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Mobility in the public service
Facts, figures and visuals on employees moving across organisations in the Victorian Public Service (VPS).
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 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.
Figures on this page include:
employees who move from one public sector agency to another
ongoing and fixed-term staff, but not casuals
mobility rates: employees who moved from one Victorian Public Service agency to another Victorian Public Service agency.
At the end of this page, find Excel datasets for June 2018 to June 2022.
Mobility rates in the Victorian Public Service, non-casual employees
The Victorian Public Service is a single employer with common terms and conditions for employees, made up of:
9 departments
Victoria Police
46 offices and authorities
As a large and diverse employer, Victorian Public Service employees can build satisfying careers across a service-wide structure.
In July 2019, the government set up the Jobs and Skills Exchange to support mobility in the Victorian Public Service.
Since its introduction along with a new recruitment policy, the number of people transferring between Victorian Public Service agencies has increased from 1,175 to 2,612.
Victorian Public Service new starters who came from another Victorian Public Service employer
The proportion of non-casual Victorian Public Service (VPS) new starters who came from another VPS employer rose to 19.6% in 2021-22 from 15.8% in 2020-21.
The number of new starters who came from another VPS employer has been increasing each year.
Mobility rate
The mobility rate is the proportion of all active non-casual employees who moved between Victorian Public Service employers.
In the 2021-22 year, 2,612 or 4.7% of all ongoing and fixed-term employees moved between Victorian Public Service employers.
