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

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings July 11, 2025 Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings As we discussed in May , the administration proposed as part of the Governor’s May Revision that the Legislature (1) not fund scheduled pay increases to state employees established in ratified labor agreements and (2) authorize the Department of Finance to impose reductions
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - During this time, state staff were processing (and beginning benefit payments for) about half of these claims. As such, the case inventory was growing by about  500  cases per year, with about 7,000 pending cases as of 2015.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

California New Car Registrations: May 2025 [EconTax Blog]

Jul 9, 2025 - California New Car Registrations: May 2025 [EconTax Blog] California New Car Registrations: May 2025 July 9, 2025 Seth Kerstein As discussed in an earlier post , new car purchases can be a useful, timely economic indicator.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/834

California New Car Registrations: May 2025 [EconTax Blog]

Jul 9, 2025 - California New Car Registrations: May 2025 [EconTax Blog] California New Car Registrations: May 2025 July 9, 2025 Seth Kerstein As discussed in an earlier post , new car purchases can be a useful, timely economic indicator.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/834

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

Jun 27, 2025 - The agreement would establish PLP 2025 for full-time and part-time employees represented by Unit 12 in 2025-26 and 2026-27. During PLP 2025, Unit 12 members ’ pay would be reduced by 3  percent in exchange for five hours of PLP 2025 leave credit each month.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

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

Early Data Revision Shows No Job Creation During 2024 Q4 [EconTax Blog]

Jun 24, 2025 - For context, the monthly survey has overestimated net job growth by 25,000 jobs per month on average over this period. In light of this, our office now focuses on a hybrid measure of real-time employment changes  that averages the monthly business survey and the monthly household survey (which has tracked final jobs figures more
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/833

Early Data Revision Shows No Job Creation During 2024 Q4 [EconTax Blog]

Jun 24, 2025 - For context, the monthly survey has overestimated net job growth by 25,000 jobs per month on average over this period. In light of this, our office now focuses on a hybrid measure of real-time employment changes  that averages the monthly business survey and the monthly household survey (which has tracked final jobs figures more
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/833

Annual Report on Tax Exemptions for Medicinal Cannabis

Jun 24, 2025 - For example, if a patient received six donations in 2023, then the transaction total includes that person six times. Amounts of Products Donated. As shown in Figure  1, licensees donated a wide variety of products in 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5059