Appendix 2:
Staffing overview

Table 6: Employees by classification, gender and location (excluding locally engaged employees overseas)

 

Female

Male

Total

Total

Classification*

Canberra

State Offices

Overseas

Canberra

State Offices

Overseas

30 June 2016

30 June 2015

APS Level 1

–

–

APS Level 2

1

1

4

6

9

APS Level 3

17

24

8

6

55

60

APS Level 4

36

37

7

33

21

4

138

115

APS Level 5

344

146

79

121

40

59

789

868

APS Level 6

299

19

99

160

8

65

650

514

Exec. Level 1

455

9

143

361

12

148

1,128

1,096

Exec. Level 2

171

4

85

188

4

90

542

465

Non SES Unattached**

106

67

173

263

SES Band 1

41

2

20

67

50

180

172

SES Band 2

8

3

23

21

55

61

SES Band 3

1

2

4

5

12

12

SES Specialist Band 1

2

2

1

SES Specialist Band 2

–

–

SES Unattached

9

13

22

26

Director of Safeguards ***

1

1

1

Secretary

1

1

1

Cadet

–

2

Graduate

35

1

37

1

74

83

Medical Officer Cl. 3

2

2

4

5

Medical Officer Cl. 4

1

1

2

4

4

Total

1,524

242

441

1,091

91

447

3,836

3,758

* Broadband classifications applicable to APS1–5, Cadets and Graduates.

** Includes staff on leave without pay, long service leave, seconded to other agencies and staff covered by the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984.

*** Director of Safeguards, a statutory officer responsible to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, occupies the position of Director General of the Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office.

Note: Staffing figures are based on headcount.

Table 7: Ongoing and non-ongoing employees, full-time and part-time (excluding locally engaged employees overseas)

Ongoing employee

Non-ongoing

Total

Total

Full Time

Part Time

Full Time

Part Time

30 June 2016

30 June 2015

3,309

402

110

15

3,836

3,758
Table 8: Employees by categories of employment

 

Female

Female %

Male

Male %

30 June 2016

30 June 2015

Ongoing employees

2,131

57.4

1,580

42.6

3,711

3,671

Non-ongoing employees

76

60.8

49

39.2

125

87

Overseas employees
(locally engaged employees)

1,327

54.7

1,101

45.3

2,428

2,344

Total

3,534

56.4

2,730

43.6

6,264

6,102

 

Table 9: SES by level and location

 

Total

Total

 

Canberra

State Offices

Overseas

30 June 2016

30 June 2015

SES Band 1

108

2

28

138

129

SES Band 2

31

0

4

35

38

SES Band 3

5

0

0

5

5

SES Specialist Band 1

2

0

0

2

1

SES Specialist Band 2

0

0

0

0

0

Director of Safeguards*

1

0

0

1

1

Head of Mission Band 1

0

0

42

42

43

Head of Mission Band 2

0

0

20

20

23

Head of Mission Band 3

0

0

7

7

7

Secretary

1

0

0

1

1

SES Unattached**

22

0

0

22

26

Total

170

2

101

273

274

* Director of Safeguards, a statutory officer responsible to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, occupies the position of Director General
of the Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office.

** Includes staff on leave without pay, long service leave, seconded to other agencies and staff covered by the Members of Parliament (Staff)
Act 1984.

Table 10: SES by gender

 

Total

Total

 

Female

Female %

Male

Male %

30 June 2016

30 June 2015

SES Band 1

52

37.7

86

62.3

138

129

SES Band 2

10

28.6

25

71.4

35

38

SES Band 3

1

20.0

4

80.0

5

5

SES Specialist Band 1

0

0.0

2

100

2

1

Director of Safeguards*

0

0.0

1

100

1

1

Head of Mission Band 1

11

26.2

31

73.8

42

43

Head of Mission Band 2

1

5.0

19

95.0

20

23

Head of Mission Band 3

2

28.6

5

71.4

7

7

Secretary

0

0.0

1

100

1

1

SES Unattached**

9

40.9

13

59.1

22

26

Total

86

31.5

187

68.5

273

274

* Director of Safeguards, a statutory officer responsible to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, occupies the position of Director General
of the Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office.

** Includes staff on leave without pay, long service leave, seconded to other agencies and staff covered by the Members of Parliament (Staff)
Act 1984.

Table 11: SES: New starters and separations during the year

 

Total

Commenced in the department*

11

Separated from the department

15

*  Includes temporary transfers, promotion of non-SES staff to the SES from within the department and non-APS HOM appointments.

Note: Figures include non-ongoing SES officers recruited for short-term projects who commenced and/or separated during the year.

