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 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

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

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Workers and Employers

Apr 5, 2022 - One current challenge is that the state often does not collect the data necessary to make this assessment. One option to begin addressing this problem could be to direct workforce agencies to start collectin g and reporting data on utilization of workforce programs among workers in specific industries and occupations with high exposure to heat, drought, inclement weather, or other manifestations of climate change.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4587

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - Comparing statewide payroll data from December 2015 with data from December 2023, the statewide vacancy rate increased 62  percent from 13  percent of positions being vacant to 21  percent of positions being vacant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

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

Jul 14, 2025 - CalHR ’s compensation study did not include data to suggest that the state has unique challenges keeping physician or dentist positions filled. In the case of dentists, the vacancy rate was 10  percent, which is much lower than the statewide average 21  percent vacancy rate and the 31  percent vacancy rate across Unit 16 positions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064