MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - In calendar year 2024, data from the State Controller ’s Office indicate that rank-and-file Unit 8 salaries totaled $518  million and overtime payments to these employees totaled $294  million —57  percent of their base salary.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

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

Sep 9, 2025 - Largely Maintains Provisions of 2024 Agreement. The proposed agreement maintains most of the provisions of the 2024 MOU. Like the 2024 MOU, the agreement would last two years and would expire July 1, 2027.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 2 Debt Payment Proposals

Mar 20, 2024 - That is, all of the savings associated with the payment would accrue to 2024 ‑25 with zero benefit to future years. Proposed Use of 2023 ‑24 Payment Appears to Violate Constitution by Supplanting State Contribution in 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4887

Unit 8 (Firefighters) MOU Analysis

Aug 26, 2022 - That policy would be incorporated into the Governor ’s 2024-25 budget proposal in January 2024. Accordingly, the specifics of how the 66-hour duty week would be structured or implemented are not known.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4621

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Vacancy data from 2024 does not support the claim. In calendar year 2024, the average monthly vacancy rate across all CDCR facilities was 11  percent. The vacancy rate at each of the three eligible institutions was lower than this statewide average: 8.9  percent at R.J.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

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

Sep 7, 2023 - This means the agreement would be in effect for three fiscal years: 2023-24, 2024-25, and 2025-26. General Salary Increases (GSIs). The agreement would provide three GSIs over the course of the agreement, specified below. 3  Percent July 1, 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4799

Unit 2 (Attorneys) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - Effective July 1, 2023, the top step of three administrative law judge classifications would increase by 4.5  percent. 4.5  Percent Top Step Increase for Most Unit 2 Classifications in 2024-25. Effective July 1, 2024, the top step of all Unit 2 classifications, except classifications equivalent to the Attorney III classification, would increase
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4619

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 14, 2024 - Enacted 2024-25 Budget Includes Funds to Reduce Duty Week. The 2024-25 Governor ’s budget included $199  million ($197  million General Fund) and 338 positions in 2024-25 to begin implementing a shift to a 66-hour duty week as contemplated in the Unit 8 MOU.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4919

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

Jun 27, 2025 - Between 2000-01 and 2024-25, the state ’s inflation-adjusted General Fund pay-as-you-go cost towards these benefits increased by more than 250  percent to $2.8  billion. The largest factors driving these cost increases have been (1)  the rapid growth in health premiums and (2)  the growing number of people receiving the benefit as more employees retire and people live longer in retirement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - Similar to how the 2009 ‑10 payroll deferral operated, this would result in the state paying 11 months of payroll in 2024 ‑25 and, beginning in 2025 ‑26, state accounting reports in future fiscal years would include June payroll from the preceding fiscal year through May of the current fiscal year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888