Employee pay

Unless stated otherwise, this workforce data shows you numbers for non-casual employees, including executives 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:

At the end of this page, find Excel datasets for June 2018 to June 2022.

Key facts

$93,360 is the median salary of non-casual public sector employees, including executives
$103,463 is the median salary of non-casual Victorian Public Service employees, including executives.

There are over 145 enterprise agreements that cover all non-executive employees in the Victorian public sector.

The agreements set employee pay, terms and conditions. They differ based on industry group, employer and occupation.

Agreements are made under the Commonwealth Fair Work Act.

Executive remuneration is set by the Victorian Independent Remuneration Tribunal. See data, facts and visuals on executive remuneration, pay bands and the gender pay gap.

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 remuneration measures, based on full-time base salaries for non-casual Victorian public sector employees:

median base salary and distribution of employees within each salary band by industry, gender and Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander identity
median base salary for each major occupation in public entities by gender
mean base salary for each Victorian Public Service classification by gender
median base salary for each Victorian Public Service classification by gender.