Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees

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 diversity data, we’ve analysed results from the People matter survey 2022 and the School gender equality survey to estimate numbers for the overall public sector workforce.

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.

Read more about how we define the public sector or see the full list of public sector agencies.