The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - The California Public Employees ’ Retirement System (CalPERS) determines how much money must be contributed each year to fund the pension benefit. There are two components of the total contribution to CalPERS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - The actual cost will depend on how many employees cash out leave and how much leave they choose to cash out. Provisions From Past Agreements Not Included No Reopener if Other Units Get Higher Pay Increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

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

Jul 14, 2025 - The agreement also specifies how much of the time may be worked remotely at a location other than the employee ’s worksite. In the case of DSH, the full two hours may be taken remotely if approved by the supervisor.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - A pension system matures as the share of people receiving benefits (retirees and their beneficiaries) grows relative to the share of active members who are working and contributing to the system. As a pension system matures, its cash flow changes from a positive cash flow (more money coming into the system than is being paid out to beneficiaries)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - Under current state policy, state departments that allow state employees to work a hybrid schedule (meaning a portion of the work week in office and a portion of the work week from a remote location) must have a telework policy with a default minimum of two in-person days per work week.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

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

Jun 27, 2025 - A future Legislature and Governor could face pressure to use money from the trust fund as soon as it becomes available, e specially to address a budget problem, should one exist in 2046. To the extent that money is drawn from the fund before the benefit is fully funded, the likelihood of the benefit ever becoming fully funded will further diminish.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 2 Debt Payment Proposals

Mar 20, 2024 - Supplemental Pensions Payments Employers May Contribute Any Amount of Money Above What Is Required. Pension boards determine —either according to actuarial standards or statutory requirements —how much money employers must contribute to the pension system each year to address any existing unfunded liabilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4887

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - What are the administration ’s goals regarding hybrid work? How do those goals vary by department and classification? How could hybrid work be implemented to improve recruitment and retention? What aspects, if any, of the hybrid workforce and the proposed elimination of the telework stipend will be determined through the collective bargaining process?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - In our experience, compensation studies that are developed using methodologies agreed to at the bargaining table have proven to be unhelpful in understanding how competitive the state is as an employer across the state or where state employees actually work.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

The 2023-24 Budget: Total Compensation Studies

May 24, 2023 - For example, the annual Unit 5 compensation study is not particularly useful for understanding how Unit 5 compensation compares with the labor market across the state. This is because the compensation study only compares the state to five coastal, high cost-of-living jurisdictions when Unit 5 members work in every county across the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4773