For our estimates, we classify a frontline worker as a Victorian Public Service (VPS) or sector employee who directly delivers services to the public or community as primary function of their role (at least 70% of the time). Service delivery may or may not be in person.
We worked closely with departments to:
We note that ANZSCO descriptions are applied as a proxy to determine the occupational profile of the VPS.
We use some key terms to breakdown our data and charts. These include:
You can use the dropdown menu at the bottom of each chart to filter the data sets by the public sector industry groups:
Some charts include breakdowns from previous years, while others only show the most recently available data. This is because some data points are new or can’t be compared to earlier releases.
Read more about how we define the public sector or see the full list of public sector employers.
We've sourced the 2024 data from:
The People matter survey data:
The order of the data doesn't reflect a preference for any organisation, industry or demographic.
We reserve the right to change or correct information at any time.
For demographic data sourced from the People matter survey, the Commission uses strict rules to protect the privacy and anonymity of respondents at every stage of the survey.
We don’t release employee opinion results for demographic groups where industries have less than 30 total responses.
We included a ‘prefer not to say’ option for some demographic questions.
Respondents may choose ‘prefer not to say’ for a range of reasons.
Read our privacy policy.
Due to rounding, the breakdown of some numbers won’t add up to 100.