Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Treasury portfolio
Verified figures
- Contracts (all years): 7,342
- Contract value (all years): 3,079,711,672 AUD
- Contract value (2026): 110,800,188 AUD
- APS headcount: 3,791
- Budget 2026-27: 797,904 thousand AUD
- Highest total remuneration: 866,679 AUD
- Directory roles: 59
Figures use publishable matches only (alias, abn, exact, case, punct, trading_name, wide_exact). Retrieved 2026-09-01.
Coverage — named in the headline (40)
- 2026-08-13 — ABS: Gender pay gap reaches record low
- 2026-08-10 — Census reminder: ABS urges people to complete compulsory survey before midnight
- 2026-07-29 — ABS: Look out for August Census instructions in the post
- 2026-06-28 — Media and telco companies top AI adopters, ABS data shows
- 2026-01-28 — Census spurs ABS recruitment drive: Local field managers wanted
- 2025-08-20 — Stats right: ABS reports it’s more trustworthy than ever
- 2025-05-15 — ABS floats public data overhaul
- 2025-04-03 — ABS to hire 150 workers for census test
- 2025-02-19 — The honeymoon is over: ABS public sector wage growth falls
- 2024-12-08 — Leigh reveals new ABS national jobs data classifications
- 2024-11-27 — The ABS social media team’s Stat Girl Summer
- 2024-09-08 — ABS rules out intersex status from census: ‘Complexity’ will impact high-quality data
- 2024-08-15 — Duncan Young: the ABS heavy-hitter who left Canberra
- 2024-07-24 — ABS projects growth of Australia’s First Nations population, rise in major city dweller numbers
- 2024-06-27 — ABS called in to bolster ‘measuring what matters’ framework
- 2023-11-23 — ABS projects national population growth to 2071
- 2023-10-17 — Why posting memes helps the ABS do its job
- 2023-08-16 — ABS publishes ‘statement of regret’ over LGBTIQ+ exclusion from census
- 2023-08-13 — Breadth of work at ABS exciting this data grad
- 2023-08-10 — Movers & Shakers: Head of the ABS for nature revealed
- 2023-07-31 — ‘Serious missed opportunity’: ABS confirms internet access won’t be in 2026 census
- 2022-12-15 — ABS breaks downs Australia’s population growth by state and territory
- 2022-12-01 — Saltmarshes protect Australia’s coastline, says ABS
- 2022-09-06 — ABS to consult on religious classifications
- 2022-09-01 — Back to the future for ABS’ digital grand design
- 2022-08-24 — ABS reports 3.6 million Australians experience partner emotional abuse
- 2022-06-13 — ‘What gets measured gets managed’: Leigh underscores role of ABS in future policymaking
- 2022-03-30 — ABS welcomes four-year $26 million investment
- 2021-08-11 — ABS records more than 6 million census submissions
- 2021-08-02 — Twitter partners with ABS to support ‘healthy’ census conversation
- 2021-04-12 — ABS hiring 20,000 field officers to deliver Census
- 2020-11-11 — Cost of essential goods and services rising faster than price of non-essential items, ABS finds
- 2020-05-04 — How the Australian Bureau of Statistics has been using data to respond to COVID-19
- 2020-04-21 — David Gruen and the ABS’s overhaul of its jobs data-gathering will give us current information to act on
- 2020-01-12 — Nineties-era ABS website to be refreshed
- 2019-12-17 — What’s in MYEFO for the public service? A boost for the ABS amid continued cuts
- 2019-12-10 — ABS advises against LGBTI census questions despite calls for data
- 2019-12-01 — David Kalisch needed to transform ABS’s leadership, strategy and delivery. How the organisation learned to continuously improve and maintain focus in a maelstrom of misunderstandings
- 2019-11-28 — From one David to another: appointment of new ABS boss leaves a pointy-headed hole in PM&C
- 2019-09-11 — The ABS’s chief methodologist on the common pitfalls of using data and why fishing makes him better at work
Passing mentions (10 shown)
Mentioned in the text but not the headline, so often not about this agency.
- 2026-08-27 — New online betting law gambles on regulation
- 2026-08-25 — Defence oversight and wellbeing outcomes focus for new advisory group
- 2026-08-09 — Before we debate migration, we need to ask: Who will care for Australia?
