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Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Annual Report 2019-20

Appendix 1: Staffing overview

Table 3: All ongoing employees 2019–20
	Male			Female
	Full time	Part time	Total male	Full time	Part time	Total female	Total
NSW	15	1	16	35	14	49	65
Qld	9	0	9	26	10	36	45
SA	2	2	4	9	3	12	16
Tas	9	0	9	6	2	8	17
Vic	26	1	27	56	13	69	96
WA	8	2	10	12	7	19	29
ACT	1,013	64	1,077	1,361	266	1,627	2,704
NT	2	0	2	5	2	7	9
Overseas	1,045	22	1,067	1,202	81	1,283	2,350
Americas	99	3	102	117	6	123	225
Asia	533	10	543	567	33	600	1,143
South Asia	141	1	142	88	2	90	232
Southeast Asia	305	9	314	374	19	393	707
North Asia	87	0	87	105	12	117	204
Europe	151	3	154	151	28	179	333
Middle East and Africa	124	2	126	116	1	117	243
Multilateral	29	1	30	46	4	50	80
New Zealand and the Pacific	109	3	112	205	9	214	326
Total	2,129	92	2,221	2,712	398	3,110	5,331

Table 4: All ongoing employees 2018–19
	Male			Female
	Full time	Part time	Total male	Full time	Part time	Total female	Total
NSW	15	1	16	39	11	50	66
Qld	13	0	13	29	9	38	51
SA	2	1	3	9	3	12	15
Tas	7	2	9	6	3	9	18
Vic	25	1	26	55	13	68	94
WA	7	1	8	10	13	23	31
ACT	987	69	1,056	1,238	292	1,530	2,586
NT	2	0	2	7	0	7	9
Overseas	1,066	12	1,078	1,279	61	1,340	2,418
Americas	103	0	103	130	4	134	237
Asia	543	4	547	606	19	625	1,172
South Asia	141	0	141	99	1	100	241
Southeast Asia	311	3	314	393	10	403	717
North Asia	91	1	92	114	8	122	214
Europe	149	2	151	161	23	184	335
Middle East and Africa	125	1	126	120	2	122	248
Multilateral	29	3	32	54	4	58	90
New Zealand and the Pacific	117	2	119	208	9	217	336
Total	2,124	87	2,211	2,672	405	3,077	5,288

Table 5: All non-ongoing employees 2019–20
	Male			Female
	Full time	Part time	Total male	Full time	Part time	Total female	Total
NSW			0			0	0
Qld			0			0	0
SA			0			0	0
Tas			0			0	0
Vic			0			0	0
WA			0			0	0
ACT	18	17	35	21	12	33	68
NT			0			0	0
Overseas	231	30	261	274	54	328	589
Americas	11	2	13	14	2	16	29
Asia	73	14	87	73	23	96	183
South Asia	29	1	30	9	1	10	40
Southeast Asia	38	6	44	54	18	72	116
North Asia	6	7	13	10	4	14	27
Europe	9	7	16	24	8	32	48
Middle East and Africa	46	1	47	53	7	60	107
Multilateral	6	2	8	8	2	10	18
New Zealand and the Pacific	86	4	90	102	12	114	204
Total	249	47	296	295	66	361	657

Table 6: All non-ongoing employees 2018–19
	Male			Female
	Full time	Part time	Total male	Full time	Part time	Total female	Total
NSW			0			0	0
Qld			0			0	0
SA			0			0	0
Tas			0			0	0
Vic			0	2		2	2
WA			0			0	0
ACT	20	8	28	29	13	42	70
NT			0			0	0
Overseas	264	56	320	300	98	398	718
Americas	16	3	19	20	5	25	44
Asia	81	29	110	88	46	134	244
South Asia	32	12	44	13	5	18	62
Southeast Asia	44	15	59	59	27	86	145
North Asia	5	2	7	16	14	30	37
Europe	12	10	22	23	16	39	61
Middle East and Africa	50	4	54	55	13	68	122
Multilateral	6	1	7	6	1	7	14
New Zealand and the Pacific	99	9	108	108	17	125	233
Total	284	64	348	331	111	442	790

Table 7: APS ongoing employees 2019–20
	Male			Female
	Full time	Part time	Total male	Full time	Part time	Total female	Total
Secretary			0	1		1	1
Dir Safeguards	1		1			0	1
SES Band 3	8		8	5		5	13
SES Band 2	27		27	27		27	54
SES Band 1	103	1	104	79	3	82	186
Medical Officer CI 5	1		1			0	1
SES Unattached	19		19	7		7	26
Medical Officer CI 4			0			0	0
Medical Officer CI 3			0			0	0
EL 2	252	8	260	276	27	303	563
EL 1	470	33	503	547	116	663	1,166
APS 6	237	13	250	362	58	420	670
APS 5	223	10	233	420	86	506	739
APS 4	25		25	31	1	32	57
APS 3	11	1	12	20	6	26	38
APS 2			0			0	0
APS 1			0			0	0
Graduates	46		46	49		49	95
Non-SES Unattached	63	5	68	95	24	119	187
Total	1,486	71	1,557	1,919	321	2,240	3,797

