The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - Specifically, the data suggest that the Secretary of State (SOS) has a vacancy rate of 49  percent. In fact, however, in 2022 ‑23, the average monthly vacancy rate for SOS was 27  percent. The SCO and SOS reported that the 49  percent vacancy rate was not correct and that it was the result of internal processing issues at SCO.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888

The 2022-23 Budget: UC Climate-Related Proposals

Feb 16, 2022 - The state ’s public universities also operate extended education programs, which generally are self ‑supported by student fee revenue. The state, however, provided UC Extension $15  million one ‑time General Fund in 2019 ‑20 to develop additional certificate programs serving adults who had some college credits but no college degree.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4538

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, and 21 (SEIU Local 1000)

Sep 6, 2019 - MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, and 21 (SEIU Local 1000) Tweet September 6, 2019 MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, and 21 (SEIU Local 1000) Late August 30, 2019, the administration posted on the California Department of Human Resources ’ (CalHR ’s) website a 1,798 page tentative agreement between
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4094

The 2022-23 Budget: Assessing Proposals to Address Unemployment Insurance Fraud

Feb 15, 2022 - Earlier this month, the company CEO admitted to misleading ID.me clients: although ID.me uses one ‑to ‑one matching to confirm identity, the company also made so ‑called “one ‑to ‑many ” matches without their client ’s knowledge.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4542

Labor Agreements: Bargaining Units 1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, AND 21

Jun 25, 2020 - Makes Little Sense for Certain Employees: 24-Hour Settings, Federally Funded, Revenue-Generating. Furloughs create significant operational challenges in 24-hour settings (for example, prisons, hospitals, highway patrol, and firefighting) where positions must be filled around the clock.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4257

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - Figure  5 shows that the state ’s costs to compensate CHP officers is greater than for state correctional officers and roughly twice the cost for the state employees represented by Service Employees International Union, Local 1000 (SEIU Local 1000) —a union that represents roughly one-half of rank-and-file state employees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 1, 3, 4, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21

Jan 10, 2017 - Figure 3 SEIU Local 1000 Agreements Pool OPEB Normal Costs Unit Average Base Pay (December 2015) Employee Share of Normal Costs (Percent of Pay) Actuarially Determined a Units Represented by SEIU Local 1000 17 3.4 3.5 a "Actuarially determined" contribution reflects one-half of 2015-16 normal costs as a percent of 2015-16 pay.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3520

The 2017-18 Budget: Public Employment Relations Board (PERB)

Feb 17, 2017 - Two Vacant Board Seats. In order to take action on items, a quorum of three board members must be present at board meetings. For more than a year, two of the five seats on the board have been vacant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3566

Unit 2 (Attorneys) MOU Analysis

Sep 12, 2019 - DOJ compared compensation levels for the state ’s Deputy Attorney General series to compensation for other public sector attorneys in California. For context, about one-fourth of Unit 2 members are employed in the Deputy Attorney General series.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4095

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - We raised concerns in 2018 that CalHR provided no supporting evidence to justify Unit 6 pay increases despite it being required by state law (see our May 2018 analysis ). 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
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058