Safe Work Australia
Safe Work Australia
Employment and Workplace Relations portfolio
Verified figures
- Contracts (all years): 295
- Contract value (all years): 36,394,575 AUD
- Contract value (2026): 9,641,350 AUD
- APS headcount: 123
- Budget 2026-27: 27,347 thousand AUD
- Highest total remuneration: 615,539 AUD
- Directory roles: 7
Figures use publishable matches only (alias, abn, exact, case, punct, trading_name, wide_exact). Retrieved 2026-09-01.
Coverage — named in the headline (3)
- 2023-03-21 — Beta version of Safe Work Australia’s data website goes live
- 2023-02-28 — BETA, Safe Work Australia unite to help SME staff return to work post lock-down
- 2015-11-04 — Safe Work Australia finally locks in Michelle Baxter as boss
Passing mentions (10 shown)
Mentioned in the text but not the headline, so often not about this agency.
- 2026-06-15 — Exemptions the biggest feature of Canberra’s new business KPMG ban
- 2026-01-29 — Movers & Shakers: Two commissioners in, two out
- 2026-01-15 — Movers & Shakers: New royal commissioner, WA electoral chief
- 2025-12-15 — Top of their game: Senior public service appointments of 2025
- 2025-11-06 — Movers & Shakers: WA and ACT name integrity chiefs
- 2025-11-03 — Former WorkSafe Victoria head to lead Comcare
- 2025-09-04 — Seats optional in new ATO office fit out
- 2025-07-24 — Movers & Shakers: Olympic appointments to games authorities
- 2025-03-27 — Why Australia needs a human rights commissioner for small business
- 2025-03-11 — Agencies reminded of psychosocial hazards of sexual harassment
Payments to organisations — as reported by the agency
| Category | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Non-consultancy contracts | 14 | $6,007 |
| Consultancy | 13 | $2,066 |
Largest recipients across all reported years
| Organisation | ABN | Reported total | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jones Lang LaSalle (ACT) Pty Ltd | 69008585260 | $2,658 | 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| Australian Institute Health Welfare (+1 other name(s) on this ABN) | 16515245497 | $2,060 | 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| Strategic Reform Pty Ltd (+1 other name(s) on this ABN) | 34146766707 | $592 | 2022-23, 2023-24 |
| Deloitte Touche Tomatsu | 74490121060 | $404 | 2022-23, 2023-24 |
| Annex Digital Pty Ltd (+1 other name(s) on this ABN) | 44619502117 | $378 | 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| Ernst & Young | 75288172749 | $276 | 2022-23 |
| Nous Group Pty Ltd | 66086210344 | $275 | 2024-25 |
| Wallis Consulting Group Pty Ltd | 76105146174 | $180 | 2024-25 |
| University of Wollongong | 61060567686 | $176 | 2024-25 |
| Whereto Research Based Consulting | 65605178603 | $156 | 2022-23, 2023-24 |
| ORIMA RESEARCH PTY LTD | 77076347914 | $152 | 2023-24 |
| Universal McCann Mediabrands Australia Pty Ltd | 19002966001 | $130 | 2023-24 |
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 | 12.8% | at this date |
| % Female | 69.1% | at this date |
| % Indigenous | 2.4% | at this date |
| % at the APS classification level | 43.9% | at this date |
| % non-ongoing | 5.7% | at this date |
| % part-time (ongoing employees) | 18.1% | at this date |
| % who have worked in only one agency (ongoing employees) | 40.5% | at this date |
| % with a bachelors degree or higher | 85.1% | at this date |
| % with a disability | 7.3% | at this date |
| Exit rate - from agency (ongoing employees) | 18.3% | Year ending December 2025 |
| Headcount | 123 | at this date |
| Mean Age (years) | 38.4 years | at this date |
| Median LOS in APS (years) | 7.1 years | at this date |
| Separation rate - from APS (ongoing employees) | 5.5% | 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 | 121 | 108 | 106 | 112 | 106 | 106 | 109 | 108 | 104 | 96 | 96 | 108 | 108 | 119 | 123 | |
| Contracts | 37 | 27 | 36 | 37 | 36 | 55 | 47 | 20 | ||||||||
| Contract value | $3,904,234 | $1,921,322 | $5,933,231 | $3,880,572 | $2,024,911 | $4,797,427 | $5,409,187 | $8,523,690 | ||||||||
| Budget ($000) | 25,493 | 27,347 | ||||||||||||||
| KMP disclosed | 12 | 8 | 14 | 7 | 12 | 14 | 3 | |||||||||
| Top total pay | $443,205 | $447,356 | $441,122 | $454,326 | $474,637 | $615,539 | $467,839 |
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.
