The comparative workforce data and executive officer data provided in this appendix are based on the following definitions:
- For DPC, an executive officer and member of the Senior Executive Service (SES) is defined as a person employed as an executive under Part 3 of the Public Administration Act.
- For a portfolio entity, an executive is defined as a person employed as an executive under Part 3 of the Public Administration Act or a person to whom the Victorian Government’s Public Entity Executive Remuneration Policy applies.
- The definition of an executive officer does not include a statutory office holder or an accountable officer, unless otherwise stated.
- Accountable officers include the DPC Secretary and administrative office heads.
The following tables disclose the headcount and full-time staff equivalent (FTE) of all active public service employees of DPC, the Office of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel, the Office of the Governor, and DPC staff supporting the Yoorrook Justice Commission.
Staff supporting the Yoorrook Justice Commission are employed by DPC. For reporting purposes Yoorrook Justice Commission staff are disclosed in a separate comparative workforce data table. In all other disclosures Yoorrook Justice Commission staff and executives are included in DPC data tables.
All figures in the tables reflect employment levels in the last full pay period of June 2024 and June 2023. Employees have been correctly classified in workforce data collections by the VPSC, which have been used to prepare this workforce data disclosure.
The following portfolio entities sit within DPC’s portfolio. The heads of these entities are public service body heads who employ public service employees independent of DPC’s Secretary. These entities are required to produce their own annual reports; therefore employee numbers are published in their annual reports:
- Victorian Electoral Commission
- Victorian Public Sector Commission
- VITS LanguageLoop.
Comparative workforce data
Details of DPC employment levels in 2024 and 2023
Annualised total salary, by $20,000 bands, for executives and other senior non-executive staff — DPC
| Income band (salary)1 | Executives | STS | PS | SMA | SRA | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| < $160,000 | ||||||
| $160,000–$179,999 | 1 | |||||
| $180,000–$199,999 | 16 | 3 | ||||
| $200,000–$219,999 | 20 | 4 | ||||
| $220,000–$239,999 | 5 | 3 | ||||
| $240,000–$259,999 | 9 | 1 | ||||
| $260,000–$279,999 | 4 | |||||
| $280,000–$299,999 | 4 | |||||
| $300,000–$319,999 | 1 | |||||
| $320,000–$339,999 | ||||||
| $340,000–$359,999 | 1 | |||||
| $360,000–$379,999 | ||||||
| $380,000–$399,999 | 1 | |||||
| $400,000–$419,999 | ||||||
| $420,000–$439,999 | 2 | |||||
| $440,000–$459,999 | 1 | |||||
| $460,000–$479,999 | 1 | |||||
| $480,000–$499,999 | ||||||
| > $500,000 | 1 | |||||
| Total | 66 | 12 |
Legend: STS: senior technical specialists; PS: principal scientists; SMA: senior medical advisers; SRA: senior regulatory analysts.
Notes:
- The salaries reported above are for the full financial year, at a 1-FTE rate, and exclude superannuation.
- The Secretary has been reported in the ‘Executives’ column for this table.
- Six executives supporting the Yoorrook Justice Commission are included in this table.
Details of the Office of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel employment levels in 2024 and 2023
Annualised total salary, by $20,000 bands, for executives and other senior non-executive staff — Office of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel
| Income band (salary) | Executives | STS | PS | SMA | SRA | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| < $160,000 | ||||||
| $160,000–$179,999 | 1 | |||||
| $180,000–$199,999 | 1 | |||||
| $200,000–$219,999 | ||||||
| $220,000–$239,999 | ||||||
| $240,000–$259,999 | 1 | 22 | ||||
| $260,000–$279,999 | ||||||
| $280,000–$299,999 | ||||||
| $300,000–$319,999 | 1 | |||||
| $320,000–$339,999 | ||||||
| $340,000–$359,999 | ||||||
| $360,000–$379,999 | ||||||
| $380,000–$399,999 | ||||||
| $400,000–$419,999 | 1 | |||||
| $420,000–$439,999 | ||||||
| $440,000–$459,999 | ||||||
| $460,000–$479,999 | ||||||
| $480,000–$499,999 | ||||||
| > $500,000 | ||||||
| Total | 4 | 3 |
Legend: STS: senior technical specialists; PS: principal scientists; SMA: senior medical advisers; SRA: senior regulatory analysts.
Notes:
- The salaries reported above are for the full financial year, at a 1-FTE rate, and exclude superannuation.
- The administrative office head has been reported in the ‘Executives’ column for this table.