Table 8: APS ongoing employees 2018–19
	Male			Female
	Full time	Part time	Total male	Full time	Part time	Total female	Total
Secretary			0	1		1	1
Dir Safeguards	1		1			0	1
SES Band 3	9		9	5		5	14
SES Band 2	33		33	17		17	50
SES Band 1	110	1	111	75	5	80	191
Medical Officer CI 5			0	1		1	1
SES Unattached	13		13	10	1	11	24
Medical Officer CI 4			0			0	0
Medical Officer CI 3			0			0	0
EL 2	239	4	243	241	27	268	511
EL 1	465	42	507	515	129	644	1,151
APS 6	213	10	223	328	61	389	612
APS 5	226	13	239	440	93	533	772
APS 4	20		20	35		35	55
APS 3	14	1	15	25	7	32	47
APS 2			0			0	0
APS 1			0			0	0
Graduates	53		53	56	1	57	110
Non-SES Unattached	64	4	68	85	21	106	174
Total	1,460	75	1,535	1,834	345	2,179	3,714

Table 9: APS non-ongoing employees 2019–20
	Male			Female
	Full time	Part time	Total male	Full time	Part time	Total female	Total
Secretary			0			0	0
Dir Safeguards			0			0	0
SES Band 3	5		5	1		1	6
SES Band 2	3		3		1	1	4
SES Band 1	2		2	1		1	3
Medical Officer CI 5			0			0	0
SES Unattached			0			0	0
Medical Officer CI 4	5		5	2		2	7
Medical Officer CI 3			0		1	1	1
EL 2	3		3	2	1	3	6
EL 1	7	15	22	7	6	13	35
APS 6	2	1	3	4	1	5	8
APS 5	4	1	5	8	2	10	15
APS 4			0			0	0
APS 3			0			0	0
APS 2			0			0	0
APS 1			0			0	0
Graduates			0			0	0
Non-SES Unattached			0			0	0
Total	31	17	48	25	12	37	85

Table 10: APS non-ongoing employees 2018–19
	Male			Female
	Full time	Part time	Total male	Full time	Part time	Total female	Total
Secretary			0			0	0
Dir Safeguards			0			0	0
SES Band 3	4		4	1		1	5
SES Band 2	5		5	1		1	6
SES Band 1	3		3	1		1	4
Medical Officer CI 5			0			0	0
SES Unattached			0			0	0
Medical Officer CI 4	3		3	1		1	4
Medical Officer CI 3			0	1		1	1
EL 2	2		2	1	2	3	5
EL 1	8	5	13	4	5	9	22
APS 6	3	1	4	4		4	8
APS 5	3	2	5	22	5	27	32
APS 4			0		1	1	1
APS 3			0			0	0
APS 2			0			0	0
APS 1			0			0	0
Graduates			0			0	0
Non-SES Unattached			0			0	0
Total	31	8	39	36	13	49	88

Table 11: APS employees by full-time and part-time status 2019–20
	Ongoing			Non-ongoing
	Full time	Part time	Total Ongoing	Full time	Part time	Total Non-ongoing	Total
Secretary	1		1			0	1
Dir Safeguards	1		1			0	1
SES Band 3	13		13	6		6	19
SES Band 2	54		54	3	1	4	58
SES Band 1	182	4	186	3		3	189
Medical Officer CI 5	1		1			0	1
SES Unattached	26		26			0	26
Medical Officer CI 4			0	7		7	7
Medical Officer CI 3			0		1	1	1
EL 2	528	35	563	5	1	6	569
EL 1	1,017	149	1,166	14	21	35	1,201
APS 6	599	71	670	6	2	8	678
APS 5	643	96	739	12	3	15	754
APS 4	56	1	57			0	57
APS 3	31	7	38			0	38
APS 2			0			0	0
APS 1			0			0	0
Graduates	95		95			0	95
Non-SES Unattached	158	29	187			0	187
Total	3,405	392	3,797	56	29	85	3,882

