The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - Despite these differences, there are three consistent, major elements of compensat ion that we discuss below —salary, salary-driven benefits, and non-salary-driven benefits. Salary. State jobs are categorized into more than 4,500 specific classifications.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 19 (Health and Social Services/Professional)

Sep 1, 2023 - While there currently is one authorized position in this classification, the administration’s fiscal estimates indicate that the administration proposes adding 10.5 additional positions in the classification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4797

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

Jul 14, 2025 - As a GSI, this pay increase will apply to all steps of all Unit 16 job classifications ’ salary ranges. 2027-28: 3.5  Percent Top Step Increase. Effective July 1, 2027, the agreement would increase the top step of all Unit 16 job classifications ’ pay ranges by 3.5  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - Positions Typically Funded at Mid-Step of Salary Ranges. Each state job classification includes a salary range within which a department may pay an employee who is hired in that job classification. The salaries for job classifications are a range with a bottom step being the lowest possible
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888

The 2023-24 Budget: Total Compensation Studies

May 24, 2023 - In the case of the state workf orce, there are thousands of unique job classifications. Though each job classification is unique, many job classifications are part of the same occupation. For example, an Attorney I, Attorney II, Attorney, III, and Attorney IV are each unique state job classifications but are part of the same broad occupation category.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4773

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - Typically, salary adjustments for other units reflect comparisons of comparable jobs across the state. As a result, often, salaries are more competitive in regions with lower costs of living, whereas salaries in more expensive regions are less competitive.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

Unit 9 (Professional Engineers) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - Issues for Legislative Consideration Require Administration to Report Special Salary Adjustments Established by Committee. The agreement would give a joint labor management committee the authority to determine special salary adjustments for 13 state job classifications.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4620

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - As a GSI, the pay increase adjusts all steps of all salary ranges of all job classifications represented by Unit 9. 2026-27: Special Salary Adjustments (SSAs) to Top (4.5  Percent) and Bottom Steps (2  Percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - The estimated salary and salary-driven costs for these employees in 2024-25 totaled $1.1  billion with about two-thirds of these costs being paid from the General Fund. Firefighters Compensated Differently Than Most Employees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 13 (Stationary Engineers)

Jun 24, 2022 - Salary and Pay Increases Pay for Top of Salary Ranges. State jobs are organized into job classifications. Each job classification has an established salary range with a minimum and a maximum salary. The agreement would increase the maximum salary of Unit 13 job classifications in three instances over the course of the agreement ’s term.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4607