Department of the Treasury
Department of the Treasury
Treasury portfolio
Verified figures
- Contracts (all years): 2,544
- Contract value (all years): 888,395,438 AUD
- Contract value (2026): 40,748,697 AUD
- APS headcount: 2,218
- Budget 2026-27: 235,454,611 thousand AUD
- Highest total remuneration: 974,110 AUD
- Directory roles: 123
Figures use publishable matches only (alias, abn, exact, case, punct, trading_name, wide_exact). Retrieved 2026-09-01.
Coverage — named in the headline (40)
- 2026-08-25 — Advice for Victorian Treasury on government spending
- 2026-08-02 — Treasury flags $780 million compliance cost reduction
- 2026-07-05 — Treasury paper suggests ASIC beef up audit surveillance
- 2026-05-04 — NSW downgrades impact of Treasury cyber hit
- 2026-04-23 — Treasury and ASIC seeking views
- 2026-03-12 — Movers & Shakers: Treasury counts on executive refresh
- 2026-03-10 — ANAO confirms Treasury’s HAFF monitoring and reporting under scrutiny
- 2026-02-23 — Treasury workforce now 54% women, SES gender split not far behind
- 2025-12-03 — Treasury faces a hunt for consumer feedback
- 2025-12-02 — Jenny Wilkinson: Department of Treasury secretary
- 2025-11-27 — Treasury mandarin lands gig leading DAFF
- 2025-08-27 — Why Treasury’s benchmarks risk misleading the tax debate
- 2025-07-29 — Senate honours former Treasury boss John Stone
- 2025-07-14 — Is Treasury’s accidental overshare a case for more transparency?
- 2025-06-15 — Wilkinson’s Treasury faces trust mandate, not economic grandstanding, in new era of public sector reform
- 2025-06-10 — Wilkinson to Treasury cements Finance as reform engine, redefines APS leadership lineage
- 2025-05-27 — ANAO finds Treasury not quite Measuring What Matters
- 2025-05-13 — Follow the money: Treasury exerts its MOG control playbook
- 2025-05-01 — Big gap between Treasury and PBO over Coalition’s small business expenses plan
- 2025-03-31 — Work ahead for Treasury, ACCC with Labor’s supermarket price-gouging election pitch
- 2025-03-19 — APSC remains silent on Treasury meal costings controversy
- 2025-03-16 — ‘Apologies’: Treasury tells Chalmers press release too political
- 2025-03-10 — Treasury not responsible for how treasurer uses its homework
- 2025-03-06 — Accounting bodies slam Treasury’s secrecy proposal
- 2025-02-26 — Treasury’s frantic two days: Sorting out the mess behind the meals deductions costings
- 2025-02-11 — Treasury trial of Microsoft Copilot comes a cropper
- 2025-02-04 — Criticism of Treasury head for lunch costings ‘rubbish’
- 2024-11-18 — Dr Steven Kennedy: Treasury
- 2024-10-21 — Treasury beefs up integrity and ‘active bystander’ training
- 2024-08-19 — Independent review warns Tasmania’s economy in trouble, lashes state Treasury for forgoing 10-year projections
- 2024-08-07 — Minns’ NSW return to office edict defied by Treasury
- 2024-07-10 — Treasury, ATO investigate PwC Australia’s FIRB track record
- 2024-06-07 — Kennedy gets five more years at Treasury
- 2024-05-26 — Treasury’s admission on no consultation should cause alarm
- 2024-05-06 — Treasury review to check if credit regulations are having a lend
- 2024-03-14 — Kennedy gets five more years in Treasury
- 2024-02-12 — Treasury in consultation to develop robust multinational company tax regime
- 2023-11-29 — Hopeful signs: Treasury’s policy shift to properly value contribution of thriving arts and culture
- 2023-11-05 — Steven Kennedy: Treasury
- 2023-09-08 — Treasury excises screen-scraping fintechs from the bottom of its shoe
Passing mentions (10 shown)
Mentioned in the text but not the headline, so often not about this agency.
- 2026-08-30 — Victories over dud policy? There’s been a few. Consumer Action just turned 20
- 2026-08-27 — New online betting law gambles on regulation
- 2026-08-27 — Abbie Galvin parachutes into Powerhouse Parramatta leadership
- 2026-08-27 — Victorian Transport and Planning secretary suddenly departs
- 2026-08-26 — Peak accounting body wants ASIC to register firms as auditors
- 2026-08-21 — KPMG blames auditing rule change for reassessment of whistleblower contract
- 2026-08-20 — Super’s $2 problem: The asset class the performance test can’t price
- 2026-08-20 — Movers & Shakers: Victoria reveals royal commissioner
- 2026-08-20 — Bust up the Big Four to end conflicts of interest, think tank says
- 2026-08-19 — Regulators retool for superannuation cleanup
Names over time
What each source called this agency, and in which years. Taken from the sources themselves, not from a register of establishment dates — those are not published.
| Reported as | Source | Years | Rows |
|---|---|---|---|
| Treasury ⚠️ | APSC APS Employment Data | 2010-11 to 2025-26 | 3,278 |
| Treasury ⚠️ | APSC agency metrics | 2010-11 to 2025-26 | 316 |
| Department of the Treasury | Annual report KMP disclosure | 2018-19 to 2024-25 | 84 |
| Department of the Treasury | Annual report governance tables | 2018-19 to 2024-25 | 58 |
| Department of the Treasury | AusTender (names as at today, not as at the contract) | 2019-20 to 2026-27 | 2,544 |
| Department of the Treasury | Annual report expenditure | 2020-21 to 2024-25 | 40 |
| Treasury ⚠️ | Annual report KMP disclosure | 2023-24 | 7 |
| Treasury ⚠️ | Annual report governance tables | 2023-24 | 4 |
| Treasury ⚠️ | Annual report expenditure | 2023-24 | 10 |
| Department of the Treasury | Portfolio Budget Statements | 2024-25 to 2029-30 | 185 |
⚠️ This agency has not always carried its current name. Figures in the earlier years were reported as Treasury (2010-11 to 2025-26). They are shown here because the series is continuous, not because the agency is.
