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Upward Mobility

The State of California's Upward Mobility Program is a career mobility program designed to give state employees in low-paying entry-level classifications an opportunity to advance to entry-level technical, professional, and administrative classifications. The Upward Mobility Pay Scale Report lists the relevant classifications for each department.

Each state agency is required to have an effective Upward Mobility Program.

If you are a state employee in a low-paying entry-level position and interested in participating in the Upward Mobility Program, please contact your department's Upward Mobility Program Coordinator.

Departments are advised to review and incorporate the contents of the Guidelines for Administering Departmental Upward Mobility Programs into their Upward Mobility Program procedures as part of their obligation to develop an effective Upward Mobility Program. 

As required by Government Code section 19402 and California Code of Regulations, title 2, section 599.985, departments must track their Upward Mobility Program efforts and report them to the California Department of Human Resources (CalHR)  as part of their Annual Workforce Analysis.  The annual report should include the following:

  • List of relevant classifications used by their department.
  • Number of employees participating in the Upward Mobility Program.
  • Number of employees expected to progress from low-paying entry-level classifications to higher-level technical, professional, and administrative classifications.
  • Upward Mobility training budget.
  • Annual Upward Mobility goals.

Please contact Workforce.Analysis@calhr.ca.gov for inquiries regarding Upward Mobility data and reporting requirements.      


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