MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - We raised concerns in 2019 that CalHR withheld (and continues to withhold) a compensation study it completed in 2018 (see our June 2019 analysis ) and proceeded to not produce compensation studies in 2019, 2020, or 2021 despite new agreements being submitted to the Legislature in those years (see our June 2021 analysis ).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - As we indicated in our 2019 MOU analysis and our 2024 budget analysis , the MVA has experienced periodic deficits and risks of insolvency over the past couple of decades. In response, the state has taken various actions to shore up the fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

The 2021-22 Budget: Labor Agreements Ending Personal Leave Program 2020

Jun 25, 2021 - However, the administration did not submit a compensation study in 2019. At the time, the administration indicated that CCPOA and CalHR still had not resolved their methodological differences. In 2019, the Legislature ratified another one-year MOU for Unit 6 (henceforth referred to as the 2019 MOU ).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4446

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - State Undid Deferral in 2019 ‑20. The state undid the payroll deferral in 2019 ‑20. To undo the payroll deferral, the state ’s accounting reports reflected the state paying 13 months of payroll in one fiscal year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - CAAP indicated that DROPs present multiple challenges for actuaries to accurately estimate the value of the benefit. CAAP indicated that calculating projections of expected benefit payments is significantly complicated by DROP entry timing, final retirement date, participation rates, overall career length, and employee behaviors (discussed in greater detail below).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

Unit 2 (Attorneys) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - (Also, as we have indicated in numerous past Unit 6 analyses [see our analyses from 2018 , 2019 , and 2021 ], the administration has not released a compensation study for Unit 6 in years, making it virtually impossible to determine if any salary increase for Unit 6 is justified.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4619

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - As we said in 2019 when we reviewed the Unit 6 MOU submitted for ratification that year, CDCR might need to recruit additional women correctional officers to work in its women’s prisons to maintain compliance with Section 2644. 2019 MOU Established Working Group to Develop Recruitment Strategies for Female Staff.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

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

Jul 14, 2025 - While the study indicated that state dentists are retiring at higher rates than statewide or other Unit 16 positions, the elevated retirement rate does not seem to be affecting the state ’s ability to fill dentist positions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

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

Jun 27, 2025 - Projections at the time indicated that the benefit would be fully funded by 2046. Under the plan, the assets of the trust fund cannot be used to pay for the benefit until 2046 or whenever the benefit is fully funded, whichever comes first.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

Unit 9 (Professional Engineers) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - (Also, as we have indicated in numerous past Unit 6 analyses [see our analyses from 2018 , 2019 , and 2021 ], the administration has not released a compensation study for Unit 6 in years, making it virtually impossible to determine if any salary increase for Unit 6 is justified.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4620