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

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

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 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

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - As one point of reference, this is roughly equivalent in size to the state ’s outstanding federal Unemployment Insurance loan taken out during the pandemic that employers are set to repay over the coming years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

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

Jun 27, 2025 - Figure  3 shows the average monthly salaries of Unit 12 members, adjusted for inflation. The figure shows a significant decline in average adjusted monthly salary for Unit 12 members over the past couple of decades.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

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

Jul 14, 2025 - While the study indicated that state dentists are retiring at higher rates than statewide or other Unit 16 positions, the elevated retirement rate does not seem to be affecting the state ’s ability to fill dentist positions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - However, based on the cost to reduce it by six hours (from 72 hours to 66 hours), it seems reasonable to assume that such an action would increase annual costs by at least several hundreds of millions of dollars.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

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

Sep 9, 2025 - Beginning in 2030-31, both the employer and employee contributions under the agreement would fluctuate as a percentage of pay so that the employer and employee each contribute one-half of the normal cost of the benefit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073