The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - Data on Which Proposal Is Premised Has at Least One Glitch. The vacancy data used by the administration to estimate the savings assumed in the budget are maintained by SCO. While these data are the best available for statewide vacancies and position authority, we did identify one significant glitch in the data when we spot checked them.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888

The 2022-23 Budget: Supply Chain and Port Infrastructure Proposals

Feb 15, 2022 - The lack of data standards has for many years caused supply chain inefficiencies. Unfortunately, prior international efforts to harmonize data standards among the various stakeholders have been unsuccessful.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4540

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - A compensation study aggregates and analyzes internal and external data so that an employer can compare the compensation structure it offers with that provided by similar employers to similar employees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

The 2018-19 Budget: Statewide Prison to Employment Initiative

Mar 12, 2018 - Both Require Similar, Though Limited, Data Reporting. The new proposal would require local agencies to report similar data and information to the State Board as is required under the current grant program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3781

The 2020-21 Budget: Staffing to Address New Independent Contractor Test

Feb 11, 2020 - The main reason we cannot estimate the number of contractors who will become employees due to AB  5 is that the law went into effect January 1, 2020 and therefore no employment data is available. As monthly employment data becomes available, our office will be able to better gauge the number of contractors who have become employees under AB  5.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4151

The 2023-24 Budget: Total Compensation Studies

May 24, 2023 - CalHR uses data from the state’s payroll maintained by the State Controller’s Office, data collected by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the California Employment Development Department on large public and private sector employers, and data regarding federal payroll from the U.S.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4773

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

Feb 10, 2021 - According to the administration, the new department is needed in order to “integrate policy development and workforce innovation with existing employment, training, and data collection services. ” The Governor has proposed to establish the new department using the state ’s statutory process, rather than the executive branch reorganization process outlined in the State Constitution.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4361

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

Feb 15, 2022 - Consulting contract with Executive Information Systems to improve reporting of potentially fraudulent activity and crossmatching that data with Department of State Hospitals patient data or California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation  records.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4542

Collective Bargaining: Assessing Proposed Employee Compensation Increases

Mar 20, 2020 - However, the overall conclusion of the studies are the same: recent studies (using data from 2017, 2018, and 2019) identify a significant lag in state attorney compensation compared with local governmental employers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4206

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - In 2021, the most recent year for which we have injury data, we estimate that 3,500 workers suffered workplace injuries of this severity. Coincidentally, roughly the same number of workers have filed SIBTF claims annually in recent years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062