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Employment arrangements
Facts, visuals and data on employment arrangements including ongoing, fixed-term or casual contracts.
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:
Victorian Public Service (VPS): the 9 departments, Victoria Police (VPS employees) and 46 authorities and offices defined to be Victorian Public Service employers under the Public Administration Act 2004
Public sector industry groups: all other public sector bodies outside the VPS that have a public function, grouped together by industry.
Overall public sector workforce: VPS and public sector industries combined.
The industry groups are:
creative industries, finance, transport and other
government schools
police and emergency services
public health care
TAFE and other education
water and land management.
At the end of this page, find Excel datasets for June 2018 to June 2022.
Ongoing, fixed-term and casual employment by industry group
Overall public sector
fixed-term employment rose by 1,570 or 2.4% (headcount)
fixed-term employees represent 19.2% of employees, the same as at June 2021
ongoing employment rose by 4,200 or 1.6% (headcount)
ongoing employees represent 73.5% of employees, a fall from 74.2% at June 2021.
Victorian Public Service
fixed-term employment fell by 2,137 or 13.4% (headcount)
fixed-term employees represent 24.5% of employees, a fall from 27.3% at June 2021
ongoing employment rose by 201 or 0.5% (headcount)
ongoing employees represent 74.2% of employees, a rise from 71.2% at June 2021.
Impact of COVID-19
The number of fixed-term employees rose in 2020-21 in response to COVID-19. In 2021-22 many COVID-19 programs and initiatives ended resulting in less demand for fixed-term employees.
