Methodology
All APS agencies were required to report data for all employees that were employed under s22 and s72 of the Public Service Act 1999 (PS Act) as at the 31 December 2013. Although it was collected, data on trainees and cadets are excluded from the findings in this report. Unless noted in the tables, ongoing and non–ongoing employees are grouped together.
This report covers most staff employed under s22(a), s22(b) and s72 of the PS Act as at 31 December 2013 —employees on leave without pay (LWOP) are excluded. This report excludes Casuals under s22(2)(c), Locally Engaged Employees under the PS Act s74, Agency Heads, and office holders whose remuneration is set by the Remuneration Tribunal.
To ensure that the data received was accurate, data from agencies was checked by APSED staff. Any discrepancies identified were returned to agencies for correction and resubmission. At the conclusion of the cleaning process, a summary of the agency’s data was sent to an SES level employee or Director of HR who certified that their agency’s summary data was accurate. Only then was the dataset finalised.
Data in this report should not be used to calculate past or present populations of the APS. For accurate population data as at December 2013, please refer to the snAPShots data available on the APSC website. For June data, refer to the APS Statistical Bulletin, also produced by the APS Commission.
Part-time employees’ data has been changed to full-time equivalent (FTE) and, for many variables, employees who have worked only part of the year (though active as at 31 December) have had their data annualised. This ensures that each employee’s data has equal weighting.
Employees who started a graduate program in 2013 are shown as a ‘Graduate’, even if they had advanced to an operational classification by 31 December. For the latter employees, remuneration is at their last day as a Graduate.
The columns of the tables may not add up because TRP and TR are calculated separately for each individual employee and it is these values that determine the median. Therefore, the median TR figure will not necessarily be the sum of all median values of the components which make up TR. It will be the median value of TR for all employees.
Data values published in the 2012 APS Remuneration Report have had a small revision and the revised values have been incorporated in this Report. Please note that a very small number of values for data as at December 2012 will not match across the 2012 and the 2013 Reports.
Definitions
The following statistical terms are determined by ordering the data values in ascending order:
Example: values ranging from 1 to 20 inclusive
The tables in this report were prepared using SAS. There are many methods used to determine the median, quartiles and percentiles. Where a data point falls between two values, the method used in this report takes the mean of those two values.
TRP = Base Salary | + (plus) |
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Agency superannuation contribution | |
Motor vehicle cost/EVS | |
Cash in lieu of motor vehicle | |
Motor vehicle parking | |
Other benefits | |
Other supplementary payments not otherwise described |
TR = TRP | + (plus) |
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Actual performance bonus paid in previous 12 months | |
Actual retention bonus payments paid in previous 12 months | |
Productivity bonus | |
Sign on bonuses | |
Group or whole of agency performance bonus and allowances |
TR + A = TR | + (plus) |
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Additional duties/responsibilities allowances | |
Qualifications and/or skills based allowances | |
Market related allowances, specific job | |
Market related allowances, specific individual | |
Superannuation allowances | |
Income maintenance allowance | |
Hours of duty allowances | |
Expense allowances | |
Geographic/locality allowances | |
Disability allowances | |
Health and lifestyle allowances | |
Individual performance related allowances | |
Annual leave loading |
How to read a box plot:
The size of the squares in relation to each other also reveals how evenly distributed the data values are. For example, looking at the Agency bar in the plot above, the lower two squares (P5 to Median) are shorter than the two above (Median to P95). This indicates that there is a smaller range in values for the bottom 45% compared to the top 45%. The APS bar illustrates that the APS data values appear to be more evenly distributed as all four squares appear to be of similar length.
APS agencies
Aboriginal Hostels Limited |
Australian Securities and Investments Commission |
Administrative Appeals Tribunal |
Australian Skills Quality Authority |
Agriculture |
Australian Sports Anti–Doping Authority |
Attorney General's Department |
Australian Taxation Office |
Australian Bureau of Statistics |
Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) |
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research |
Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre |
Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity |
Australian Transport Safety Bureau |
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care |
Australian War Memorial |
Australian Communications and Media Authority |
Bureau of Meteorology |
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission |
Cancer Australia |
Australian Crime Commission |
Clean Energy Regulator |
Australian Customs & Border Protection Service |
Climate Change Authority |
Australian Electoral Commission |
Comcare |
Australian Financial Security Authority |
Commonwealth Grants Commission |
Australian Fisheries Management Authority |
Commonwealth Superannuation Administration (ComSuper) |
Australian Human Rights Commission |
Communications |
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies |
Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee |
Australian Institute of Criminology |
CrimTrac Agency |
Australian Institute of Family Studies |
Defence |
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Defence Housing Australia |
Australian Law Reform Commission |
Education |
Australian National Audit Office |
Employment |
Australian National Maritime Museum |
Environment |
Australian National Preventive Health Agency |
Fair Work Building and Construction |
Australian Office of Financial Management |
Fair Work Commission |
Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority |
Family Court and Federal Circuit Court |
Australian Public Service Commission |
Federal Court of Australia |
Australian Radiation Protection & Nuclear Safety Agency |
Finance |
Australian Research Council |
Food Standards Australia New Zealand |
Foreign Affairs and Trade |
National Portrait Gallery |
Future Fund Management Agency |
National Water Commission |
Geoscience Australia |
Office of National Assessments |
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority |
Office of Parliamentary Counsel |
Health |
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner |
Human Services |
Office of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions |
Immigration and Border Protection |
Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman |
Independent Hospital Pricing Authority |
Office of the Fair Work Ombudsman |
Industry |
Office of the Inspector General of Intelligence and Security |
Infrastructure and Regional Development |
Office of the Inspector–General of Taxation |
IP Australia |
Old Parliament House |
Migration Review Tribunal and Refugee Review Tribunal |
Organ and Tissue Authority |
Murray–Darling Basin Authority |
Prime Minister and Cabinet |
National Archives of Australia |
Private Health Insurance Ombudsman |
National Blood Authority |
Productivity Commission |
National Capital Authority |
Professional Services Review |
National Competition Council |
Royal Australian Mint |
National Disability Insurance Agency |
Safe Work Australia |
National Film and Sound Archive |
Screen Australia |
National Health and Medical Research Council |
Social Services |
National Health Funding Body |
Telecommunications Universal Service Management Agency |
National Health Performance Authority |
Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency |
National Library of Australia |
Torres Strait Regional Authority |
National Mental Health Commission |
Treasury |
National Museum of Australia |
Veterans' Affairs |
Nat. Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority |
Workplace Gender Equality Agency |
Note: This list reflects the names of APS agencies having employees under the PS Act as at 31 December 2013. Some agencies may have changed name or have been affected by Machinery of Government changes since then.