The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - Dental and Vision Insurance. The state pays the full premium cost for basic dental and vision benefits. The cost depends on whether the state pays for single, two-party, or family coverage. In 2022-23, providing dental and vision benefits to state employees cost the state $98  million (all funds).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - Health, Dental, and Vision Benefits. The report assumes that both entry-level and journey-level employees are enrolled in employer-sponsored health, dental, and vision insurance with policy coverage for a family.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

The 2023-24 Budget: Total Compensation Studies

May 24, 2023 - The department uses these data to compare wages and total compensation (including supplemental pay [including overtime], paid leave, insurance [including health, dental, and vision insurance], retirement, and legally required benefits) earned by employees in specific occupations employed by the state, private industry, local government, and federal government.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4773

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - The proposed agreement specifies that during the time that an employee is on parental leave, the employee would be allowed to continue their health, dental, and vision benefits; however, the cost of these benefits would be paid by the employee at the group rate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920