California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - The main exception is that high wages are top-coded: all wages above a certain amount are assigned the same value. In high-wage states like California, top-coding seriously hinders analyses that consider the upper portion of the wage distribution.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - It is comfortably within the range of minimum wage increases in the U.S. over the last four decades —closer to the bottom of that range than the top. Coming Into 2024, Roughly 10  Percent of Workers Made $16 Per Hour or Less.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/3

Improving California’s Unemployment Insurance Program

Aug 8, 2022 - In December 2020, EDD hired a fraud consultant to review nearly 10  million claims issued during the pandemic for potentially fraudulent characteristics. In its review, the consultant flagged 1.1  million claims as potentially fraudulent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4615

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Provides $10  Million to Renew the Helping Justice-Involved Reenter Employment Program. The 2025-26 budget plan includes $10  million for a grant program supporting non-profits who provide training and employment to individuals who were recently incarcerated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

Annual Report on Tax Exemptions for Medicinal Cannabis

Jul 1, 2021 - The top panel of the figure summarizes the total weight of donations whose weights were specified in the Metrc data. The bottom panel summarizes the number of donated packages whose weights were not specified.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4447

The 2021-22 Budget: Business Tax Incentives

Jan 28, 2021 - Set aside $15  million to be awarded competitively to large applications (more than $10  million), with each applicant receiving, at most, an additional $10  million. Changed evaluation process to award slightly higher scores to applicants who do not qualify for partial exemption.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4327

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Roughly 20  percent live with one child, 15  percent with two children, and fewer than 10  percent with three or more children. The numbers for mid-to-high-wage workers are similar. Roughly 10  Percent of Low-Wage Workers Are Sole Breadwinner With Children.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/1

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Over the last decade, two statutes —Chapter  351 of 2013 (AB  10, Alejo) and Chapter  4 of 2016 (SB  3, Leno) —gradually have increased California ’s statewide minimum wage from $8 per hour to $16 per hour.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878

Effect of Returning to Historical Estimated Tax Payment Schedule

Feb 27, 2023 - This change had the effect of accelerating tax collections from 2009 ‑10 into 2008 ‑09, thereby improving the 2008 ‑09 budget condition. As the state ’s fiscal situation continued to deteriorate in 2009, the 2009 ‑10 budget package again changed the quarterly estimated tax payment schedule to collect 70  percent in the first half of the fiscal year and 30  percent in the second, improving the 2009 ‑10 budget condition.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4722

Overview of Diversity Efforts in the Film Tax Credit Program

May 1, 2025 - There are limited exemptions to this requirement, including independent productions with a total expenditure of less than $10  million. Version 4.0 also increases the required contribution to the Career Pathways Program from 0.25  percent to 0.5  percent for non ‑independent productions only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5036