MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - LAO Comments Administration ’s Estimated Fiscal Effect Agreement Reduces Costs in 2025-26 and 2026-27, Increases Costs Thereafter. Figure  1 shows the administration ’s estimated fiscal effect of the proposed agreement as well as the administration ’s estimated fiscal effect of extending provisions of the agreement to excluded employees affiliated with Unit 6.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections) [Publication Details]

Jun 23, 2025 - MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections) [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5058

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - As we describe below and list in Figure  1, the Legislature has ratified agreements between the administration and 19 of the state ’s 21 bargaining units. The rank-and-file and excluded employees associated with these 19 bargaining units represent more than 95  percent of the state workforce.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

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

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 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 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists)

Jul 14, 2025 - While state-employed physicians and dentists were found to be compensated above market, the study found that state psychiatrists are compensated below market (6 percent below market when comparing total compensation and 1 percent below market when comparing wages alone).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

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

The 2021-22 Budget: Labor Agreements Ending Personal Leave Program 2020

Jun 25, 2021 - As discussed in greater detail later in this analysis, the current Unit 6 agreement makes inoperable a provision related to CalHR ’s Unit 6 compensation study. The proposed agreement would make the provision operable again.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4446

The 2021-22 Budget: Labor Agreements Ending Personal Leave Program 2020 [Publication Details]

Jun 25, 2021 - This analysis reviews 20 labor agreements received by the Legislature between June 9 and June 15, 2021. The analysis summarizes and provides comments on the agreements. In addition, the analysis provides overarching comments across the 20 agreements and offers recommendations to the Legislature.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4446