Payments to organisations — as reported by the agency
| Category | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Non-consultancy contracts | 36 | $96,359,542 |
| Consultancy | 14 | $11,167 |
Largest recipients across all reported years
| Organisation | ABN | Reported total | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Universal McCann (+1 other name(s) on this ABN) | 19002966001 | $43,035,186 | 2020-21, 2021-22, 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| Ventia Property Pty Ltd | 16618028676 | $17,331,055 | 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| A23 Pty Ltd | 81612329781 | $9,672,312 | 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu | 74490121060 | $6,281,429 | 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23 |
| Sparke Helmore | 78848387938 | $5,342,055 | 2020-21 |
| Projex Building Group Pty Ltd | 77109570863 | $5,281,648 | 2020-21 |
| Hays Specialist Recruitment Australia | 47001407281 | $3,292,332 | 2021-22 |
| Partners in Performance International Pty Ltd | 48095941263 | $1,106,521 | 2020-21 |
| PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting Pty Ltd (+1 other name(s) on this ABN) | 20607773295 | $1,081,765 | 2020-21, 2021-22 |
| The Boston Consulting Group (+1 other name(s) on this ABN) | 70007347131 | $1,079,104 | 2021-22, 2023-24 |
| Finity Consulting Pty Ltd | 89111470270 | $671,809 | 2021-22, 2024-25 |
| MXA Consulting Pty Ltd | 16233295918 | $618,750 | 2020-21 |
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 | 26.4% | at this date |
| % Female | 54.1% | at this date |
| % Indigenous | 1.2% | at this date |
| % at the APS classification level | 48.7% | at this date |
| % non-ongoing | 3.2% | at this date |
| % part-time (ongoing employees) | 10.0% | at this date |
| % who have worked in only one agency (ongoing employees) | 44.2% | at this date |
| % with a bachelors degree or higher | 80.9% | at this date |
| % with a disability | 5.0% | at this date |
| Exit rate - from agency (ongoing employees) | 15.1% | Year ending December 2025 |
| Headcount | 2,218 | at this date |
| Mean Age (years) | 38.7 years | at this date |
| Median LOS in APS (years) | 6.9 years | at this date |
| Separation rate - from APS (ongoing employees) | 8.3% | 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.
Bodies beneath this agency — as at 2025-12-31
Australian Bureau of Statistics · Australian Competition and Consumer Commission · Australian Financial Security Authority · Australian Office Of Financial Management · Australian Taxation Office · Commonwealth Grants Commission · Inspector-General of Taxation · Productivity Commission · Royal Australian Mint
From the APSC sub-agency breakdown. A body listed here is counted inside the workforce profile above, so do not add the two.
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 | 1,397 | 1,333 | 1,319 | 1,187 | 1,266 | 1,306 | 1,319 | 1,318 | 1,453 | 1,678 | 1,927 | 1,963 | 2,145 | 2,170 | 2,220 | |
| SES | 129 | 118 | 120 | 113 | 115 | 64 | 61 | 66 | 66 | 60 | 60 | 55 | 54 | |||
| Contracts | 443 | 471 | 487 | 324 | 305 | 252 | 236 | 26 | ||||||||
| Contract value | $123,100,956 | $157,384,209 | $196,638,337 | $117,247,359 | $109,569,994 | $110,383,503 | $54,664,853 | $19,406,227 | ||||||||
| Budget ($000) | 217,065,920 | 235,454,611 | ||||||||||||||
| KMP disclosed | 12 | 12 | 6 | 22 | 14 | 13 | ||||||||||
| Top total pay | $879,978 | $768,513 | $922,022 | $958,773 | $959,257 | $974,110 |
An empty cell means no publishable row for that year — unknown, not nil. Never read a blank as a fall to zero. ⚠️ This agency has not always carried its current name. Figures in the earlier years were reported as Treasury (2010-11 to 2025-26). They are shown here because the series is continuous, not because the agency is.
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.
| Year | Report | Tables |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | Annual report (no portal path on record) | — |
| 2023-24 | Annual report | Audit committee nce · Accountable authority nce · Remuneration senior executives nce · Remuneration high paid staff nce · Remuneration for key management personnel nc |
| 2022-23 | Annual report | Audit committee nce · Accountable authority nce · Remuneration senior executives nce · Remuneration high paid staff nce · Remuneration for key management personnel nc |
| 2021-22 | Annual report (no portal path on record) | — |
| 2020-21 | Annual report | Table 1: Audit Committee members – qualifica · Board, council or committee · Table 2: Audit Committee members – qualifica · Executives by remuneration band · Executives by remuneration band · Named KMP remuneration · Table 17: Australian Public Service Act Empl · Table 18: Non-SES remuneration |
| 2018-19 | Annual report | Board, council or committee · Executives by remuneration band · Executives by remuneration band · Named KMP remuneration |