3.3 Staffing Information

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This section provides information on Australian Public Service (APS) employees engaged by the Department in 2007–08 under the Public Service Act 1999. The following tables include information on staff numbers, locations, aggregated information on salary, performance pay and non-salary benefits provided to staff in 2007–08 under the Department’s Collective Agreement and Australian Workplace Agreements.

Table 3.3.1 Staff Numbers by Classification at 30 June 2008

Classification	Female Full time	Part time	Male Full time	Part time	Total
Secretary	1	-	-	-	1
Holder of Public Office	3	-	1	-	4
Senior Executive Band 3	2	1	4	-	7
Senior Executive Band 2	14	-	10	-	24
Senior Executive Band 1	56	-	42	-	98
Executive Level 2	290	35	264	16	605
Executive Level 1	727	189	397	35	1,348
APS6	827	223	330	19	1,399
APS5	435	127	151	12	725
APS4	265	158	73	16	512
APS3	112	21	35	9	177
APS2	50	40	13	10	113
APS1	15	86	23	23	147
Cadet	3	-	-	-	3
Graduate	83	3	18	-	104
Legal 2	10	7	8	1	26
Legal 1	11	3	6	-	20
Chief Medical Officer	-	-	1	-	1
Medical Officer Class 6	3	-	1	1	5
Medical Officer Class 5	3	-	9	2	14
Medical Officer Class 4	7	-	14	9	30
Medical Officer Class 3	6	-	3	1	10
Medical Officer Class 2	4	2	4	- >	10 >
Medical Officer Class 1	4	-	6	-	10
Professional 1	3	-	1	-	4
Senior Public Affairs	2	-	-	-	2
Public Affairs	12	4	11	2	29
Senior Principal Research Scientist	1	1	2	-	4
Principal Research Scientist	1	-	-	-	1
Total	2,950	900	1,427	156	5,433

This table includes the head count figures of departmental staff by classification as at 30 June 2008.

It includes inoperative staff and staff acting at a higher level, for any period, as at 30 June 2008 (ie these staff are listed against their higher classification).

The headcount figures include Mersey Community Hospital staff as the Commonwealth assumed ownership of the hospital from the Tasmanian Government on 23 November 2007. They also include Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care and National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission staff. While externally funded, staff in these organisations are employed via the Department of Health and Ageing's employment framework.

Table 3.3.2 Distribution of Staff at 30 June 2008

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	Female		Male
Unit	Ongoing	Non-ongoing	Ongoing	Non-ongoing	Total
Acute Care Division*	151	384	59	83	677
Ageing and Aged Care Division**	294	47	93	24	458
Audit and Fraud Control Branch	6	-	8	4	18
Business Group#	312	71	163	56	602
Executive	8	1	5	1	15
Medical Benefits Division	130	23	62	14	229
Mental Health and Workforce Division	182	12	52	9	255
Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health	141	20	42	11	214
Office of Health Protection	118	7	59	8	192
Pharmaceutical Benefits Division	157	11	67	4	239
Population Health Division	267	15	64	4	350
Portfolio Strategies Division	112	14	46	4	176
Primary and Ambulatory Care Division	215	15	73	5	308
Regulatory Policy and Governance Division	54	3	24	-	81
Office of the Gene Technology Regulator	31	-	22	1	54
National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme	30	8	20	4	62
Central Office Total	2,208	631	859	232	3,930
Australian Capital Territory Office	19	3	4	1	27
New South Wales Office	148	6	61	5	220
Northern Territory Office	49	10	7	1	67
Queensland Office	120	12	35	2	169
South Australia Office	69	9	34	2	114
Tasmania Office	31	3	10	-	44
Victoria Office	135	13	53	2	203
Western Australia Office	71	10	27	2	110
State Office Total	642	66	231	15	954
Core Department Total	2,850	697	1,090	247	4,884
Therapeutic Goods Administration trust	276	27	224	22	549
Departmental Total	3,126	724	1,314	269	5,433

* Includes Mersey Community Hospital staff.

* * Includes Office of Aged Care Quality and Compliance staff.

# Includes Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care and National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission staff.

This table includes the head count figures of all staff by unit as at 30 June 2008, including inoperative staff.

Non-ongoing figures include casual staff.

Table 3.3.3 Distribution of Staff by State and Territory at 30 June 2008

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State	Core Department	TGA* Trust	Total
Australian Capital Territory**	3,390	536	3,926
New South Wales#	309	2	311
Victoria	211	9	220
Queensland	180	-	180
South Australia	112	2	114
Western Australia	113	-	113
Tasmania##	498	-	498
Northern Territory	71	-	71
Total	4,884	549	5,433

* Therapeutic Goods Administration.

** Includes Australian Capital Territory Office, Central Office and National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission staff.