Details of the Office of the Governor employment levels in 2024 and 2023
Annualised total salary, by $20,000 bands, for executives and other senior non-executive staff — Office of the Governor
| Income band (salary) | Executives | STS | PS | SMA | SRA | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| < $160,000 | ||||||
| $160,000–$179,999 | ||||||
| $180,000–$199,999 | 1 | |||||
| $200,000–$219,999 | ||||||
| $220,000–$239,999 | 1 | |||||
| $240,000–$259,999 | ||||||
| $260,000–$279,999 | ||||||
| $280,000–$299,999 | ||||||
| $300,000–$319,999 | ||||||
| $320,000–$339,999 | ||||||
| $340,000–$359,999 | ||||||
| $360,000–$379,999 | 1 | |||||
| $380,000–$399,999 | ||||||
| $400,000–$419,999 | ||||||
| $420,000–$439,999 | ||||||
| $440,000–$459,999 | ||||||
| $460,000–$479,999 | ||||||
| $480,000–$499,999 | ||||||
| > $500,000 | ||||||
| Total | 3 |
Legend: STS: senior technical specialists; PS: principal scientists; SMA: senior medical advisers; SRA: senior regulatory analysts.
Notes:
- The salaries reported above are for the full financial year, at a 1-FTE rate, and exclude superannuation.
- The administrative office head has been reported in the ‘Executives’ column for this table.
- There were no senior employees employed on a part-time basis.
Details of the Yoorrook Justice Commission employment levels in 2024 and 2023
Executive officer data
Accountable officers, including the DPC Secretary, and administrative office heads are excluded from the definition of an executive officer in the following tables.
The tables below disclose the variations in SES, broken down by gender, between the current and previous reporting periods for DPC, Yoorrook Justice Commission and public entities in DPC’s portfolio.
DPC Senior Executive Service numbers for 2024 and 20233
| Class | Men | Women | Self-described | Total | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2023 | Var | 2024 | 2023 | Var | 2024 | 2023 | Var | 2024 | 2023 | Var | |
| SES 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | (1) | - | - | - | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| SES 2 | 8 | 10 | (2) | 7 | 10 | (3) | - | - | - | 15 | 20 | (5) |
| SES 1 | 18 | 12 | 6 | 27 | 24 | 3 | - | - | - | 45 | 36 | 9 |
| Total | 30 | 24 | 6 | 35 | 36 | (1) | - | - | - | 65 | 60 | 5 |
DPC portfolio entity Senior Executive Service numbers for 2024 and 20234
The table below lists the total number of active executive officers for DPC’s portfolio entities as at the end of June 2024 and 2023, by gender. Accountable officers are excluded from this table.
| Public entity | Men | Women | Self-described | Total | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2023 | Var | 2024 | 2023 | Var | 2024 | 2023 | Var | 2024 | 2023 | Var | |||
| Victorian Electoral Commission | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 6 | 5 | 1 | ||
| Victorian Public Sector Commission | 1 | 1 | - | 7 | 8 | (1) | - | - | - | 8 | 9 | (1) | ||
| VITS LanguageLoop | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | ||
| Total | 6 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 11 | -1 | - | - | - | 16 | 16 | - | ||
The table below provides a reconciliation of executive numbers presented between the report of operations and the financial statements. The table excludes SES employed by the Office of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel, the Office of the Governor, and SES supporting the Yoorrook Justice Commission.
Reconciliation of DPC Senior Executive Service numbers
The number of executives shown in the report of operations is based on the number of active executives at the end of the financial year. An active executive is defined as an SES officer who attends work and is paid, or who is on paid leave during the last full pay period in June of the relevant year.
Note 8.3 in the financial statements lists the actual number of SES staff and the total remuneration paid to SES staff over the course of the reporting period. Note 8.3 in the financial statements includes SES staff who have separated from the department and SES staff who are inactive as at the end of June 2024.
To assist readers, Note 8.3 and the executive headcount reported in the report of operations are reconciled below.
| 2024 | 2023 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Executives (Financial Note 8.3) | 99 | 133 | |
| less | Separations5 | 25 | 60 |
| Portfolio agency executives6 | 5 | 7 | |
| Inactive DPC executives | 4 | 6 | |
| Total DPC executive numbers including Yoorrook Justice Commission staff7 | 65 | 60 | |
| less | Less Yoorrook Justice Commission executives5 | 6 | 4 |
| Total DPC executive numbers | 59 | 56 |
Notes
1 There are ten employees employed on a part-time basis, including five at a 0.8 FTE rate and five at a 0.9 FTE rate
2 There are 2 employees employed on a part-time basis at a 0.5 FTE and a 0.7 FTE rate, respectively.
3 Table includes 6 DPC executives supporting the Yoorrook Justice Commission.
4 Table has been provided by the VPSC.
5 Separations include executives who transferred to other departments during the financial year as a result of a machinery of government change.
6 Portfolio agency executives in 2024 includes DPC’s two administrative offices, the Office of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel and the Office of the Governor, as the Wage Inspectorate Victoria transferred to DTF as part of a machinery of government change on 1 February 2024. Portfolio agency executives in 2023 include the 2 administrative offices and the Wage Inspectorate Victoria.
7 Two reconciled totals are provided, one including DPC executives supporting the Yoorrook Justice Commission and one excluding these executives. These separate totals are provided so readers can distinguish between the DPC executive headcounts provided in the ‘Executive office data’ section of the annual report in the DPC Senior Executive Service numbers for 2024 and 2023 table above and the ‘Comparative workforce data’ section of the annual report where a separate table is provided for DPC and the Yoorrook Justice Commission.
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