Excluded Employee Pay Increases Implemented

The recently enacted budget includes a 3.4 percent cost-of-living adjustment, effective July 1, 2007, for State employees not covered by collective bargaining ("excluded" and "exempt"), with certain exceptions noted below.

In addition to this COLA, some excluded employees are scheduled to receive special adjustments to reflect pay range increases negotiated with the bargaining unit with which they are affiliated.

Exceptions

In general, the following exceptions apply to situations where a subordinate rank-and-file classification was covered by a contractual increase exceeding 3.4 percent or received a special adjustment to address a severe market lag or critical recruitment need. Unless noted, the following increases take effect July 1, 2007, in place of the 3.4 percent COLA.

• Excluded employees affiliated with bargaining unit 5 (highway patrol officers) will receive a 6.1 percent increase.
• Excluded employees affiliated with bargaining unit 9 (professional engineers) will receive increases ranging from 11.3 to 14.1 percent, depending on their classification.
• The following excluded classifications affiliated with Bargaining Unit 7: State park peace officer, fish and game warden, and DOJ special agent classifications, public safety dispatch supervisor I / II, and communications supervisor classifications. These classes are scheduled to receive other adjustments to address compaction created by pay scale changes negotiated for their rank-and-file subordinates.
• For employees in the CEA band, there is no automatic increase. However, effective July 1, 2007, the minimum and maximum rates for the CEA band increased 3.4 percent. Incumbents below the minimum rate will receive an adjustment to reflect the revised minimum rate.

Other Exceptions

The following classifications are not covered by the 3.4 percent COLA.

• Excluded classifications affiliated with bargaining units 2, 6, and 8.
• Exempt appointees subject to other salary-setting authorities.
• Exempt appointees whose salaries are set by statute (Govt. Code sections 11550, 11552, and 11554) and specified exempt employees whose salaries have been significantly increased.

Updated August 31, 2007 at 9:10 AM.