Education Code § 42238.016

(a)The department shall, on or before July 1, 2026, create a data collection system for salary and benefits data for represented certificated and classified nonmanagement employees. The data collected shall include salary, benefits, and full-time equivalent employee counts for certificated employees and for employees in the following classified bargaining unit classifications, which shall be collected in the same manner as for certificated employees, as determined by the department:

(1)Entry level schoolsite secretary or administrative assistant.

(2)Entry level central office secretary or administrative assistant.

(3)Entry

level custodian.

(4)Entry level bus driver.

(5)Entry level food service worker.

(6)Entry level special education instructional aide.

(7)Entry level general education instructional aide.

(b)(1) On or before August 31, 2026, and on or before July 1 annually thereafter, school districts, county offices of education, and direct-funded charter schools as described in Section 47651 shall complete the data collection process created pursuant to subdivision

(a)and report the data to the department. A school district or county office of education that is the chartering authority or designated oversight agency of a locally funded charter school as described in Section 47651 shall complete and report the data to the department for the locally funded charter school.

(2)(A) For the 2026–27 fiscal year, the department shall make the data for the immediate prior fiscal year submitted by school districts, county offices of education, and direct-funded charter schools pursuant to this section publicly available in a downloadable open file data format by February 26, 2027.

(B)Commencing with the 2027–28 fiscal year, the department shall make the data for the immediate prior fiscal year submitted by school districts, county offices of

education, and direct-funded charter schools publicly available in a downloadable open file data format pursuant to this section by December 31 of each year.

(c)On or before January 31, 2027, and on or before November 30 annually thereafter, the department shall report to the Legislature, in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code, on the progress of school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools in increasing salaries for classified employees and certificated employees. This report shall include the following:

(1)The change in salary rates for certificated employees as compared to the last 10 fiscal years or, if the data has been filed for fewer than 10 fiscal years, whichever year the data was filed for first.

(2)The change in salary rates for classified

employees as compared to the last 10 fiscal years or, if the data has been filed for fewer than 10 fiscal years, whichever year the data was filed for first.

(3)The salary rate changes year over year.

(4)The rate of salary change compared to the rate of yearly inflation as measured by the percentage change in the annual average value of the Implicit Price Deflator for State and Local Government Purchases of Goods and Services for the United States, as published by the United States Department of Commerce for the 12-month period ending in the third quarter of the prior fiscal year.

(5)The rate of total compensation changes year over year.

(d)For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:

(1)“Classified bargaining unit classification” does not include, for purposes of determining employees in that classification, confidential employees as defined in Section 3540.1 of the Government Code.

(2)“Full-time equivalent” means, for classified employees, the total number of full-time equivalent employees in the local educational agency, with the number of full-time equivalent employees in each classified bargaining unit classification computed as the sum of both of the following:

(A)The sum of the full-time equivalent of employees who work full-time hours in each work day, as defined by the local educational agency, in that classification. Each of these employees shall count as 1.0 full-time equivalent.

(B)The sum of the full-time equivalent of

employees who work less than full-time hours in each work day, as defined by the local educational agency, in that classification. The full-time equivalent of these employees shall be calculated by dividing the number of hours each employee works each day in that classification by the number of full-time hours.

(3)“Salary” means the hourly wage paid for work by classified employees or the annual wage paid for work by certificated employees.