Unless stated otherwise, this workforce data shows you numbers as at June 2021.
For some visuals, we give you a breakdown of the data by:
The industry groups are:
At the end of this page, find Excel datasets for June 2015 to June 2021.
Read more about how we define the public sector or see the full list of public sector agencies.
Public sector boards are responsible for the strategic direction, governance and risk management of Victorian public sector entities in line with the relevant legislation.
They can include boards of governance of public entities and advisory bodies.
Board members are senior leaders of the public sector.
Read more about the role of boards
In the past, women were under-represented on major Victorian public sector boards.
So in March 2015, the government set a 50% target that all new appointments to major boards be women.
Major boards are the 338 larger public entity boards and exclude:
From 2015 to June 2021, women on major boards have gone up from 39% to 55%.
Based on a portfolio breakdown, women's representation has improved in most portfolios. For major boards, women remain under-represented only in boards in the Planning and Local Government portfolio group, where 44% are women.
See the portfolio breakdown in our data set.
Women on all boards have gone up from 36% at June 2018 to 40% at June 2021. This doesn’t include school councils, as the data is unavailable.
There are low rates of representation of women on boards at:
These 2 categories make up 1,586 or 45% of all boards and 10,615 or 33% of all board members. These contribute to the overall representation of women on boards.
Most cemetery trust and Crown land committee of management boards:
From June 2018 to June 2021:
The age of 82% of all board members, mainly from school councils and small committees of management, isn't available.
Percentage breakdown of board members:
Diversity data, location and volunteer status aren't collected for school councils.
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander data and culturally and linguistically diverse status data aren't collected for small committees of management.
We define culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) if a person is:
This data set covers June 2018 to June 2021.
We publish board and board member profile data from over 3,500 boards and about 32,000 board members.
We source this data from the Government Appointments and Public Entities Database (GAPED).
This file shows the number of Victorian public sector boards and the number of board members for each portfolio department and ministerial portfolio.
The file also has a list of Victorian public sector boards showing:
It also has a profile of board members for each department and ministry portfolio from June 2018 to 2021 showing numbers by:
In the file, we’ve grouped school councils, small cemetery trusts and small land management committees together.