Workforce Profile

PAID FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT BY AGENCY  AS AT 30 JUNE 2019 AND 2020

As at 30 June 2020, the TSS had a total paid headcount of 31,998 employees.
This is an increase of 577 paid headcount (from 31,421 as at 30 June 2019).

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The average age of TSS employees as at June 2020 was 45.30 years. The average length of service for permanent employees is 13.14 years, which is down from 13.44 years in 2019.

Paid Headcount by Agency and Employment Category

The total number of employees under age 30 increased
to 3,994 paid headcount in 2019-20 (from 3,862 in 2018-19).

PAID HEADCOUNT BY AGE GROUP AND GENDER

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GENDER DIVERSITY

EMPLOYMENT BY REGION

CHANGE IN PAID HEADCOUNT BY REGION (2019-20)

COMMENCEMENTS AND SEPARATIONS

Of the 1,205 permanent employees who left the TSS in the 2019-20 period, 1,114 (92.45%) resigned²⁹ or retired. The following chart shows the percentage of permanent separations and commencements in each age group during the reporting period.

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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 Services (SES) and Equivalent Specialists. Overall, the total paid headcount of Officers in the TSS increased over the 2019-20 period to 211 (from 194 in 2018-19).

HEADS OF AGENCIES AND SES BY GENDER

SES BY GENDER AND AGE GROUP

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DATA NOTES

Data included in this Workforce Profile reflects information collected through the Workforce Information Reporting System (WiRS). WiRS is a standardised 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 (the Act), and within the agencies listed in Schedule 1³⁰ of that Act.

Data is uploaded to WiRS on a quarterly basis and manually reviewed as part of an ongoing quality assurance process. This process may include the correction of coding errors that affect historical paid headcount or full-time equivalent data. As a result of these corrections, there may be inconsistencies in historic data shown in this Report when compared to previously published State Service and Agency Annual Reports.

From June 2018, the State Service's Empower Human Resources Information System supports the recording of a third gender option (Other). To protect the privacy of the low number of employees who do not identify as male or female, data in this Report relating to these employees has been included only in totals and has not been extracted to identify their agency, age group, employment status, or category.

Definitions

Paid Headcount 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 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 full-time equivalent each equals 1.00 full-time equivalent).

An Officer is anyone appointed under Part 6 of the Act and includes Heads of Agencies, Prescribed Office Holders, Senior Executive Service, and Equivalent Specialists.

For More Information

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

This Report and previous Tasmanian State Service Annual Reports can be viewed on the SSMO website at http://www.dpac.tas.gov.au/divisions/ssmo/about_ssmo/annual_reports

^{29. Does not include employees who accepted a Workforce Renewal Incentive Program payment or Voluntary Redundancy package.}

^{30. https://www.legislation.tas.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/act-2000-085#JS1@EN}