MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - Some local governments in California offer DROP to their employees (for example, the Cities of Los Angeles , San Diego , and Fresno , and the City and County of San Francisco ). The specific design of DROPs vary.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Costs for cities and counties might include adding drainage to roads to manage more intense rain events, or modifying water treatment plants located along the coast to accommodate higher sea levels. …And Private Residents and Businesses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2023-24 Budget: Total Compensation Studies

May 24, 2023 - In the report, CalHR identifies the “lead” or “lag” of state compensation where the state compensates its employees more or less, respectively, relative to the other employers. CalHR uses the same methodology for most bargaining units for their compensation studies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4773

Unit 2 (Attorneys) MOU Analysis

Sep 12, 2019 - The department gathered salary and benefit data from city and county governments in locations where there are DOJ legal offices. With a few exceptions in certain localities, the DOJ study found that benefits do not vary greatly across the comparison groups.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4095

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

Sep 9, 2025 - The agreement would adjust the state ’s contribution to be equivalent to the “80/80 ” formula where the state contributes 80  percent of the average premium for employees and 80  percent of the average premium for additional family members.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

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

Jun 27, 2025 - This likely is less reflective of inflation eroding the purchasing power of Unit 12 salaries and more a reflection of the fact that Unit 12 members today tend to be lower in the salary ranges than they were in the past.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - The five jurisdictions are the City and County of San Francisco; Los Angeles County; and the Cities of Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Diego. This statutory comparison predates the state employee collective bargaining process established by the Ral ph C.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - The Unit 6 study CalHR released in 2025 (based on 2024 data) suffers from the same methodological flaws that we identified with the 2022 study: the study omits overtime (a substantial component of Unit 6 compensation), compares Unit 6 compensation with a survey sample that is not representative of where state correctional officers work (largely reflecting regions with much higher
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

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

Sep 7, 2023 - While some employees work in various departments, most work for the Department of General Services (DGS) at the Office of State Publishing where the state budget, bills and laws, and other state documents are printed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4799

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 14, 2024 - As we discuss in our March 2024 analysis , CalFire is changing its overall staffing model from one where the department progressively ramps up staffing levels between March and June for summer preparedness and ramps down staffing levels from October to December for winter preparedness to one where it maintains a base staffing level in January, February, and March and then a peak staffing level April through December with no transition period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4919