Age, disability and education

Key facts

Overall public sector workforce employees

• 42.4 years is the average age
• 74% have a bachelor’s degree or higher
• 5.1% identify as a person with disability (estimate).

Victorian Public Service employees

• 42.6 years is the average age
• 7.8% identify as a person with disability (estimate)

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Age

Year 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2017 Filter by industry Whole of public sector Public entities Victorian Public Service Creative industries, finance, transport and other Police and emergency services Public health care TAFE and other education Water and land management Government schools Filter by demographic Overall Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Age Full-time or part-time Ongoing, fixed-term or casual Ongoing or fixed-term Cultural identity Disability Gender Gender identity Religion Headcount Full-time equivalent Employers Percentage of all employees by headcount Percentage of all full-time equivalent employees Remuneration Remuneration gap as an amount Remuneration gap as a percentage View as a number or percentage Percentage Number Salary Percentage of industry Percentage of total public sector workforce

 

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Education, bachelor’s degree or higher, 2021

The percentage of employees with a bachelor’s degree or higher:

• 74% of the overall public sector workforce
• 35% of the Victorian population aged 15 to 74.

This data was calculated by combining the number of teachers in government schools in 2021 with data from the People matter survey 2021.

 

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Disability

Estimated number of employees who identify as a person with disability

The Victorian Government has a plan to increase the number of people with disability in the public sector called Getting to work.

Getting to work is Victoria’s long-term employment plan for people with disability in the public sector.

The plan supports a target of 6% representation of people with disability in the Victorian Public Service by 2020 and 12% by 2025.

The percentage of employees who identify as a person with disability:

• 7.8% of Victorian Public Service respondents to the People matter survey 2022
• 5.1% of overall public sector employees (estimate)
• 7.3% of employed Victorians aged 15 to 64.

Year 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2017 Filter by industry Whole of public sector Public entities Victorian Public Service Creative industries, finance, transport and other Police and emergency services Public health care TAFE and other education Water and land management Government schools Filter by demographic Overall Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Age Full-time or part-time Ongoing, fixed-term or casual Ongoing or fixed-term Cultural identity Disability Gender Gender identity Religion Headcount Full-time equivalent Employers Percentage of all employees by headcount Percentage of all full-time equivalent employees Remuneration Remuneration gap as an amount Remuneration gap as a percentage View as a number or percentage Percentage Number Salary Percentage of industry Percentage of total public sector workforce

 

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Data sources:

• estimated percentage of public sector employees: derived from People matter survey 2022 and the school gender equality survey 2021
• employed Victorians aged 15 to 64: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Disability, Ageing and Carers: Summary of Findings, 2018.

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Data set

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.

Age profile

This file has the following age profile measures for Victorian public sector employees by gender and industry group:

• average age
• median age
• headcount by age group.

Download age profile data set (XLSX, 95kb)