Table 12: SES: Inter-agency mobility during the year

 

Band 1

Band 2

Band 3

Total

Commenced in the department *

7

2

2

11

Transferred from the department

11

2

2

15

* Includes temporary transfers and promotion of non-SES staff to the SES from within the department.

Note: Figures include non-ongoing SES officers recruited for short-term projects who commenced and/or separated during the year.

Table 13: Employees by location and gender as at 30 June 2016

APS staff

Locally engaged staff

Location

Female

Female %

Male

Male %

APS Total

Female

Female %

Male

Male %

LES Total

Canberra

Canberra total

1,524

58.3

1,091

41.7

2,615

–

Overseas posts—by regions

Asia

198

49.6

201

50.4

399

642

53.6

555

46.4

1,197

South Asia

29

36.3

51

63.8

80

83

36.6

144

63.4

227

Southeast Asia

123

58.0

89

42.0

212

389

53.4

340

46.6

729

North Asia

46

43.0

61

57.0

107

170

70.5

71

29.5

241

Americas

35

45.5

42

54.5

77

113

56.8

86

43.2

199

Europe

50

50.0

50

50.0

100

155

55.8

123

44.2

278

New Zealand and the South Pacific

86

55.8

68

44.2

154

245

59.8

165

40.2

410

Middle East and Africa

53

45.7

63

54.3

116

132

46.5

152

53.5

284

Multilateral*

19

45.2

23

54.8

42

40

66.7

20

33.3

60

Overseas posts total**

441

49.7

447

50.3

888

1,327

54.7

1,101

45.3

2,428

State and territory offices—including Australian Passports Office

New South Wales

63

77.8

18

22.2

81

–

Northern
Territory

6

54.5

5

45.5

11

–

Queensland

41

70.7

17

29.3

58

–

South Australia

16

76.2

5

23.8

21

–

Tasmania

11

61.1

7

38.9

18

–

Victoria

72

71.3

29

28.7

101

–

Western Australia

33

76.7

10

23.3

43

–

State & territory offices total

242

72.7

91

27.3

333

–

–

–

Total staff numbers

2,207

57.5

1,629

42.5

3,836

1,327

54.7

1,101

45.3

2,428

Total DFAT resourcing

6,264

* Posts in this category include Geneva UN, Geneva WTO, New York UN, Paris OECD and Vienna UN.

** Overseas staff includes officers on in-country language training, short-term assignments, in-transit from post and exchange officers.

 
 

Table 14: Employees covered by the Enterprise Agreement, determinations, individual flexibility agreements and remuneration supplementation agreements as at 30 June 2016 (excluding locally engaged employees overseas)

 

Enterprise Agreement

Determinations, individual flexibility
agreements and remuneration supplementation
agreements

APS Level

Salary

Min

Salary

Max

No. of

Staff

Salary

Min

Salary

Max

No. of

Staff

Total

APS Level 1–3, Broadband 1
(includes graduates and cadets)

52,995

71,708

137

n.a.

137

APS Level 4–5, Broadband 2

65,030

110,129

958

n.a.

958

APS6 *

79,061

126,465

671

n.a.

671

Exec. Level 1 *

98,454

156,669

1,191

n.a.

1,191

Exec. Level 2 **

118,943

161,200

528

134,334

164,318

47

575

Medical Officers

173,345

217,326

8

n.a.

8

Subtotal non-SES

3,493

47

3,540

SES ***

n.a.

181,006

310,632

263

263

Subtotal SES

263

263

Total

3,493

310

3,803

n.a. not applicable

* Includes annualised shift penalties for APS 6 level and Executive Level 1 staff.

** Includes Executive Level 2 staff deployed to Head of Mission SES positions overseas.

*** The Secretary and the Director General of the Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office have not been included in
the above figures as their remuneration is set by Prime Ministerial Determinations and the Remuneration Tribunal respectively.

Note: This table excludes 31 employees on temporary transfer to other organisations including the Office of the Governor-General,
Parliament House and other government agencies.

Table 15: Performance bonus payments by level, 2015–16

 

Range of payments ($)

 

Number in 2014–15

Number in 2015–16

Aggregated (Total) amount ($)

Average amount ($)

Minimum amount*

Maximum amount

APS Level 3

38

48

56,439

1,176

506

1,387

APS Level 5

487

476

697,522

1,465

372

1,608

APS Level 6

466

497

850,424

1,711

669

2,058

Executive Level 1

958

966

2,069,368

2,142

881

2,444

Executive Level 2**

428

423

1,135,884

2,685

537

3,286

Total

 2,377

2,410

4,809,637

1,996

 

 

* Low minimum payments are pro rata bonuses to staff who worked part time during the performance management cycle.

** Includes Medical Officers and eligible EL2 HOM/HOPs.

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