# Includes New South Wales State Office, National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme and Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care staff.

## Includes Tasmania State Office and Mersey Community Hospital staff.

This table includes the head count figures of all staff by State and Territory as at 30 June 2008, including inoperative and out posted staff.

Table 3.3.4 Senior Executive Service Staff and Equivalent Staff with Australian Workplace Agreements and Section 24(1) Determinations as at 30 June 2008

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	Number of Approved Australian Workplace Agreements		Number of Approved Section 24(1) Determinations
Level	Female	Male	Female	Male	Total
Senior Executive Band 3	1	3	2	1	7
Senior Executive Band 2	12	6	-	2	20
Senior Executive Band 1	40	27	2	2	71
Chief Medical Officer	-	1	-	-	1
Medical Officer Class 6	2	1	-	-	3
Medical Officer Class 5	3	10	-	-	13
Senior Principal Research Scientist	2	2	-	-	4
Total	60	50	4	5	119

This table includes Senior Executive Service and equivalent staff who had an approved Australian Workplace Agreement or Section 24(1) Determinations at their nominal classification and were employed by the Department at 30 June 2008.

Table 3.3.5 Non-Senior Executive Service Staff with Australian Workplace Agreements as at 30 June 2008

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Level	Number of Approved Australian Workplace Agreements
Non-Senior Executive Service staff	407

This table includes Non-SES staff who had an approved Australian Workplace Agreement at their nominal classification and were employed by the Department at 30 June 2008.

Table 3.3.6 APS Levels Salary Structure

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Classification	Salary Ranges as at 1 July 2007 $	August 2007 4.2% Increase $
Executive Level 2	99,008	108,368
	95,808	103,166
	87,841	99,832
	83,309	91,530
Executive Level 1	-	87,498
	80,648	84,035
	76,829	80,056
	73,626	76,718
APS 6	67,590	70,429
	66,110	68,887
	62,818	65,456
	59,912	62,428
APS 5	57,322	59,730
	55,787	58,130
	54,310	56,591
APS 4	52,759	54,975
	51,306	53,461
	49,933	52,030
APS 3	48,850	50,902
	46,634	48,593
	45,320	47,223
	44,072	45,923
APS 2	41,617	43,365
	40,460	42,159
	39,281	40,931
	38,137	39,739
APS 1	36,646	38,185
	34,941	36,409
	33,785	35,204
	32,631	34,002
At 20 years	29,694	30,941
At 19 years	26,431	27,541
At 18 years	22,841	23,801
Under 18 years	19,579	20,401

Table 3.3.7 Professional 1 Salary Structure

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Local Title	APS Classification	Salary Ranges as at 1 July 2007 $	August 2007 4.2% Increase $
Professional 1	APS 5	57,322	59,730
	APS 5	55,787	58,130
	APS 4	51,306	53,461
	APS 4 #	49,933	52,030
	APS 3 ##	46,634	48,593
	APS 3	45,320	47,223

# Salary on commencement for a 4 year degree (or higher).

## Salary on commencement for a 3 year degree.

Table 3.3.8 Medical Officer Salary Structure

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Local Title	Salary Ranges as at 1 July 2007 $	August 2007 4.2% Increase $
Medical Officer Class 4	124,923	130,170
	117,915	122,867
	113,493	118,260
Medical Officer Class 3	108,966	113,543
	104,073	108,444
Medical Officer Class 2	98,070	102,189
	93,077	96,986
Medical Officer Class 1	85,057	88,629
	77,053	80,289
	71,594	74,601
	66,089	68,865

Table 3.3.9 Legal Salary Structure

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Local Title	APS Classification	Salary Ranges as at 1 July 2007 $	August 2007 4.2% Increase $
Legal 2	Executive Level 2	104,731	112,161
		101,528	107,293
		95,889	103,825
Legal 1	Executive Level 1	89,141	94,936
		80,871	87,397
		73,626	80,056
	APS 6	65,852	68,618
		62,386	65,006
		58,920	62,428
	APS 5	55,454	57,783
	APS 4	51,988	54,171
	APS 3	48,522	50,560

Table 3.3.10 Public Affairs Salary Structure

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Local Title	APS Classification	Salary Ranges as at 1 July 2007 $	August 2007 4.2% Increase $
Senior Public Affairs 2	Executive Level 2	103,895	112,703
		100,689	108,324
Senior Public Affairs 1	Executive Level 2	95,808	103,166
Public Affairs 3	Executive Level 1	89,149	94,060
		83,309	89,497
		77,960	84,058
Public Affairs 2	APS 6	67,660	70,502
		62,818	65,456
		59,912	62,428
Public Affairs 1	APS 5	57,322	59,730
		55,787	58,130
	APS 4	52,759	54,975
	APS 4*	49,933	52,030

*This level is generally reserved for staff with less than two years experience.

