Australian Bureau of Statistics
Celebrating the International Year of Statistics 2013

KEY FIGURES

	Employees June 2012	Cash wages and salaries 2011-12
	'000	$m
Commonwealth Government	250.0	18 956.3
State Government	1 449.6	99 444.1
Local Government	192.5	10 495.4
Total Public Sector	1 892.1	128 895.8

KEY POINTS

• In June 2012 there were 1,892,100 public sector employees. There were 250,000 employees in Commonwealth government, 1,449,600 in state government and 192,500 in local government.

• Total cash wages and earnings for all sectors was $128,895.8m.
  
  

REVISIONS

Revisions have been made to the June 2011 employment and the 2010-11 cash wages and salaries data. These revisions are reflected in Tables 1, 2 and 3.


INQUIRIES

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