How RealWage Measures State Worker Pay

Name: California state employee pay, authorized and actual
Creator: RealWage
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

See how RealWage measures pay, inflation, market wages and affordability, where every figure comes from and what the evidence can and cannot show.

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Every table behind this site, as CSV. The RealWage compilation is licensed CC BY 4.0. The underlying records are public data, and each source agency states its own reuse terms. When you republish a figure from these files, cite RealWage and link back. Read data-dictionary.csv first: it names every column of every file, its unit, and the caveats that apply to it.

Authorized pay scales, current: Every civil service classification and alternate range at the authorized salary range it holds now, one row per pay line.
Authorized pay scales, full history: Every authorized salary range CalHR has published for a civil service classification, one row per class, alternate range and effective date. The series starts in 1971.
Salary adjustments by bargaining unit: The reconciled event layer: general salary increases, special salary adjustments, lump sums, and the 1991 range reduction with its restoration, by bargaining unit and effective date.
Pay Letter events as parsed: Salary adjustments read straight out of CalHR Pay Letters, each with the page and the wording the figure came from.
Consumer price index, annual: The annual price index values used to deflate pay, by region and year, with the source series and how many months of each year were published.
Data dictionary: Every column of every file in this set, with its type, its unit, and the caveats that apply to the file.
State workforce actuals, 2009: State Controller's Office payroll actuals for calendar year 2009: headcount and pay statistics for every position in every department. Pay cells are blank where fewer than ten people held the position.
State workforce actuals, 2010: State Controller's Office payroll actuals for calendar year 2010: headcount and pay statistics for every position in every department. Pay cells are blank where fewer than ten people held the position.
State workforce actuals, 2011: State Controller's Office payroll actuals for calendar year 2011: headcount and pay statistics for every position in every department. Pay cells are blank where fewer than ten people held the position.
State workforce actuals, 2012: State Controller's Office payroll actuals for calendar year 2012: headcount and pay statistics for every position in every department. Pay cells are blank where fewer than ten people held the position.
State workforce actuals, 2013: State Controller's Office payroll actuals for calendar year 2013: headcount and pay statistics for every position in every department. Pay cells are blank where fewer than ten people held the position.
State workforce actuals, 2014: State Controller's Office payroll actuals for calendar year 2014: headcount and pay statistics for every position in every department. Pay cells are blank where fewer than ten people held the position.
State workforce actuals, 2015: State Controller's Office payroll actuals for calendar year 2015: headcount and pay statistics for every position in every department. Pay cells are blank where fewer than ten people held the position.
State workforce actuals, 2016: State Controller's Office payroll actuals for calendar year 2016: headcount and pay statistics for every position in every department. Pay cells are blank where fewer than ten people held the position.
State workforce actuals, 2017: State Controller's Office payroll actuals for calendar year 2017: headcount and pay statistics for every position in every department. Pay cells are blank where fewer than ten people held the position.
State workforce actuals, 2018: State Controller's Office payroll actuals for calendar year 2018: headcount and pay statistics for every position in every department. Pay cells are blank where fewer than ten people held the position.
State workforce actuals, 2019: State Controller's Office payroll actuals for calendar year 2019: headcount and pay statistics for every position in every department. Pay cells are blank where fewer than ten people held the position.
State workforce actuals, 2020: State Controller's Office payroll actuals for calendar year 2020: headcount and pay statistics for every position in every department. Pay cells are blank where fewer than ten people held the position.
State workforce actuals, 2021: State Controller's Office payroll actuals for calendar year 2021: headcount and pay statistics for every position in every department. Pay cells are blank where fewer than ten people held the position.
State workforce actuals, 2022: State Controller's Office payroll actuals for calendar year 2022: headcount and pay statistics for every position in every department. Pay cells are blank where fewer than ten people held the position.
State workforce actuals, 2023: State Controller's Office payroll actuals for calendar year 2023: headcount and pay statistics for every position in every department. Pay cells are blank where fewer than ten people held the position.
State workforce actuals, 2024: State Controller's Office payroll actuals for calendar year 2024: headcount and pay statistics for every position in every department. Pay cells are blank where fewer than ten people held the position.
State workforce actuals, 2025: State Controller's Office payroll actuals for calendar year 2025: headcount and pay statistics for every position in every department. Pay cells are blank where fewer than ten people held the position.