MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - When CalHR did release a compensation study of Unit 6 compensation in 2023 (referred to as the 2022 compensation study because it relies on data from 2022), we were highly critical of the methodology adopted for the study.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

Labor Agreements: Bargaining Units 1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, AND 21

Jun 25, 2020 - LAO Comments Agreement Limits Options in 2022 ‑23. Under the agreement, the PLP would end at the end of 2021 ‑22. No reductions would be in place in 2022 ‑23 under the agreement. The agreement specifies that reductions will not be established for employees represented by Local 1000 in 2022 ‑23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4257

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - The compensation reductions established under these agreements were in effect through 2020-21 and were restored through agreements in 2021-22. Bargaining Concessions Lead to Offsetting Costs Down the Road.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

The 2021-22 Budget: Labor Agreements Ending Personal Leave Program 2020

Jun 25, 2021 - On June 11, 2021, the administration and CASE agreed to a successor MOU that would be in effect through June 30, 2022. The proposed agreement ends PLP 2020 and establishes other provisions, discussed in greater detail below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4446

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, and 21 (SEIU Local 1000)

Sep 6, 2019 - The proposed agreement would provide GSIs to all employees represented by Local 1000 on July 1 of 2020 (2.5  percent), 2021 (2  percent), and 2022 (2.5  percent). Combined, the administration estimates these GSIs will increase state annual costs by $710  million ($299  million from the General Fund) by 2022 ‑23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4094

Unit 9 (Professional Engineers) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - As we indicated in our June 25, 2021 analysis of the 2021 Unit 6 agreement with the state, the Unit 6 agreement provided Unit 6 a 2.5 percent GSI in 2022-23 and specified that CCPOA could choose to reopen that agreement should another bargaining unit receive a GSI in 2022that is greater than 2.5 percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4620

The 2020-21 Budget: Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Sep 9, 2020 - On June 25, 2020, our office released an analysis of the 11 labor agreements submitted to the Legislature before June 30, 2020. This analysis provides a historical record of all the labor agreements between the state and its employees to reduce state costs in 2020‑21 and—in most cases—2021‑22.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4267

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - This action resulted in the portion of the state’s contribution rate that goes towards the unfunded liability to be lower than it otherwise would have been in 2021‑22, the year from which data was pulled for the compensation study.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

Unit 2 (Attorneys) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - As we indicated in our June 25, 2021 analysis of the 2021 Unit 6 agreement with the state, the Unit 6 agreement provided Unit 6 a 2.5 percent GSI in 2022-23 and specified that CCPOA could choose to reopen that agreement should another bargaining unit receive a GSI in 2022 that is greater than 2.5 percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4619

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - Specifically, using data reported in the state budget, the number of state employees grew by more than 11  percent from 226,000 state employees in 2011 ‑12 to more than 251,000 state employees in 2022 ‑23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888