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State of the Service Report 2022-23

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Employee headcount An infographic displaying key statistics from the 2023 APS Employee Census and 30 June 2023 APSED data release. Employee headcount has increased 6.9% since 30 June 2022 to 170,332, of which 151,055 are ongoing employees and 19,277 are non-ongoing employees. There were 22,031 ongoing engagements and 11,798 ongoing separations during this period.

 

By classification	 An infographic displaying key statistics from the 2023 APS Employee Census and 30 June 2023 APSED data release. The APS 6 classification level has the highest proportion of employees at 22.9%, whilst the ACT has the highest number and proportion of employees at 64,943 (38.1%).
Diversity - An infographic displaying key statistics from the 2023 APS Employee Census and 30 June 2023 APSED data release. Overall, 60.4% of the APS are women; 3.5% identify as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander; 7.7% consider themselves to be neurodivergent; 5.1% have an ongoing disability; 8.7% identify as LGBTIQA+; 24.4% first language spoken was not exclusively English; and 23.9% are born outside of Australia.
Patterns of work An infographic displaying key statistics from the 2023 APS Employee Census and 30 June 2023 APSED data release. Nearly 83% of employees work full-time, whilst 12.7% work part-time and 4.5% are casual employees.
Proportion of employees by age – An infographic displaying key statistics from the 2023 APS Employee Census and 30 June 2023 APSED data release. The 35–44 age group has the highest proportion of employees at 27.4%, followed closely by the 45–54 age group at 27.1%. The 25–34 age group has the next highest proportion of employees at 20.9%, then 19.0% in the 55 and over age group. The younger age groups of 20–24 and under 20 have proportions of 5.0% and 0.5% respectively.
Proportion of employees by classification - An infographic displaying key statistics from the 2023 APS Employee Census and 30 June 2023 APSED data release. The APS 6 classification level has the highest proportion of employees at 22.9%, whilst the ACT has the highest number and proportion of employees at 64,943 (38.1%).
Number and proportion of employees by location infographic. The ACT has the highest number and proportion of employees at 64,943 (38.1%). The next highest number and proportion of employees are VIC at 28,536 (16.8%), NSW at 28,285 (16.6%), and QLD at 21,557 at 12.7%. The other states and territories have lower number and proportions of employees: SA at 11,259 (6.6%), WA at 8,144 (4.8%), TAS at 4,187 (2.5%), the NT at 2,014 (1.2%) and Overseas at 1,407 (0.8%).

 

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