The 2023-24 Budget: Total Compensation Studies

May 24, 2023 - In the case of the state workf orce, there are thousands of unique job classifications. Though each job classification is unique, many job classifications are part of the same occupation. For example, an Attorney I, Attorney II, Attorney, III, and Attorney IV are each unique state job classifications but are part of the same broad occupation category.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4773

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - This issue is particularly common among high-demand jobs (for example, nursing staff) or in high-cost-of-living regions of the state. Challenging Working Conditions. The nature or location of a state job might make it difficult to fill.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - In 2022-23, the state paid $25.5 billion (all funds) towards employee salaries. Salary-Driven Benefits. A salary-driven benefit is a benefit whose value is, at least in part, dependent on an employee ’s salary.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - In contrast, Unit 5 receives salary increases based on labor market trends in counties with high costs of living despite roughly 70 percent of Unit 5 members working in counties that are not included in the survey.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

Unit 9 (Professional Engineers) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - The study would be completed no later than March  1, 2023. The committee would mutually decide on appropriate salary adjustments that would go into effect July 1, 2023. The agreement specifies that the total cost of these salary adjustments shall not exceed 1  percent of payroll for Unit 9 members (estimated to be $24  million by the agreement).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4620

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - (We note that average monthly base pay is an imperfect metric to gauge effects of inflation as it reflects growth in salary from salary increases as well as seniority as people move up their job classification’s salary range.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

Unit 2 (Attorneys) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - Salary and Pay General Salary Increases (GSIs) in 2022-23 and 2023-24. The agreement would provide all Unit 2 members a pay increase of 2.5  percent effective July 1, 2022 and 3  percent effective July 1, 2023. 2023-24 and 2024-25 Top Step Increases for Specified Classifications.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4619

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - Effective July 1, 2024, Unit 10 members who have 17 years of state service would receive a payment of 2  percent of base salary and employees with 18 or more years of service would receive 3  percent of base salary.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

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

Sep 1, 2023 - This high turnover rate appears driven primarily by high rates of voluntary separations, which were reported to be more than 2.5 times the statewide voluntary separation rate. Possibly in part due to this turnover, the study indicates that more than 22  percent of state maintenance and repair worker positions are vacant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4798

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 1, 3, 4, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21

Jan 10, 2017 - This report is an imperfect tool in comparing compensation because (1) some government jobs do not have clear private sector equivalents and (2) the data are point in time and provide no indication of potential future changes in compensation across employers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3520