Workforce profile
As at 30 June 2022, we had:
- 94,636 employees or 75,267.1 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
- 2.8% of the total workforce providing corporate services
- approximately 0.5% of the total FTE staff employed as senior officers, senior executive officers, miscellaneous workers or trainees
- a permanent retention rate of 93.4%.
No redundancy, early retirement or retrenchment packages were paid during the period.
Workforce profile data
| Total FTE for the Department of Education | 75,267.1 |
Target group data
| Woman | 74,322 | 78.5% |
| Man | 20,145 | 21.3% |
| Non-binary | 169 | 0.2% |
| Women | 74,322 | 78.5% |
| Aboriginal Peoples and Torres Strait Islander Peoples | 2,508 | 2.7% |
| People with disability | 4,905 | 5.2% |
| Culturally and Linguistically Diverse – Born overseas | 1,672 | 1.8% |
| Culturally and Linguistically Diverse – Speak a language at home other than English (including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages or Australian South Sea Islander languages) | 2,512 | 2.7% |
| Women in Leadership Roles
2 | 755 | 53.1% |
Notes:
- To ensure privacy, in tables where there are less than 5 respondents in a category, specific numbers should be replaced by <5.
- Women in Leadership Roles are considered those positions that are Senior Officer and equivalent and above.
Workforce by type of employment
| Permanent employee | 83.5% |
| Temporary employees | 12.5% |
| Casual and contract employees | 4.0% |
| Total | 100% |
Workforce by occupational group
| Teachers | 63.4% |
| Teacher Aides | 14.3% |
| Public Servants | 13.7% |
| Cleaners | 6.3% |
| Schools Officers | 1.7% |
| Other | 0.5% |
| Total | 100% |
Notes:
- Employee numbers are based on quarter 2, 2022 Minimum Obligatory Human Resource Information (MOHRI) point-in-time data. MOHRI FTE data for fortnight ending 19 June 2022.
- Percentage total 99.9% rounded up to 100%.