Question Without Notice No. 908 asked in the Legislative Council on 30 November 2017 by Hon Dr Steve Thomas
Parliament: 40 Session: 1
PUBLIC SECTOR — STAFF AND WAGES
908. Hon Dr STEVE THOMAS to the Leader of the House representing the Minister for Public Sector Management:
What has been the total number of general government public servants and the annual general government expenditure on public service wages in each financial year from 2001–02 or from the nearest available financial year to the end of the 2016–17 financial year?
Hon SUE ELLERY replied:
I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. The answer is in tabular form, so I seek leave to have it incorporated into Hansard.
Leave granted.
The following material was incorporated —
| General GovernmentSalaries$m | Public SectorFTE |
2001-02 | 4,209 | 83,763 |
2002-03 | 4,486 | 85,848 |
2003-04 | 4,787 | 87,651 |
2004-05 | 5,253 | 92,329 |
2005-06 | 5,694 | 95,056 |
2006-07 | 6,182 | 98,250 |
2007-08 | 6,906 | 97,348 |
2008-09 | 7,764 | 100,874 |
2009-10 | 8,284 | 102,318 |
2010-11 | 8,829 | 104,544 |
2011-12 | 9,605 | 107,579 |
2012-13 | 10,154 | 110,544 |
2013-14 | 10,682 | 108,999 |
2014-15 | 11,089 | 109,019 |
2015-16 | 11,383 | 107,809 |
2016-17 | 11,610 | 110,662 |