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Employee and executive pay, leave and work arrangements 2023

Data and insights on employee, executive pay, leave and work arrangements across the Victorian public sector.


  • Employee occupations and pay grades 2023

    Employee numbers by occupation and pay grade.

  • Employee personal leave 2023

    Personal leave taken by public sector employees.

  • Employment arrangements 2023

    Number of employees and executives who are ongoing, fixed-term or casual and work full-time or part-time.

  • Employee pay and gender pay 2023

    Employee pay, conditions, pay by gender and the gender pay gap.

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    Employees who work in rural and regional Victoria and Greater Metropolitan Melbourne.

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    New starter, separation and mobility rates of public sector employees.

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Workforce data (state of the public sector) 2024

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    • Employee and executive pay, leave and work arrangements 2024
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  • Employee diversity and inclusion 2024
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    • 2022 Workforce data, facts and visuals (state of the public sector)
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    • 2022 People matter survey data, facts and visuals (state of the public sector)
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      • Organisation climate
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    • 2021 Workforce data, facts and visuals
      • 2021 Workforce data, facts and visuals
      • Employee numbers
      • Employee numbers by public sector organisation
      • Employee turnover and mobility
      • Employee pay and gender pay
      • Employment arrangements, pay grades and occupations
      • Employee work location
      • Employee demographics and diversity
      • Employee personal leave
      • Executive numbers, gender and remuneration
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    • 2021 People matter survey data
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      • Organisation climate and support
      • Employee and manager experiences
      • Public sector values
      • Employee wellbeing
      • Drivers of wellbeing
      • Negative behaviour
      • Demographics and diversity
      • Results by public sector organisation
    • 2020 Workforce data, facts and visuals
      • 2020 Workforce data, facts and visuals
      • Employee numbers
      • Employee numbers by public sector organisation
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      • Employee pay and gender pay
      • Employee work status, gender and age
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    • 2020 People matter survey
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      • Negative behaviour
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    • Data Insights: A decade of public sector workforce data
    • Workforce planning risks and challenges in the Victorian public sector
    • Mapping a safety culture in the Victorian public health care sector
    • Sick leave in the public sector research report 2006-07 to 2011-12
    • SOPSIV by the numbers 2016-2017
    • Data Insights: Women in Public Executive Roles
    • Data Insights: Becoming a better workplace for people with disabilities
    • Data Insights: Employee engagement in the Victorian Public Sector
    • Data Insights: Bullying in the Victorian Public Sector
    • Data insights: workplace cultural diversity and inclusiveness part 1
    • Data insights: workplace cultural diversity and inclusiveness part 2

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Reviewed 4 April 2025

Published 4 April 2025

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