main logic of the proposal makes sense: (1)  link in-prison CTE, post-release reentry services, and AJCC job training in order to (2)  provide ex-offenders better and expanded services, which (3)  improve employment outcomes and, as a result, (4)  helps ex-offenders remain crime-free.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3781

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - Specifically, the funds would reduce districts ’ CalSTRS rates in 2019 ‑20 and 2020 ‑ 21 —freeing up resources for other parts of districts ’ operating budgets. Though district pension costs typically are covered using Proposition  98 General Fund, the Governor proposes using non ‑Proposition  98 General Fund for this proposal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916