Actually, it depends on who sent you the W-2.
If the W-2 was sent to you by the insurance company underwriting the Paid Family Leave policy for your employer, then, yes, the entire box 1 amount from the W-2 belongs in this CA screen.
However, it is unfortunately much more common that employees are told that they got PFL from their employer so it is included on their regular W-2 from their employer.
In this case, you should put zero in that box on the California screen asking for PFL wages, UNLESS your employer swears up and down that part of the Wages on your employer's W-2 was actually a pass-though amount from the insurance company, in which case, you would enter only the pass-through amount.
The problem is that the term Paid Family Leave is used very loosely, and a great deal of what is called PFL in California is not actual PFL under state tax law.
As I note above (from July, 2020), you get PFL three ways in California:
1. a 1099-G from CA EDD (most common)
2. a W-2 from your employer's insurance company (less common)
3. A pass-through amount in your employer's W-2 (not common at all).
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