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

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

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - In the absence of this agreement, employees at the top step would not get pay increases as employees at the top step are not eligible for merit salary adjustments (MSAs). Compounded over the three years, the top step adjustments across the four groups of classifications would result in a total pay increase ranging from 14.6  percent to 23.5  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

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

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 13 (Stationary Engineers)

Jun 24, 2022 - The agreement ’s stated purpose of this effort is to increase diversity in Unit 13 and retain skilled labor; however, the agreement provides no specifics on how these goals might be achieved or measured.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4607

Unit 2 (Attorneys) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - The administration ’s goal when developing its estimate of a labor agreement ’s fiscal effects is to determine how much money it needs to request that the Legislature appropriate in order to fully fund the agreement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4619

MOU Analysis: Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Jan 30, 2023 - For many years, there has been significant disagreement between CAPS and the state as to how much state scientists should be paid. The disagreement primarily stems from union-raised pay equity concerns between two sets of employees: (1)  between Unit 9 and Unit 10 rank-and-file workers and (2)  between unit 10 rank-and-file workers and their supervisors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4665

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

Jul 14, 2025 - (Under the policy, the state continues to make pay-as-you-go payments from the General Fund for benefits received by retirees.) The money contributed by the state and employees to prefund the benefit is put in a trust fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

Unit 8 (Firefighters) MOU Analysis

Aug 26, 2022 - This agreement attempts to address these legitimate concerns about fatigue among firefighters that has resulted from these recent wildfire seasons. …But How Goal Would Be Achieved —and at What Cost —Is Unknown.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4621