The 2022-23 Budget: Supply Chain and Port Infrastructure Proposals

Feb 15, 2022 - The Governor ’s budget provides a total of $1.2  billion over two years ($600  million in 2022 ‑23 and $600  million in 2023 ‑24) for a new goods movement infrastructure program to be administered by CalSTA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4540

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - As one point of reference, this is roughly equivalent in size to the state ’s outstanding federal Unemployment Insurance loan taken out during the pandemic that employers are set to repay over the coming years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

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

Jul 14, 2025 - The agreement also increases the number of continuing medical education leave hours that employees may carry over year over year from 112 hours to 120 hours. LAO Comments Administration ’s Estimated Fiscal Effect Reduced State Costs in 2025-26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Donovan Correctional Facility received payments of up to $10,000 over the course of the two years of the agreement —up to $5,000 in July 2024 and up to $5,000 in July 2025 depending on tenure. The proposed agreement similarly would provide eligible employees at the same institutions up to $10,000 over the first two fiscal years of the agreement with a payment of up to $5,000 in July 2026 and another payment of up to $5,000 in July 2027.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

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

Jun 27, 2025 - Figure  2 shows that the share of Unit 12 members who are at the top step of their job classification ’s pay range has decreased significantly over the past couple of decades and appears to be continuing to decline.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 2 Debt Payment Proposals

Mar 20, 2024 - A supplemental pension payment can benefit an employer over the short ‑ or long ‑term, depending on how the payment is applied to the employer ’s unfunded liability. Often, actuaries amortize a new unfunded liability over decades.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4887

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - As we discuss in greater detail below, the number of Unit 9 positions as grown significantly over the past decade. Unit 9 and affiliated excluded employees account for about 2  percent of the state ’s General Fund salary and salary-driven benefit costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - For rank-and-file employees, labor agreements establish the effective date and types of pay increases received by employees over the term of the agreement. The administration most often extends pay increases agreed to at the bargaining table to excluded emplo yees affiliated with the bargaining unit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - However, as we discuss in greater detail below, though the parties were able to agree to side letter agreements over the period, the parties repeatedly failed to ratify a successor MOU over the past four years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 7 (Public Safety)

Sep 7, 2023 - We do not know the cause of this variation; however, the trend could reflect shifts in the workforce over time that affect the average salary rather than a reflection of past pay increases not keeping pace with inflation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4802