Table 3.3.11 Research Scientist Salary Structure

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Local Title	APS Classification	Salary Ranges as at 1 July 2007 $	August 2007 4.2% Increase $
Senior Principal Research Scientist	Executive Level 2	131,051	137,627
		118,343	123,800
Principal Research Scientist	Executive Level 2	114,091	121,372
		109,950	117,609
		106,922	112,810
		104,086	109,836
		100,880	105,763
Senior Research Scientist	Executive Level 2	100,689	110,210
		94,399	103,166
		87,841	99,832
		83,309	91,530
Research Scientist	Executive Level 1	79,115	82,438
		72,194	76,718
	APS 6	62,935	65,578
		59,648	62,153
		58,025	60,462

Table 3.3.12 Graduate APS Salary Structure – Commencement Salary

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Classification	Salary Ranges as at 1 July 2007 $	August 2007 4.2% Increase $
Graduate APS	41,618	43,366

Table 3.3.13 Cadet Salary Structure

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Classification	Salary Ranges as at 1 July 2007 $	August 2007 4.2% Increase $
Cadet Full Time Study	18,248	19,014
	16,606	17,303
	14,781	15,402
	12,774	13,310
	10,949	11,409
Cadet Practical Training	36,502	38,035
	34,544	35,995
	33,636	35,049
	32,545	33,912
	29,616	30,860
	26,362	27,469
	22,781	23,738
	19,527	20,347

Table 3.3.14 Senior Executive Service and Senior Medical Officer Indicative Salary Bandwidths*

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Classification		Minimum $	Maximum $
Senior Executive Band 1		125,000	142,000
Senior Executive Band 2		150,000	180,000
Senior Executive Band 3		205,000	214,000
Medical Officer Class 5		154,000	160,000
Medical Officer Class 6		162,000	215,000

^*These are indicative as the Secretary may approve salary rates outside these bands.

Table 3.3.15 Non-Salary Benefits

Non-Senior Executive Service staff	Access to the Employee Assistance Program.
	Extended purchased leave.
	Maternity and adoption leave.
	Parental leave.
	Leave for personal compelling reasons and exceptional circumstances.
	Eligibility for performance based pay.
	Access to paid leave at half pay.
	Flextime (not all officers).
	Flexible working locations and home-based work including, where appropriate, access to lap-top computers, dial-in facilities, and mobile phones.
	Study assistance.
	Support for professional and personal development.
	Access to engage in private medical practice for Medical Officers.
	Access to remote locality conditions.
	Public Transport Loan Scheme.
	Access to negotiated discount registration/membership fees to join a fitness or health club.
	Family care rooms.
	Breastfeeding facilities.
	Provision of eyesight testing and reimbursement of prescribed eyewear costs specifically for use with screen based equipment.
	Influenza and hepatitis B vaccinations for staff who are required to come into regular contact with members of the community classified as at increased risk with regard to influenza.
	Recognition of travel time.
	Annual closedown and early stand down at Easter and Christmas Eve.
	Financial assistance to access financial advice for staff 54 years and older.
Senior Executive Service staff	All the above benefits except flextime.
	Car parking.
	Airport lounge membership.
	Home office equipment.
	Private use of motor vehicles or an allowance in lieu in certain circumstances.

Table 3.3.16 Senior Executive Service and Equivalent Staff, Performance-Based Payments, 1 July 2007 to 30 June 2008

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Level	Number	Aggregated Amount $	Average $	Minimum $	Maximum $
Senior Executive Bands 2 and 3	21	323,136	15,387	5,356	25,200
Senior Executive Band 1	84	919,255	10,944	2,457	22,050
Total	105	1,242,391

This table includes figures of Senior Executive Service and equivalent staff who received performance pay. Due to the small numbers of staff at the Senior Executive Band 3 level, details for Senior Executive Bands 2 and 3 have been combined. Payments have been aggregated to preserve employees' privacy.

The performance payments made in 2007–08 relate to assessments for the 2006–07 cycle.

Performance bonus payments are only available to staff with a current Australian Workplace Agreement which
provides eligibility.

Table 3.3.17 Non-Senior Executive Service Staff, Performance-Based Payments, 1 July 2007 to 30 June 2008

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Level	Number	Aggregated Amount $	Average $	Minimum $	Maximum $
Non-Senior Executive Service staff	371	2,105,225.39	5,674	495	13,089

This table includes figures of Non-Senior Executive Service staff who received performance pay. Payments have been aggregated to preserve employees' privacy.

The majority of performance payments made in 2007–08 relate to assessments for the 2006–07 cycle; a small number relate to assessments for the 2007–08 cycle.

Performance bonus payments are only available to staff with a current Australian Workplace Agreement which provides eligibility.