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.
We calculate new start rates and separation rates based on all ongoing and fixed-term employees hired in the year July 2020 to June 2021.
This includes all non-casual employees who started at or left their organisation, but excludes employees who started or left due to machinery of government transfers.
This graph shows the percentage of non-casual employees who started with a new employer between July 2020 and June 2021.
For example, 49% of employees under 25 years of age started during the 2020-21 financial year.
This graph shows a percentage breakdown of all the new starting and separating non-casual employees by age.
For example, of all the non-casual employees who started with a new employer during the 2020-21 financial year, 17% of them were under 25 years of age.
The Victorian Public Service is a single employer with common terms and conditions for employees, made up of:
As a large and diverse employer, Victorian Public Service employees can build satisfying careers across a service-wide structure.
In July 2019, the government set up the Jobs and Skills Exchange to support mobility in the Victorian Public Service.
Since its introduction along with a new recruitment policy, the number of people transferring between Victorian Public Service agencies has increased from 1,175 to 2,506.
Between 2020-21, 2,506 or 4.4% of all ongoing and fixed-term employees moved between Victorian Public Service employers.
The mobility rate between financial years:
In the People matter survey 2021 we asked respondents 'What is your career plan for the next 2 years?'.
We found that:
This data set covers June 2016 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 number and rate of non-casual public sector employees separating and commencing each financial year by: