At 30 June 2020, there were 543 people, including contract (labour hire) staff, who worked at the AIHW compared with 534 at 30 June 2019. Contract staff numbers increased to meet the needs of externally funded projects and comply with the cap on the number of APS staff we can employ.

Table 5.1 shows staff engaged under the Public Service Act 1999 (APS staff) and contract (labour hire) staff. Of our 343 active APS staff at 30 June 2020:

• 339 (99%) were ongoing employees, compared with 336 in June 2019
• 4 were non-ongoing employees, compared with 5 in June 2019
• 90 (26%) worked part-time, compared with 84 in June 2019
• 232 (68%) identified as female, compared with 229 (67%) in June 2019.

Most of our staff are located in our Canberra offices. The location and gender of our APS staff is shown in Figure 5.2 and Table 5.2. The AIHW did not have any staff who do not identify exclusively as male or female.

Figure 5 .2: Gender identification of active staff, 2016–2020

Classification level

Of our active APS staff at 30 June 2020, 38% (129 staff) were classified and employed as Executive Level 1 (EL 1) officers and 26% (88 staff) were employed as APS 6 officers (see Table 5.3). One additional SES Band 1 position was created.

As at 30 June 2020:

• 394 (78%) of our active staff, inclusive of
• contractors, performed statistical work
  • 281 (82%) of our active APS staff
  • 113 (69%) of our contract staff
• 113 (22%) were employed in corporate support functions, including ICT, finance, governance, publications, media and communications
  • 62 (18%) of our active APS staff
  • 51 (31%) of our contract staff.