The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This amount includes $10  million for Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup security costs, $10  million for Family Justice Centers, and $8  million to the City of Los Angeles for fire engine purchases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - In other words, we estimate the 10 th percentile hourly wage for men to be roughly 5  percent to 10  percent higher than the 10 th percentile hourly wage for women. This wage gap is smaller than national estimates, though still substantial.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/3

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Roughly 20  percent live with one child, 15  percent with two children, and fewer than 10  percent with three or more children. The numbers for mid-to-high-wage workers are similar. Roughly 10  Percent of Low-Wage Workers Are Sole Breadwinner With Children.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/1

Effect of Returning to Historical Estimated Tax Payment Schedule

Feb 27, 2023 - This change had the effect of accelerating tax collections from 2009 ‑10 into 2008 ‑09, thereby improving the 2008 ‑09 budget condition. As the state ’s fiscal situation continued to deteriorate in 2009, the 2009 ‑10 budget package again changed the quarterly estimated tax payment schedule to collect 70  percent in the first half of the fiscal year and 30  percent in the second, improving the 2009 ‑10 budget condition.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4722

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Over the last decade, two statutes —Chapter  351 of 2013 (AB  10, Alejo) and Chapter  4 of 2016 (SB  3, Leno) —gradually have increased California ’s statewide minimum wage from $8 per hour to $16 per hour.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878

The 2023-24 Budget: Multiyear Budget Outlook

May 23, 2023 - LAO Spending Estimates Over $10   Billion Higher Than the Administration by 2026 ‑27. By 2026 ‑27, our estimate of General Fund spending (excluding spending on schools and community colleges) is $10  billion higher than the administration ’s estimate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4772

The 2023-24 Budget: California's Film Tax Credit

Feb 28, 2023 - Second, the requirements do not apply to independent films with qualified expenditures less than $10  million. Assessment Legislature ’s Assessment Should Depend on How It Prioritizes Hollywood ’s Importance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4713

Overview of Diversity Efforts in the Film Tax Credit Program

May 1, 2025 - There are limited exemptions to this requirement, including independent productions with a total expenditure of less than $10  million. Version 4.0 also increases the required contribution to the Career Pathways Program from 0.25  percent to 0.5  percent for non ‑independent productions only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5036

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - For example, the monthly CPS unit nonresponse rate grew from 10  percent in 2013 to 30  percent in 2023. Unit nonresponse rates for many other surveys are well above 30  percent. Another Weakness: Measurement Error.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

The 2021-22 Budget: Business Tax Incentives

Jan 28, 2021 - Set aside $15  million to be awarded competitively to large applications (more than $10  million), with each applicant receiving, at most, an additional $10  million. Changed evaluation process to award slightly higher scores to applicants who do not qualify for partial exemption.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4327