Appendix 2: Staffing overview

Table 17: Employees by classification, gender and location (excluding locally engaged employees overseas)
  Female Male Total Staff
Classification*  Canberra State Offices Overseas Canberra State Offices Overseas 30 June 2014 30 June 2013**
Total 1,641 214 400 1,143 88 464 3,950 2,506
APS Level 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
APS Level 2 5 4 0 5 1 0 15 0
APS Level 3 15 28 0 9 8 0 60 70
APS Level 4 38 30 4 33 8 11 124 116
APS Level 5 342 136 80 146 36 62 802 581
APS Level 6 279 7 64 151 10 45 556 259
Exec. Level 1 460 5 150 389 19 159 1,182 691
Exec. Level 2 153 3 71 185 5 96 513 324
Non SES Unattached*** 233 0 1 71 0 1 306 150
SES Band 1 31 1 23 58 1 55 169 134
SES Band 2 6 0 4 22 0 22 54 41
SES Band 3 2 0 1 3 0 8 14 13
SES (Spec.) Band 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 3
SES (Spec.) Band 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 2
SES Unattached*** 9 0 0 13 0 0 22 20
Director of Safeguards**** 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1
Secretary 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1
Cadet 3 0 0 4 0 0 7 6
Graduate APS 65 0 0 47 0 0 112 87
Medical Officer CL 3 0 0 1 0 0 3 4 4
Medical Officer CL 4 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 3

* Broadband classifications applicable to APS1–6, Executive Levels 1–2, Cadets and Graduates are identified in Table 25.

** Excludes staff absorbed by DFAT following the Administrative Arrangement Orders of 18 September and 3 October 2013.

*** Includes staff on leave without pay, long service leave, seconded to other agencies and staff covered by the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984.

**** Director of Safeguards, a statutory officer responsible to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, occupies the position of Director General of ASNO.

Note: Staffing figures are based on headcount.

Table 18: Ongoing and non-ongoing employees full-time and part-time (excluding locally engaged employees overseas)
Ongoing employees Non-ongoing employees Total Total
Full-time Part-time Full-time Part-time 30 June 2014 30 June 2013
3,534 313 89 14 3,950 2,506
Table 19: Employees by categories of employment
      Total Total
Category Female   Male 30 June 2014 30 June 2013
Total 3,590 2,811 6,401 4,280
Ongoing employees 2,197 1,650 3,847 2,397
Non-ongoing employees 58 45 103 109
Overseas employees
(locally engaged employees)
1,335 1,116 2,451 1,774
Table 20: SES by level and location
        Total Total
Category  Canberra   State Offices  Overseas 30 June 2014 30 June 2013
Total 150 2 114 266 215
SES Band 1 89 2 38 129 94
SES Band 2 28 0 4 32 20
SES Band 3 5 0 0 5 4
SES Specialist Band 1 3 0 0 3 3
SES Specialist Band 2 1 0 1 2 2
Director of Safeguards* 1 0 0 1 1
Head of Mission Band 1 n.a. n.a. 40 40 40
Head of Mission Band 2 n.a. n.a. 22 22 21
Head of Mission Band 3 n.a. n.a. 9 9 9
Secretary 1 0 n.a. 1 1
SES Unattached** 22 0 0 22 20

n.a. not applicable

* Director of Safeguards, a statutory officer responsible to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, occupies the position of Director General of ASNO.

** Includes staff on leave without pay, long service leave, seconded to other agencies and staff covered by the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984.

Table 21: SES by gender
      Total Total
Category  Female Male 30 June 2014 30 June 2013
Total 77 189 266 215
SES Band 1 39 90 129 94
SES Band 2 8 24 32 20
SES Band 3 2 3 5 4
SES Specialist Band 1 0 3 3 3
SES Specialist Band 2 0 2 2 2
Director of Safeguards* 0 1 1 1
Head of Mission Band 1 16 24 40 40
Head of Mission Band 2 2 20 22 21
Head of Mission Band 3 1 8 9 9
Secretary 0 1 1 1
SES Unattached** 9 13 22 20

* Director of Safeguards, a statutory officer responsible to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, occupies the position of Director General of ASNO.

** Includes staff on leave without pay, long service leave, seconded to other agencies and staff covered by the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984.

Table 22: SES: Gains and losses during the year
  Total
Commenced in the department* 64
Separated from the department 14

* Includes machinery of government transfers and promotion of non-SES staff to the SES from within the department.

Note: Figures include non-ongoing SES officers recruited for short term projects who commenced and/or separated during the year.

