Background, Aims and Objectives
Section P.3 of the Annual Report Directions requires that directorates and public sector bodies produce a Workforce Profile report, specifically including information on ARIns special Employment Arrangements (SEAs) and Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs). Further, Section P.3 requires that the State of the Service Report include information at a Whole of Government level on Full Time Equivalent (FTE), headcount and key demographics.
The Workforce Profile information is intended to provide a holistic overview of the ACTPS and analysis of ACTPS workforce data. It includes data, analysis and commentary on employment and key demographics, including part time employment, employment growth, separation rates and diversity. Some tables and graphs are contained in the State of the Service Report while others are available online on the Open Government website.
Further, Workforce Profile data provides a historical summary of indicators based on the ACTPS structure, including high-level time series information. This allows for time series comparison and incorporates retrospective updates that help to remove time lag in human resources data processing.
Workforce statistics contained within the Workforce Profile data are based on information from the ACTPS payroll system and information provided by public sector bodies as at the final pay of June 2018 (‘June 2018’). Some indicators represent the 2017-18 financial year.
Reporting Notes
- Shared Services, a division of CMTEDD, administers all but one per cent of staff payroll across the ACTPS directorates and provides the data for the Workforce Profile. The Workforce Profile provides data for the directorates and public sector bodies that are administered through Shared Services.
- For the purposes of workforce reporting, the reporting structure has been amended from the 2016-17 report to provide a more accurate representation of the ACTPS. These changes are:
- Workforce profile information for the Independent Competition and Regulatory Commission, Long Service Leave Authority and ACT Teacher Quality Institute were previously included within the data of their portfolio directorate. As these agencies are ACT Public Sector Bodies, their workforce data is included in the ACT Public Sector Workforce Profile 2017-18.
- For the purpose of reporting in this section:
- ACTION is included in the reporting of TCCS; and
- while a public sector body, the Director of Public Prosecutions is included in the Workforce Profile data of JACS;
- Workforce indicators included in the Workforce Profile are based on paid staff and exclude employees on leave without pay, board members and contractors.
- The data reported in this section, and the ACT Public Sector Workforce Profile 2017-18 section (including the appendices) excludes contractors and staff of Territory Owned Corporations.
- These are point in time indicators and do not adjust for seasonal fluctuation, such as demand for casual teachers and back pay. Directorates and employee cohorts with small numbers are susceptible to fluctuation.
- Additional data can be found in Appendix 2, including a detailed breakdown of each directorate’s FTE and further information on ACTPS. Further data and tables can be found on the ACTPS website.
- Data has been rounded to one decimal place and as such, percentages may not add up to exactly 100 per cent on certain tables/graphs.