The 2023-24 Budget: Total Compensation Studies

May 24, 2023 - The first decision when building a compensation study is to identify which jobs within their organization an employer wants to study. An employer might want to compare the largest categories of employees or want to study a particular category of employee (for example, a job category that the employer has had difficulties recruiting or retaining).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4773

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - As such, the extent to which issues remain justifying a further reduction in the duty week would be unknown. Moreover, we do not know how much reducing the duty week by ten hours would increase state costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - For example, see the 2010 agreement with Service Employees International Union, Local 1000 (Local 10000), which increased employee contributions from 5 percent of pay to 8 percent of pay and reduced pension benefits for future hires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

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

Sep 9, 2025 - Typically, a furlough for state employees reduces state employee pay by 4.62  percent in exchange for one day (eight hours) off per month without affecting other elements of compensation (for example, pension and health benefits).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

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

Jun 27, 2025 - DOF then submits the addendum to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee (JLBC), which has up to 30 days to determine if it disagrees with DOF’s determination that an agreement does or does not requires legislative approval.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - This approach is used because it can be difficult to estimate in a given year (1)  the number of hours of overtime that will be worked and (2)  the cost of each of those hours as the cost depends on which employees work overtime.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

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

Jul 14, 2025 - For example, the state pays a percentage of employees ’ pay to fund pension benefits. During a furlough, the state ’s contributions towards pension benefits is made as a percentage of the reduced salary.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - The proposed agreement would increase the pay received by Unit 5 members for specific activities (for example, caring for and maintaining a canine) or maintaining specific qualifications (for example, a paramedic certification).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

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

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - Given the administration would not begin to identify reductions until after the start of the fiscal year in which reductions are assumed to occur, achieving the full amount of savings seems even more unlikely.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888