Australian Public Service Commission
Australian Public Service Commission
Prime Minister and Cabinet portfolio
Verified figures
- Contracts (all years): 968
- Contract value (all years): 170,483,428 AUD
- Contract value (2026): 12,049,437 AUD
- APS headcount: 444
- Budget 2026-27: 90,986 thousand AUD
- Highest total remuneration: 967,930 AUD
- Directory roles: 18
Figures use publishable matches only (alias, abn, exact, case, punct, trading_name, wide_exact). Retrieved 2026-09-01.
Coverage — named in the headline (40)
- 2026-08-17 — Public Sector Leadership Insights: Lessons from the APSC SES 360 Mandate
- 2026-08-09 — APSC confirms below-inflation payrise last year
- 2026-08-05 — APSC gives ground on bargaining secrecy, public service sentiment
- 2026-07-27 — Secret bargaining business: Row over APSC gag on negotiations escalates
- 2026-07-22 — ‘Treating us like children and sets the wrong tone’: Unions reject APSC bargaining behaviour demands
- 2026-07-16 — Anger over proposed APSC muzzle on unions
- 2026-06-11 — Movers & Shakers: APSC deputy commissioner departs
- 2026-06-04 — APSC quietly launches APS workplace conditions poll
- 2026-06-03 — APSC releases back-to-the-future 2026 bargaining policy
- 2026-05-27 — APSC’s new bargaining chief primed to come from ATO
- 2026-05-17 — Curtis’ appointment as APSC chief opens door to much-needed reforms
- 2026-04-19 — APSC battles to bury remainder of Pezzullo investigation
- 2026-01-08 — Court ruling gives rare insight into APSC complaints
- 2025-10-27 — Keep Briggs review under wraps, PM&C told APSC
- 2025-08-07 — SES salaries soar 7.4% in just one year: APSC
- 2025-07-13 — APSC capability review tells ATO to improve
- 2025-07-09 — New APSC integrity strategy flags changes to Public Service Act
- 2025-06-30 — Four objectives powering APSC integrity mission
- 2025-05-25 — ATO’s cyber chief sacking approved by APSC, documents reveal
- 2025-05-05 — Five things we learned from the APSC’s Senate briefing notes
- 2025-03-19 — APSC remains silent on Treasury meal costings controversy
- 2025-02-25 — Senators spar with APSC over impartiality requirements
- 2024-10-28 — APSC releases stewardship guidance
- 2024-10-21 — APSC promotes decentralisation for skills uplift
- 2024-09-19 — Movers & Shakers: APSC appoints profession heads, Griggs retires
- 2024-09-16 — Key insights from APSC’s robodebt investigation
- 2024-09-13 — Four key numbers from APSC’s robodebt investigation
- 2024-09-13 — ‘It’s not an insider game’: APSC confirms no public servants sacked over robodebt
- 2024-09-11 — Defence suicide inquiry signposts APSC’s role keeping department performance management in check
- 2024-08-14 — APSC amendment to make code of conduct powers retrospective
- 2024-06-24 — APSC didn’t have a written integrity plan in 2024
- 2024-05-05 — Services Australia reclaims its multicultural mojo, APSC CALD out over diversity
- 2024-04-29 — APSC announces 24% CALD target for SES ranks
- 2024-03-14 — APSC report shows 3 in 5 Aussies satisfied with democratic system but concerns linger
- 2023-12-17 — APSC accelerates wage deal
- 2023-11-20 — APSC channels Motörhead for ‘Louder than words’ public service integrity review
- 2023-11-16 — Private sector wages gallop whilst APSC and Gallagher slow trot
- 2023-11-09 — Federal cops declare industrial no-confidence in APSC
- 2023-11-05 — ‘Tammy’ booted after APSC admits to misleading marketing on workplace improvements
- 2023-11-02 — Tax union demands APSC correct ‘misleading’ flexible work claims
Passing mentions (10 shown)
Mentioned in the text but not the headline, so often not about this agency.
- 2026-08-31 — Trump accidentally increases trust in public service
- 2026-08-26 — Rare, practical guide for public servants partnering with academics
- 2026-08-18 — Agencies urged to set gifts disclosure threshold below $100
- 2026-08-13 — APS pay data is a goldmine but also a minefield
- 2026-08-09 — ATO staff most unhappy over wages
- 2026-08-06 — Study raises alarm about government’s ‘structural reliance on external consultants’
- 2026-08-06 — Building APS middle-rank policy capability beyond training
- 2026-07-28 — Former secretary speaks about APS antisemitism
- 2026-07-22 — Pocock calls for an audit of every KPMG contract
- 2026-07-19 — Wage rises the big-ticket issue in APS bargaining, survey reveals
Payments to organisations — as reported by the agency
| Category | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Non-consultancy contracts | 15 | $24,142 |
| Consultancy | 16 | $1,516 |
Largest recipients across all reported years
| Organisation | ABN | Reported total | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ventia Property Pty Ltd | 16618028676 | $5,572 | 2022-23, 2023-24 |
| PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting (+1 other name(s) on this ABN) | 20607773295 | $3,830 | 2022-23, 2023-24 |
| Clayton Utz | 35740217343 | $3,352 | 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| CAHOOT LEARNING (+1 other name(s) on this ABN) | 27131637468 | $2,816 | 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| Egon Zehnder International Pty Ltd | 67098985409 | $2,011 | 2022-23, 2023-24 |
| Old Parliament House | 30620774963 | $1,898 | 2022-23 |
| Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu | 74490121060 | $1,366 | 2024-25 |
| People Measures Pty Ltd | 28119083224 | $1,242 | 2022-23 |
| Ethos CRS Consulting Pty Ltd | 94116209235 | $1,053 | 2024-25 |
| Nous Group Pty Ltd | 66086210344 | $1,002 | 2024-25 |
| Stephen Thomas Sedgwick | 89574649541 | $495 | 2023-24 |
| BELLCHAMBERS BARRETT (+1 other name(s) on this ABN) | 14942509138 | $412 | 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 |
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 | 17.4% | at this date |
| % Female | 72.5% | at this date |
| % Indigenous | 2.9% | at this date |
| % at the APS classification level | 42.8% | at this date |
| % non-ongoing | 14.4% | at this date |
| % part-time (ongoing employees) | 13.9% | at this date |
| % who have worked in only one agency (ongoing employees) | 27.1% | at this date |
| % with a bachelors degree or higher | 79.9% | at this date |
| % with a disability | 9.2% | at this date |
| Exit rate - from agency (ongoing employees) | 16.6% | Year ending December 2025 |
| Headcount | 444 | at this date |
| Mean Age (years) | 43.3 years | at this date |
| Median LOS in APS (years) | 8.8 years | at this date |
| Separation rate - from APS (ongoing employees) | 6.5% | 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 | 2010-11 | 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 | 332 | 319 | 267 | 246 | 237 | 257 | 253 | 264 | 266 | 262 | 378 | 378 | 475 | 483 | 466 | |
| SES | 31 | 30 | 30 | 31 | 50 | 6 | 5 | |||||||||
| Contracts | 110 | 138 | 178 | 146 | 171 | 128 | 87 | 10 | ||||||||
| Contract value | $9,901,800 | $21,492,617 | $37,163,499 | $34,031,489 | $33,472,057 | $10,813,247 | $19,260,988 | $4,347,731 | ||||||||
| Budget ($000) | 86,075 | 90,986 | ||||||||||||||
| KMP disclosed | 7 | 8 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Top total pay | $696,793 | $803,444 | $793,970 | $779,899 | $936,278 | $967,930 |
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.
