Public Sector Employees

In reply to the Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee) (21 September 2018). (Estimates Committee B)

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (Treasurer): I have been advised of the following:

The Office of the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment (OCPSE) publishes the Workforce Information Report (the Report), the official record of the size and composition of the South Australian Public Sector workforce as at June each year.

Workforce information for the 2018-19 financial year will be published in the second half of 2019. Information for the previous year is available in the 2017-18 report accessible at:

https://publicsector.sa.gov.au/about/office-for-the-public-sector/workforce-information/.

The size of the public sector workforce as at 30 June 2018 is presented in table 1 of the report. Table 1 reports workforce data as headcount and Full Time Equivalent, and for each individual agency in the public sector.

Table 3(b) breaks down the public sector workforce by appointment type (ongoing, short term, long term, or other). This table presents the number of employees as headcount. Data aggregated by FTE and agency is not published in the report.

Table 9 details the number of executives across the public sector, by headcount. A breakdown of executives by FTE, agency and appointment type is not published in the report.

The report and interactive dashboards with selected workforce data for each agency are available on the OCPSE website at publicsector.sa.gov.au.