Age, gender and part-time arrangements

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:

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

Key facts

Women make up:

Part-time employment accounts for:

7.8% of women work part-time compared to 2.4% of men.

From July 2021 to June 2022, 53% of appointees to Victorian Public Service executive roles were women.

In 2016, the government set a target to have 50% women appointed as Victorian Public Service executives.

‘Appointed’ means:

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:

executive headcount by industry, gender, age group and classification band
executive median remuneration and headcount for each remuneration cohort, by industry group, gender and classification band.

It also has:

total number of executives for each departmental portfolio group by gender
total number of Victorian Public Service executives for each Victorian Public Service organisation by gender.