persons - Source frequency: semiannual · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's federal workforce headcount was 131k persons as of December 2020. Total Australian Public Service headcount by agency and classification level (APS1-6, EL1-2, SES1-3). Includes ongoing and non-ongoing staff. Shows the size and shape of the public service — which agencies are growing, which are shrinking, and the ratio of senior to junior staff. Data is sourced from APSC APS Employment Database (data.gov.au) and updated every six months.
Total Australian Public Service headcount by agency and classification level (APS1-6, EL1-2, SES1-3). Includes ongoing and non-ongoing staff.
Shows the size and shape of the public service — which agencies are growing, which are shrinking, and the ratio of senior to junior staff.
Context-dependent
Source: APSC APS Employment Database (data.gov.au)
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (APSC APS Employment Database (data.gov.au)), updated every six months. Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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