Appendix 1 – Workforce Profile

As at 30 June 2018, the Tasmanian State Service (TSS) had a total paid full-time equivalent (FTE) of 23,900.37 employees. This is an increase of 923.05 FTE from 22,977.32 as at 30 June 2017.⁷

Paid FTE by agency as at 30 June 2017 and 2018

The total number of employees under age 30 increased to 3,540 paid headcount (PHC) in 2017-18 (from 3,293 PHC in 2016-17).

Paid Headcount by age group and gender

Paid Headcount by agency and employment category

As at June 2018, the TSS had a total PHC of 30,323, which is an increase of 1,248 PHC from 29,075 in June 2017.

Gender diversity

Employment status by region as a percentage of the TSS workforce

*To protect the privacy of the low number of employees who identify as a gender other than male or female, data relating to these employees has been included only in totals for PHC and Paid FTE, and has not been extracted to identify their agency, age group, employment status or category.

Change in Paid Headcount by Region (June 2017 – June 2018)

Commencements and separations

Of the 1,206 permanent employees who left the TSS in 2017-18, 1,120 (92.87 per cent) resigned ⁸ or retired. The following chart shows the number of permanent employees who commenced or separated during the reporting period, by age group.

Officers

An officer is anyone appointed under Part 6 of the State Service Act 2000 (the Act) and includes Heads of Agencies, Prescribed Office Holders, Senior Executive Service (SES) and Equivalent Specialists. Overall, the total number of officers in the TSS decreased over the 2017-18 reporting period to 185 (from 188 in 2016-17).

SES officer numbers also decreased from 149 to 146, however the gender balance showed an increase in female officers from 55 in 2016-17 to 57 in 2017-18.

Data notes

Data included in this Workforce Profile reflects information collected through the Workforce Information Reporting System (WiRS). WiRS is a standardised national employee reporting system, validated against a set of business rules and translation tables to ensure consistent reporting at a whole-of-service level. WiRS data only includes those people employed under the State Service Act 2000, and within the agencies listed in Schedule 1 of that Act.

Definitions

Paid Headcount (PHC) is the number of employees and officers (excluding casuals) engaged and paid as at the reporting date, including employees on paid leave. It excludes employees who were not paid as at the reporting date, such as people on Leave Without Pay or on secondment out of the TSS.

Paid Full-time Equivalent (Paid FTE) is the full-time equivalent value of employees and officers (excluding casuals) who are engaged and paid as at the reporting date (e.g. one person working two part-time roles of 0.5 FTE each equals 1.00 FTE).

Officer/Part 6 is anyone appointed under Part 6 of the Act, and includes Heads of Agencies, Prescribed Office Holders, SES and Equivalent Specialists.

For more information

For more information on any of the information contained in the Profile, contact SSMO via email to ssmo@dpac.tas.gov.au.

^{7 Unless otherwise stated all totals and averages are based on paid permanent and fixed-term employee numbers and exclude casual employees, A full definition appears at the end of this chapter} .

^{8 Does not include employees who accepted a Workforce Renewal Incentive Program payment or Voluntary Redundancy package.}

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