Table 23: SES: Interagency mobility during the year
  Band 1 Band 2 Band 3 Sec Total
To the department 49 13 2 0 64
From the department 7 5 2 0 14
Table 24: Employees by location and gender as at 30 June 2014
  APS Staff Locally Engaged Staff
Location  Female Male APS Total Female Male LES total
Total staff numbers 2,255 1,695 3,950 1,335 1,116 2,451
Total DFAT resourcing   6,401
Canberra
Canberra 1,641 1,143 2,784 0 0 0
Overseas post – by regions
Europe 45 50 95 160 129 289
Asia 182 202 384 630 556 1,186
South Asia 39 46 85 79 142 221
South East Asia 112 102 214 403 333 736
North Asia 31 54 85 148 81 229
Americas 28 45 73 107 88 195
New Zealand and the South Pacific 78 78 156 245 169 414
Middle East and Africa 47 60 107 152 150 302
Multilateral* 20 29 49 41 24 65
Overseas posts total** 400 464 864 1,335 1,116 2,451
Staff in state and territory offices – including APO
Queensland 40 18 58      
Victoria 62 26 88      
Western Australia 31 10 41      
New South Wales 59 22 81      
South Australia 13 5 18      
Tasmania 4 5 9      
Northern Territory 5 2 7      
State & territory total 214 88 302      

* Posts in this category are Geneva UN, Geneva WTO, New York UN, Paris OECD and Vienna.

** Overseas posts total includes officers on in-country language training, short-term assignments, in-transit from post and exchange officers.

Table 25: Employees covered by the Enterprise Agreement, determinations, individual flexibility agreements and remuneration supplementation agreements as at 30 June 2014 (excluding locally engaged employees overseas)
  Enterprise Agreement Determinations, individual flexibility agreements and remuneration supplementation agreements Total
APS Level  Salary Min Salary Max No. of staff Salary Min Salary Max No. of staff  
Total     3,620     310 3,930
APS Level 1-3, Broadband 1 (includes graduates and cadets) 43,368 69,974 167   n.a. 0 167
APS Level 4-5, Broadband 2 63,755 106,869 1,009   n.a. 0 1,009
APS Level 6 77,511 123,985 615   n.a. 0 615
Exec. Level 1* 96,524 155,758 1,301   n.a. 0 1,301
Exec. Level 2** 116,611 139,602 528 158,040 216,092*** 39 567
Medical Officers   n.a. - 175,170 198,654 7 7
Subtotal non-SES     3,620     46 3,666
SES****   n.a. 0 131,751 580,194 264 264
Subtotal SES     0     264 264

n.a. not applicable

* Includes shift penalties for Executive Level 1 staff.

** Includes Executive Level 2 staff deployed to Head of Mission SES positions overseas

*** With the exception of one staff member with a maximum salary of $216 092, all staff at the EL2 level on determinations, individual flexibility agreements or remuneration supplementation agreements had a maximum salary of $172 669.

**** The Secretary and the Director General of ASNO have not been included in the above figures as their remuneration is set by Prime Ministerial Determinations and the Remuneration Tribunal respectively.

Note: This table excludes 18 employees on temporary transfer to other organisations including the Office of the Governor-General, Parliament House and other government agencies.

Performance pay

The former AusAID 2012–13 performance management cycle concluded on 31 August 2013. For this cycle, 870 employees (SES and non-SES) received a bonus, totalling $1.829 million. In the DFAT 2012–13 performance cycle, 1238 non-SES employees received bonuses totalling $2.394 million.

As a result of integration, former AusAID and Climate Change employees participated in the DFAT 2013–14 performance cycle which concluded on 31 March 2014. A total of 2433 non-SES employees received a performance bonus, at a cost of $4.820 million in this cycle. The increase in bonuses paid in the 2013–14 performance cycle is due to increased staff numbers resulting from integration and the higher number of staff at the top of each band or broadband since annual increments were introduced in the 2009–10 performance cycle.

Table 26 shows the total bonus payments made for the reporting period covering the former AusAID and DFAT performance cycles. The total number of staff receiving a performance bonus for this reporting period was 3303, totalling $6.649 million.

Table 26: Performance bonus payments by level 2013–14
Substantive classification Number of staff who received a performance bonus Aggregated (Total) amount Average amount Range of payments
        Minimum amount* Maximum amount
TOTAL 3,303 6,649,051 2,010 494 6,091
APS 3 55 64,359 1,188 494 1,360
APS4 (former AusAID only) 16 20,302 1,269 544 1,360
APS 5 509 735,871 1,442 561 1,747
APS 6 629 1,056,479 1,678 656 2,159
EL1 1,410 2,939,693 2,086 596 2,444
EL2** 647 1,692,048 2,617 882 3,453
SES (former AusAID only) 37 140,299 3,792 3,518 6,091

* Low minimum payment figures are due to payment of pro rata bonuses to staff who worked only part of the performance management cycle.

** Includes Medical Officers and eligible EL2 HOM–HOPs who are at the top of the EL2 level or have elected to receive a bonus.