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.
There are over 145 enterprise agreements that cover all non-executive employees in the Victorian public sector.
The agreements set employee pay, terms and conditions.
They differ based on industry group, employer and occupation.
Agreements are made under the Commonwealth Fair Work Act.
We use the overall pay gap between women and men as a way to measure workplace gender equality.
Using the overall public sector workforce as an example, this is how we measure the pay gap:
So the pay gap for the public sector is 9.3%.
The pay gap is a result of the uneven distribution of men and women across pay bands and roles.
Each pay group represents a third of the overall public sector workforce:
Roles in the lowest pay group are mostly filled by women and include:
Roles in the highest pay group include:
More women than men are employed in each pay group, overall but the proportion of men in the highest pay group is higher than the proportion of women.
For example:
You can use the graph to view the number or percentage of men and women in each pay group.
Unlike the overall public sector workforce, men are women are more evenly distributed across the 3 pay groups.
Each pay group represents a third of the total Victorian Public Service workforce:
Changes in gender pay:
The changes are primarily due to an increase in men employed in new fixed-term roles at COVID Quarantine Victoria.
More women than men are employed overall but the proportion of men in the highest pay group is higher than the proportion of women.
For example:
You can use the graph to view the number or percentage of men and women in each group.
The gender pay gap in each VPS grade is small.
This data set covers June 2015 to June 2021.
We source this data from our annual workforce and executive data collections that cover over 1,800 Victorian public sector employers.
This file has the following remuneration measures, based on full-time base salaries for non-casual Victorian public sector employees: