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

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 10 (Professional Scientists) and 18 (Psychiatric Technician) [Publication Details]

Sep 9, 2025 - MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 10 (Professional Scientists) and 18 (Psychiatric Technician) [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
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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

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 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 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - Effective July 1, 2027, the agreement would provide SSAs that adjust the top and bottom steps of the salary ranges for all Unit 9 classifications. Specifically, the top steps would increase 4.5  percent and the bottom steps would increase 2  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Somewhat Lower Share of Employees at Top Step. As Figure  3 shows, compared with 2015, a lower proportion of Unit 6 members are paid at the top step of their salary range. This indicates that there is less seniority among Unit 6 members than a decade ago.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists) [Publication Details]

Jul 14, 2025 - MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists) [Publication Details] MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists) Format: HTML Description: On July 10, 2025, our office received from the California Department of Human Resources (CalHR) a proposed successor memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the state and Bargaining Unit 16.
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Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - The Unit 10 agreement is a side letter related to the administration ’s telework policy and does not include provisions to reduce employee compensation. As a proposed MOU, the Unit 16 agreement is subject to our review under Section 19829.5.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - Specifically, Section 19829.5 of the Government Code specifies that CalHR “shall provide a memorandum of understanding pursuant to Section 3517.5 to the Legislative Analyst who shall have 10 calendar days from the date the tentative agreement is received to issue a fiscal analysis to the Legislature. […] The memorandum of understanding shall not be subject to legislative
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066