- 2026-07-13 — From paper to pixels: The digital border vision finally lands
- 2026-06-30 — Screen time data flags concern for Australian children
- 2026-05-31 — Young Australians want more migrants, older voters want fewer
- 2026-05-24 — The worrying factors that drive tumbling fertility rates
- 2026-05-19 — Census 2026 info available online through myGov updates
- 2026-05-18 — Treasurer takes on difficult reform task: ‘We aren’t standing still’
- 2026-05-17 — Wealth, provision and the limits of adjustment: What the budget reveals about Australia’s policy model
Payments to organisations — as reported by the agency
| Category | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Non-consultancy contracts | 25 | $101,658,390 |
| Advertising and campaigns | 36 | $34,576,935 |
| Consultancy | 22 | $3,547,670 |
Largest recipients across all reported years
| Organisation | ABN | Reported total | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evolve FM (+1 other name(s) on this ABN) | 52605472580 | $28,600,151 | 2020-21, 2021-22, 2024-25 |
| Universal McCann | — | $28,359,259 | 2018-19, 2020-21, 2021-22 |
| Australia Post | 28864970579 | $20,888,618 | 2021-22 |
| PricewaterhouseCoopers (+1 other name(s) on this ABN) | 20607773295 | $20,649,316 | 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23 |
| Amazon Web Services (+1 other name(s) on this ABN) | 63605345891 | $8,419,095 | 2021-22, 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| Adecco Australia Pty Ltd | 91006253336 | $8,090,641 | 2020-21 |
| Print Media Group | 21004110070 | $7,821,492 | 2020-21 |
| Telstra Corporation Ltd | 33051775556 | $4,244,257 | 2020-21 |
| BMF Advertising Pty Ltd | 43533837149 | $3,307,662 | 2020-21, 2021-22 |
| Accenture Australia Pty Ltd | 49096776895 | $1,978,668 | 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24 |
| Oracle Corporation Australia Pty Limited | 80003074468 | $1,067,443 | 2021-22 |
| Ogilvy Australia Pty Ltd | 50005373508 | $772,868 | 2020-21, 2021-22 |
From the expenditure disclosures in each annual report — a separate source from the AusTender contract figures above, and not directly comparable with them.
Workforce profile — as at 2025-12-31
| Measure | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| % CALD | 23.1% | at this date |
| % Female | 50.4% | at this date |
| % Indigenous | 1.9% | at this date |
| % at the APS classification level | 74.2% | at this date |
| % non-ongoing | 12.2% | at this date |
| % part-time (ongoing employees) | 15.9% | at this date |
| % who have worked in only one agency (ongoing employees) | 76.5% | at this date |
| % with a bachelors degree or higher | 83.3% | at this date |
| % with a disability | 3.7% | at this date |
| Exit rate - from agency (ongoing employees) | 6.2% | Year ending December 2025 |
| Headcount | 3,791 | at this date |
| Mean Age (years) | 41.7 years | at this date |
| Median LOS in APS (years) | 6.8 years | at this date |
| Separation rate - from APS (ongoing employees) | 4.6% | at this date |
APSC APS Employment Data, counting this agency including any bodies beneath it. Headcount, not FTE — the APSED release does not publish FTE.
Year by year
| Measure | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| APS headcount | 3,540 | 3,055 | 2,871 | 2,889 | 3,571 | 3,563 | 2,832 | 2,739 | 2,892 | 3,343 | 3,336 | 3,163 | 3,318 | 3,656 | 3,791 | ||||||||
| SES | 102 | 96 | 98 | 64 | 86 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 25 | 25 | 22 | ||||||||||||
| Contracts | 7 | 37 | 125 | 315 | 578 | 580 | 667 | 744 | 475 | 210 | 332 | 456 | 337 | 409 | 352 | 366 | 264 | 256 | 209 | 217 | 220 | 160 | 26 |
| Contract value | $7,903,550 | $3,151,444 | $27,144,130 | $28,265,751 | $68,826,775 | $88,773,757 | $782,487,953 | $89,704,110 | $67,594,726 | $40,433,747 | $60,617,016 | $136,116,433 | $151,766,023 | $201,107,238 | $264,420,860 | $203,337,088 | $132,065,280 | $109,546,910 | $96,283,354 | $195,221,722 | $141,623,878 | $128,481,933 | $54,837,994 |
| Budget ($000) | 691,842 | 797,904 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| KMP disclosed | 8 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 12 | 10 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| Top total pay | $841,720 | $481,569 | $765,613 | $734,763 | $768,808 | $866,679 | $862,180 |
An empty cell means no publishable row for that year — unknown, not nil. Never read a blank as a fall to zero.
Sources — annual reports
Each link opens transparency.gov.au — the published source the figures were read from. The label names the table to look for.
° The portal does not publish a path for this report, so the link opens the agency's reports on transparency.gov.au rather than that year directly. Pick the year from there.
