The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - Though furloughs provide immediate savings, they increase long-term state liabilities in the form of higher leave b alances and by systematically underfunding pension benefits because, though the pension earned by state employees continues to be based on the full salary, the state ’s contribution to the pension is based on the reduced pay level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - Governor Moved to Impose Terms in March  2024 … Subsection (b) of Section 3517.8 of the Government Code allows the Governor to implement “any or all” of his LBFO if the parties “reach an impasse in negotiations” for a new MOU.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

The 2023-24 Budget: Total Compensation Studies

May 24, 2023 - For public employers, a compensation study also brings transparency to the decision-making process such that employees, policy-makers, and the publ ic all have the same information against which to evaluate proposed changes in compensation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4773

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - Under the Governor ’s proposed budget, the state would end 2020 ‑21 with $20. 5  b illion in total reserves. This represents an increase of $1. 7  b illion from the 2019 ‑ 20 e nacted reserve level of $18. 8  b illion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - Based on the data CalHR provided us, far more Unit 6 members have 457(b) accounts (20,241 members with accounts) than 401(k) accounts (4,599 members with accounts). The administration indicates that the average balances of Unit 6 457(b) and 401(k) accounts was $20,803 and $27,272, respectively.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

The 2021-22 Budget: Interest Payment on Federal Unemployment Insurance Loan

Feb 10, 2021 - The state ’s peak year ‑end balance of loans was $10. 2  b illion at the end of 2012. Between 2011 and 2018, the state General Fund paid a total of $1. 4  b illion in interest payments on these loans.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4360

Unit 9 (Professional Engineers) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - Figure 1 Administration ’s Fiscal Estimates of Proposed Unit 9 Agreement (In Millions) Professional society and organization dues a — Transportation Surveyor recruitment and retention pay differential a — Increase footwear reimbursement (from $100 to $150) a — Extend NDI Family Care Leave a, b — Transit subsidy changes 75 percent to 100 percent a, b — $220.3 a
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4620

The 2021-22 Budget: Creating a New Department of Better Jobs and Higher Wages

Feb 10, 2021 - The Governor first proposed to create the Department of Better Jobs and Higher Wages last year as part of the 2020 ‑ 21 b udget process. At that time, Legislative budget subcommittee hearings were consolidated due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID ‑1 9) p andemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4361

Recent Changes to State and County IHSS Wage and Benefit Costs

Dec 14, 2018 - County A has a wage level of $11.00 per hour, while County B has a wage level of $12.50 per hour. For this example, we assume that neither County A nor County B provide benefits and all of the modeled wage increases occur in 2018.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3913

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 2 Debt Payment Proposals

Mar 20, 2024 - The Legislature passed Chapter  46 of 2014 (A B  1469 , Bonta), establishing a funding plan with the aim of reversing that projection and fully eliminating the Defined Benefit Program ’s unfunded liabilities by 2046.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4887