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

Sep 1, 2023 - Due to one-time costs associated with provisions of the agreement, 2025 ‑26 would be the highest cost year resulting from the agreement, increasing costs in that year by $152  million ($58  million from the General Fund).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4798

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - The administration ’s fiscal estimates indicate that about 235 rank-and-file employees and about 58 excluded employees receive this payment and that the provision would increase annual state costs by $699,000.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - A  2018   report  by the State Coastal Conservancy and The Nature Conservancy found that 55 percent of California’s existing coastal habitats are highly vulnerable to five feet of sea‑level rise, including 60 percent of the state’s iconic beaches and 58 percent of its marshes. 
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - Unit 8 rank-and-file, managerial, and supervisorial employees account for less than 4  percent of the total FTE in the state workforce and about 4  percent of the state ’s General Fund payroll expenditures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

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

Sep 9, 2025 - 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 Unit 12 (Craft and Maintenance)

Jun 27, 2025 - For example, while CalHR found that total compensation for Unit 12 highway maintenance workers was 3  percent above the statewide market rates, CalHR found that Unit 12 highway maintenance workers ’ total compensation lagged total compensation of similar employees in the San Francisco Bay Area by 27  percent, in San Diego County by 4  percent, in the Sacramento Region by 4  percent, and the Los Angeles Region by 1  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

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

Jul 14, 2025 - OPEB = Other Post ‑Employment Benefits and Local 1000 = Nine bargaining units represented by Service Employee International Union, Local 1000: Units 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, and 21. Telework Stipend.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Specifically, for the duration of PLP 2025 (meaning in both 2025-26 and 2026-27) the state would not make its 4  percent of pay contribution to prefund Unit 6 retiree health benefits. The agreement would continue to require employees to make their 4  percent of pay contribution.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - The employee contribution ranges from 1.4 percent of pay to 4 percent of pay. In the short term, initiating a retiree health prefunding arrangement increased state costs; however, over the next several decades, this policy should result in significant savings to the state as the prefunding contributions are invested and compound interest that can be used to offset future state payments towards retiree health premiums.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

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

Sep 7, 2023 - Under the agreement, various specified classifications represented by Units 1, 4, 11, 14, 15, and 20 would receive a 4  percent SSA. The identified classifications are among the lowest paid classifications in state service.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4799