The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - The salary range has a minimum step and a maximum step (also referred to as a top step) with intermediary steps in-between. Employees who are not at the top step of their job classification’s salary range may be eligible for a merit salary adjustment (typically 5 percent) in each year that they meet certain expectations, until they are at the top step of the range.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - Under state law, vacation or annual leave is considered a form of wages that is vested when earned. As such, employers cannot adopt a “use it or lose it ” policy for earned employee vacation and annual leave whereby unused vacation or annual leave above a certain level is forfeited at the end of the year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

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

Jun 27, 2025 - The proposed agreement would replace the scheduled top step increase with a 3  percent GSI. While a top step increase applies only to employees at the top step of their salary range, a GSI applies to all members of the bargaining unit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists)

Jul 14, 2025 - Employees at the top step of their salary ranges would receive the pay increase. Employee not at the top step would not receive the pay increase. Correctional Medicine Differential —Resolution to PERB Case SA-CE-2168-S.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 18 (Psychiatric Technicians)

Jan 9, 2020 - Additional Pay Increase for Employees at Top Step of Salary Range. In addition to the GSIs, the top step of the salary range for specified classifications would be increased by 2.5  percent, effective the month following ratification of the agreement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4134

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 7 (Protective Services and Public Safety)

Jun 24, 2016 - While the administration ’s plan seems to be to keep making pay-as-you-go benefit payments for many years, the new arrangement would begin to fund “normal costs ” each year for the future retiree health benefits earned by today ’s Unit 7 workers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3486

Federal Paid Leave for Workers Impacted by COVID-19

Mar 27, 2020 - Under paid family leave, most workers receive 60  percent of their normal weekly earnings. Third, workers who are themselves sick or quarantined may be eligible for state short-term disability insurance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4212

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 2 (Attorneys and Hearing Officers)

Aug 29, 2016 - Employees who currently are at the top step of the existing judge classification likely would be eligible to promote to the new classification and receive a 5  percent pay increase under the new classification pay scale.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3495

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 19 (Health and Social Services/Professional)

Sep 1, 2023 - For reference, the total blended normal cost for State Miscellaneous is 17.6 percent of pay. LAO Assessment
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4797

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

Sep 9, 2025 - Increases 2025-26 Special Salary Adjustments for Employees Below Top Step of Salary Ranges. The 2024 MOU included pay increases in 2025-26 of (1)  between 4  percent and 5  percent for employees at the top step of their classification ’s salary range and (2)  3  percent for employees not at the top step of their classification ’s salary range.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073