The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - The salary range has a minimum step and a maximum step (also referred to as a top step) with intermediary steps in-between. Employees who are not at the top step of their job classification’s salary range may be eligible for a merit salary adjustment (typically 5 percent) in each year that they meet certain expectations, until they are at the top step of the range.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - Under state law, vacation or annual leave is considered a form of wages that is vested when earned. As such, employers cannot adopt a “use it or lose it ” policy for earned employee vacation and annual leave whereby unused vacation or annual leave above a certain level is forfeited at the end of the year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

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

Jun 27, 2025 - The proposed agreement would replace the scheduled top step increase with a 3  percent GSI. While a top step increase applies only to employees at the top step of their salary range, a GSI applies to all members of the bargaining unit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

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

Jul 14, 2025 - Employees at the top step of their salary ranges would receive the pay increase. Employee not at the top step would not receive the pay increase. Correctional Medicine Differential —Resolution to PERB Case SA-CE-2168-S.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 19 (Health and Social Services/Professional)

Sep 1, 2023 - For reference, the total blended normal cost for State Miscellaneous is 17.6 percent of pay. LAO Assessment
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4797

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 10 (Professional Scientists) and 18 (Psychiatric Technician)

Sep 9, 2025 - Increases 2025-26 Special Salary Adjustments for Employees Below Top Step of Salary Ranges. The 2024 MOU included pay increases in 2025-26 of (1)  between 4  percent and 5  percent for employees at the top step of their classification ’s salary range and (2)  3  percent for employees not at the top step of their classification ’s salary range.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - Throughout this analysis, “CAPS” refers to the union representative of Unit 10 before the union affiliated with UAW and “CAPS-UAW” refers to the union representative after affiliation. The administration has posted on the California Department of Human Resources ’ (CalHR ’s) website the full agreement, a summary of the agreement, and their estimated fiscal effects of the agreement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians)

Sep 7, 2023 - For reference, the total blended normal cost for State Miscellaneous is 17.6 percent of pay. LAO Assessment Administration ’s Fiscal Estimate Cost Increases Will Increase Costs to Administer State Prisons.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4801

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - Unit 6 members hired before 2013 earn a pension benefit based on what is referred to as the 3 percent at 50 formula whereby an employee earns 3 percent of their final compensation for every year of service if they retire at the age of 50 years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

Unit 2 (Attorneys) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - Effective July 1, 2023, the top step of three administrative law judge classifications would increase by 4.5  percent. 4.5  Percent Top Step Increase for Most Unit 2 Classifications in 2024-25. Effective July 1, 2024, the top step of all Unit 2 classifications, except classifications equivalent to the Attorney III classification, would increase
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4619