Appendix 2—Staffing

The figures in these tables include staff on long-term paid leave, but exclude staff on leave without pay or on temporary movements out of the department at 30 June 2020, as well as non-ongoing staff employed on an irregular or intermittent basis who did not work on 30 June 2020.

Staff numbers, by classification, salary range and gender, 30 June 2021
  Salary ($) Gender Total
Classification   Male Female  
Clerk of the Senate 434,690* 1 - 1
Deputy Clerk of the Senate (SES Band 2) 229,715–241,805 - 1 1
Clerk Assistants and Usher of the Black Rod (SES Band 1) 189,542–199,068 2 2 4
Parliamentary Executive Level 2 (PEL 2) 143,910–153,874 12 11 23
Parliamentary Executive Level 1 (PEL 1) 115,685–129,584 11 23 34
Parliamentary Service Level 6 (APS 6) 95,721–105,001 14 33 47
Parliamentary Service Level 5 (APS 5) 84,980–90,246 2 4 6
Parliamentary Service Level 4 (APS 4) 76,067–81,705 8 19 27
Parliamentary Service Level 3 (APS 3) 67,824–73,270 9 18 27
Parliamentary Service Level 2 (APS 2) 59,684–66,456 3 2 5
Parliamentary Service Level 1 (APS 1) 53,091–58,964 2 1 3
Total 64 114 178

SES = Senior Executive Service, PEL = Parliamentary Executive, APS = Australian Parliamentary Service

* Indicates total remuneration package

Employees by gender
  2020–2021 2019–2020
Gender Ongoing Non-ongoing Ongoing Non-ongoing
Female 108 6 98 13
Male 58 6 52 5
Total 166 12 150 18

Full-time and part-time employees
  2020–2021 2019–2020
Full-time or part-time Ongoing Non-ongoing Ongoing Non-ongoing
Full-time 144 8 129 14
Part-time 22 4 21 4
Total 166 12 150 18

Employees by classification
  2020–2021 2019–2020
Classification Ongoing Non-ongoing Ongoing Non-ongoing
Clerk of the Senate - 1 - 1
SES2 1 - 2 -
SES1 4 - 4 -
PEL2 23 - 23 -
PEL1 32 2 27 3
APS6 44 3 41 7
APS5 6 - 5 -
APS4 26 1 25 2
APS3 23 4 16 5
APS2 5 - 5 -
APS1 2 1 2 -
Total 166 12 150 18