APS Employee Census 2025
In 2025, 107 agencies and entities that engage staff under the Public Service Act 1999 participated in the APS Employee Census. A total of 151,771 APS employees responded with a response rate of 81 per cent. The APS Employee Census ran from Monday 5 May to Friday 6 June 2025.
What is the APS Employee Census?
The APS Employee Census is an annual employee perception survey of the Australian Public Service workforce that has been conducted since 2012. The APS Employee Census collects employee opinions and perspectives on a range of topics, such as employee engagement, leadership, communication, innovation, and wellbeing.
All eligible employees engaged under the Public Service Act 1999 are invited to participate.
Where can I find more information?
The 2025 APS Employee Census questionnaire can be found here: 2025 APS Employee Census questionnaire.
Further information on the APS Employee Census and how to interpret results can be found in the Employee Census Explanatory Guide.
The 2025 Participant Information sheet details what is involved in participating in the APS Employee Census. The 2025 Participant FAQs provides information on frequent questions of the APS Employee Census.
The APSC Privacy Policy (Part A) provides information about the APSC's privacy practices. The APSC Privacy Policy (Part B) provides information about the kinds of personal information usually collected and held by the Commission.
The 2012 to 2024 APS Employee Census datasets are available on data.gov.au. To protect the privacy and confidentiality of respondents, the datasets include responses to a limited number of demographic or other attribute questions.
2025 Employee Census results
Results for all APS employees can be viewed here:
- 2025 APS Overall results (PDF - 1.1 MB)
- 2025 APS Overall results (XLSX - 47.68 KB)
Key findings
The 2025 APS Employee Census shows:
- 91% are happy to go the extra mile at work
- 88% are committed to their agency’s goals
- 88% believe strongly in the purpose and objectives of their agency
- 87% say their immediate supervisor cares about their health and wellbeing
- 84% say their agency supports and actively promotes an inclusive workplace culture
- 83% believe one of their responsibilities is to continually look for new ways to improve the way we work
- 81% agree the culture in their agency supports people to act with integrity.
Under the Public Service Act 1999, participating APS agencies are required to publish aggregate APS Employee Census results, along with an action plan responding to the results.
In late November 2025, results and action plans will be available on the respective agency’s website, and collated centrally on this page.
More information on agency size and function is available here: APS Agencies – size and function.
Further information
For further information please contact the APSC Employee Census team on APSSurveys@apsc.gov.au or 1800 464 926.