Unless stated otherwise, this workforce data shows you numbers as at June 2022.
This data doesn't show the machinery of government changes that came into effect on 1 January 2023.
You can use the dropdown menu at the bottom of each chart to filter the data sets.
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 2018 to June 2022.
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 March 2015, the government made a Women on Boards commitment to increase the number of women on boards. The scope of this commitment was expanded in 2018 and again in 2021.
The refreshed commitment states that:
The commitment applies to Victorian courts and all boards except:
Major boards are the 333 larger public entity boards and exclude:
From 2015 to June 2022, women on major boards have gone up from 39% to 55%.
Women's representation has improved in most portfolio groups. For major boards, women remain under-represented only on boards in these groups:
See the portfolio breakdown in our data set.
Women on all boards have gone up from 36% at June 2018 to 40% at June 2022. This doesn’t include school councils where the data is unavailable.
There are low rates of representation of women on boards in these ministerial portfolio groups:
These 4 categories make up 1,590 or 45% of all boards and 10,653 or 34% 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 2022:
The age of 81% 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) when a person:
This data set covers June 2018 to June 2022.
We publish board and board member profile data from over 3,500 boards and about 31,000 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 2022 showing numbers by:
In the file, we’ve grouped school councils, small cemetery trusts and small land management committees together.