MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - The valuation does not provide separate normal costs for the benefit for employee hired before 2017 versus those hired after 2017; however, the normal cost for the benefit earned by new employees certainly is lower than the normal cost for the benefit earned by employees hired before 2017.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - As shown in Figure  6 , from 2017 ‑18 through 2019 ‑20, the state averaged more than 1,600 schools closed due to wildfires annually, compared to an annual average of about 70 schools from 2008‑09 to 2016‑17.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - As a result, often, salaries are more competitive in regions with lower costs of living, whereas salaries in more expensive regions are less competitive. In contrast, Unit 5 receives salary increases based on labor market trends in counties with high costs of living despite roughly 70 percent of Unit 5 members working in counties that are not included in the survey.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - The largest factors driving these cost increases have been (1)  the rapid growth in health premiums and (2)  the growing number of people receiving the benefit as more employees retire and people live longer in retirement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

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

Jul 14, 2025 - The largest factors driving these cost increases have been (1)  the rapid growth in health premiums and (2)  the growing number of people receiving the benefit as more employees retire and people live longer in retirement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

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

Jun 27, 2025 - The largest factors driving these cost increases have been (1)  the rapid growth in health premiums and (2)  the growing number of people receiving the benefit as more employees retire and people live longer in retirement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - The largest factors driving these cost increases have been (1)  the rapid growth in health premiums and (2)  the growing number of people receiving the benefit as more employees retire and people live longer in retirement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

The 2023-24 Budget: Total Compensation Studies

May 24, 2023 - For some jobs, the state employs people in the same occupation across the state and cost of living varies significantly by region. As a result, compensation for the same occupatio n can vary widely. In other cases, there are limited private (or other public) comparison employers, potentially limiting the value of the study.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4773

The 2021-22 May Revision: Golden State Stimulus 2

May 18, 2021 - As of March  2021, more than 80  percent of unemployed workers live in households with below-average annual income. Unprecedented Federal Relief Has Mitigated Pandemic ’s Impacts. As illustrated in the Figure  1 below, federal relief programs have provided over $150  billion of temporary assistance to Californians during the pandemic, including: Unemployment Insurance (UI).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4435

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - CAAP offered recommendations to make cost neutrality more likely, including setting the DROP account interest rate below the plan ’s actual or expected rate of return, permanently waiving or reducing automatic cost-of-living adjustments on retirement benefits during the period the member is in DROP, and not crediting the full amount of any contributions made by the member during DROP.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066