Federal Paid Leave for Workers Impacted by COVID-19

Mar 27, 2020 - Due to various exemptions, H.R.  6201 probably does not apply to between 50  percent and 75  percent of private-sector employees in California. (Private-sector employees make up 80  percent of the state ’s workforce.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4212

Unit 2 (Attorneys) MOU Analysis

Sep 12, 2019 - (The study also found that Unit 2 attorneys are compensated 38 percent below median compensation in the private sector. Comparing Unit 2 compensation with the private sector, however, likely is not the most helpful metric as the hours and stability of state attorney jobs are very different than that of attorneys in the private sector.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4095

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Workers and Employers [Publication Details]

Apr 5, 2022 - This is one of a series of reports summarizing how climate change will impact different sectors across California. Reports by Policy Area
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4587

Unit 2 (Attorneys) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - State Attorney Compensation State Attorney Compensation Continues to Lag Local Government and Private Sector Counterparts. In our 2019 analysis of a past Unit 2 agreement, we discussed that CalHR and other compensation studies had identified a lag between Unit 2 classifications and similar employees who work for local governments or the private sector.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4619

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Aug 28, 2018 - It is our understanding that the department has undertaken various strategies to boost recruitment, including participating in recrui tment fairs and visiting college campuses. We have been told that the main difficulty with recruiting the employees is competition from the private sector.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3880

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Employers in both the public and private sectors commonly conduct regular compensation studies to monitor changes in the labor market. A well-designed compensation study can be a valuable tool that provides a number of benefits that we identified in a 2023 analysis , including: allowing an employer to assess its competitiveness in the labor market, evaluating whether limited
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians)

Sep 7, 2023 - The study compared the state ’s total compensation with that provided by other employers to similar employees in the private sector in all cases and the private sector as well as local government in the case of Dentists.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4801

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Millions of California residents visit the coast annually to fish, swim, surf, and enjoy nature, particularly along the one‑third of the coastline owned by the State Parks system. A recent scientific  study  by United States Geological Survey researchers predicted that under scenarios of three feet to six feet of sea‑level rise, up to two‑thirds of Southern California beaches may become completely eroded by 2100.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2023-24 Budget: Total Compensation Studies

May 24, 2023 - 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. Office of Personnel Management.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4773

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - DROPs are most common in public sector police and firefighter plans. Some local governments in California offer DROP to their employees (for example, the Cities of Los Angeles , San Diego , and Fresno , and the City and County of San Francisco ).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066