Table 12: APS employees by full-time and part-time status 2018–19
	Ongoing			Non-ongoing
	Full time	Part time	Total Ongoing	Full time	Part time	Total Non-ongoing	Total
Secretary	1		1			0	1
Dir Safeguards	1		1			0	1
SES Band 3	14		14	5		5	19
SES Band 2	50		50	6		6	56
SES Band 1	185	6	191	4		4	195
Medical Officer CI 5	1		1			0	1
SES Unattached	23	1	24			0	24
Medical Officer CI 4			0	4		4	4
Medical Officer CI 3			0	1		1	1
EL 2	480	31	511	3	2	5	516
EL 1	980	171	1,151	12	10	22	1,173
APS 6	541	71	612	7	1	8	620
APS 5	666	106	772	25	7	32	804
APS 4	55		55		1	1	56
APS 3	39	8	47			0	47
APS 2			0			0	0
APS 1			0			0	0
Graduates	109	1	110			0	110
Non-SES Unattached	149	25	174			0	174
Total	3,294	420	3,714	67	21	88	3,802

Table 13: APS employment type by location 2019–20
	Ongoing	Non-ongoing	Total
NSW	65		65
Qld	45		45
SA	16		16
Tas	17		17
Vic	96		96
WA	29		29
ACT	2,704	68	2,772
NT	9		9
Overseas	816	17	833
Americas	69	3	72
Asia	368	7	375
South Asia	70	1	71
Southeast Asia	207	5	212
North Asia	91	1	92
Europe	96	1	97
Middle East and Africa	106		106
Multilateral	39	2	41
New Zealand and the Pacific	138	4	142
Total	3,797	85	3,882

Table 14: APS employment type by location 2018–19
	Ongoing	Non-ongoing	Total
NSW	66		66
Qld	51		51
SA	15		15
Tas	18		18
Vic	94	2	96
WA	31		31
ACT	2,586	70	2,656
NT	9		9
Overseas	844	16	860
Americas	72	4	76
Asia	374	5	379
South Asia	72		72
Southeast Asia	206	4	210
North Asia	96	1	97
Europe	105	1	106
Middle East and Africa	107		107
Multilateral	43	1	44
New Zealand and the Pacific	143	5	148
Total	3,714	88	3,802

Table 15: APS Indigenous employment
2019-20		2018-19
	Total		Total
Ongoing	118	Ongoing	104
Non-ongoing	2	Non-ongoing	1
Total	120	Total	105

	Total
SES Band 2	1		Total
SES Band 1	5	SES Band 1	6
Exec. Level 2	9	Exec. Level 2	5
Exec. Level 1	19	Exec. Level 1	22
APS Level 6	19	APS Level 6	12
APS Level 5	37	APS Level 5	26
APS Level 4	18	APS Level 4	16
APS Level 3	4	APS Level 3	8
Graduate	8	Graduate	10
Total	120	Total	105

Table 16: APS employment arrangements 2019–20
	SES	Non-SES	Total
Enterprise Agreement		3,558	3,558
Individual flexibility arrangements			0
Australian workplace agreements			0
Common Law contracts			0
Determinations under subsection 24(1) of the Public Service Act 1999	293	29	322
Total	293	3,587	3,880
The Secretary and the Director General of the Australian Safeguards and Non-proliferation Office have not been included in the above figures as they are statutory appointments

Table 17: APS employment salary ranges by classification level 2019–20
	Minimum Salary	Maximum Salary
SES 3	$252,123	$386,560
SES 2	$228,652	$291,480
SES 1	$177,294	$245,491
Med 5	$255,316	$255,316
Med 4	$209,222	$247,770
Med 4	$146,120	$203,373
EL 2	$127,067	$194,702
EL 1	$104,903	$165,986
APS 6	$83,900	$133,986
APS 5	$77,619	$128,748
APS 4	$70,390	$77,619
APS 3	$62,816	$77,259
APS 2
APS 1
Graduate	$67,124	$70,610
* Includes annualised shift penalties 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

Table 18: APS performance pay by classification level 2019–20
Total	2,270	4,828,481
	Number of employees receiving performance pay	Aggregated (sum total) of all payments made ($)	Average of all payments made ($)	Minimum payment made ($)	Maximum payment made ($)
SES 3	-	-	-	-	-
SES 2	-	-	-	-	-
SES 1	-	-	-	-	-
EL 2	378	1,086,943	2,875	988	3,520
EL 1	880	2,024,413	2,300	1,007	2,765
APS 6	461	851,941	1,848	522	2,141
APS 5	519	824,565	1,589	536	1,659
APS 4	-	-	-	-	-
APS 3	32	40,619	1,269	570	1,369
APS 2	-	-	-	-	-
APS 1	-	-	-	-	-
Other	-	-	-	-	-
Note: SES employees in DFAT do not receive performance pay. Non-SES staff who have worked 100 days at their APS level and are not on probation, are eligible to receive a pay point progression if they receive a rating of performing well or above. If they are at the top of their substantive APS level and meet the above criteria, they are eligible to receive a two per cent payment in lieu of a pay point progression

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