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.
At June 2022, there were:
Executives make up:
Executives are the senior leaders of the public sector workforce. They work in a complex and changing environment to deliver on the Government’s priorities.
Collectively, executives manage billions of dollars of assets, huge budgets and large workforces. They oversee the delivery of critical policies and services and manage considerable risk.
A Victorian Public Service executive is employed under Part 3 of the Public Administration Act 2004.
A public entity executive is either:
At June 2022, the base remuneration for executives in the Victorian public sector was $199,014.
From 2021 to 2022, the number of Victorian Public Service executives rose to meet demands for leadership in social policy areas and to help manage the impacts of COVID-19.
In 2022, many COVID-19 programs and initiatives came to an end and the growth in executive numbers started to decline.
Victorian Public Service:
Public entities:
Machinery of Government impacts, July 2019 to June 2020
Executive growth in 2018 to 2019 includes the transfer of 90 executives:
This data set covers June 2018 to June 2022.
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 executive profile measures for the Victorian public sector:
It also has: