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    {
     "date": "2026-06-30",
     "jobs": 2657400
    }
   ]
  },
  "note": "Employee jobs, not people: someone with two public sector jobs counts twice. The ACT government does the work councils do elsewhere, so the ACT has no local government row. Per 1,000 residents is worked out by GST."
 },
 "asl": {
  "source_id": "bp4_2627",
  "rows": [
   {
    "fy": "2006-07",
    "excl_military": 167596,
    "military_reserves": 71026,
    "total": 238622,
    "kind": "revised estimate"
   },
   {
    "fy": "2007-08",
    "excl_military": 175531,
    "military_reserves": 72686,
    "total": 248217,
    "kind": "revised estimate"
   },
   {
    "fy": "2008-09",
    "excl_military": 175422,
    "military_reserves": 75144,
    "total": 250566,
    "kind": "revised estimate"
   },
   {
    "fy": "2009-10",
    "excl_military": 178970,
    "military_reserves": 79351,
    "total": 258321,
    "kind": "revised estimate"
   },
   {
    "fy": "2010-11",
    "excl_military": 181018,
    "military_reserves": 80873,
    "total": 261891,
    "kind": "revised estimate"
   },
   {
    "fy": "2011-12",
    "excl_military": 182505,
    "military_reserves": 79132,
    "total": 261637,
    "kind": "revised estimate"
   },
   {
    "fy": "2012-13",
    "excl_military": 179953,
    "military_reserves": 76678,
    "total": 256631,
    "kind": "revised estimate"
   },
   {
    "fy": "2013-14",
    "excl_military": 177258,
    "military_reserves": 76595,
    "total": 253853,
    "kind": "revised estimate"
   },
   {
    "fy": "2014-15",
    "excl_military": 166261,
    "military_reserves": 76874,
    "total": 243135,
    "kind": "revised estimate"
   },
   {
    "fy": "2015-16",
    "excl_military": 165648,
    "military_reserves": 77399,
    "total": 243047,
    "kind": "revised estimate"
   },
   {
    "fy": "2016-17",
    "excl_military": 166181,
    "military_reserves": 78314,
    "total": 244495,
    "kind": "revised estimate"
   },
   {
    "fy": "2017-18",
    "excl_military": 165276,
    "military_reserves": 78497,
    "total": 243773,
    "kind": "revised estimate"
   },
   {
    "fy": "2018-19",
    "excl_military": 165491,
    "military_reserves": 78815,
    "total": 244306,
    "kind": "revised estimate"
   },
   {
    "fy": "2019-20",
    "excl_military": 166762,
    "military_reserves": 80540,
    "total": 247302,
    "kind": "revised estimate"
   },
   {
    "fy": "2020-21",
    "excl_military": 168912,
    "military_reserves": 81671,
    "total": 250583,
    "kind": "revised estimate"
   },
   {
    "fy": "2021-22",
    "excl_military": 171938,
    "military_reserves": 81074,
    "total": 253012,
    "kind": "revised estimate"
   },
   {
    "fy": "2022-23",
    "excl_military": 181062,
    "military_reserves": 79903,
    "total": 260965,
    "kind": "revised estimate"
   },
   {
    "fy": "2023-24",
    "excl_military": 197108,
    "military_reserves": 79632,
    "total": 276740,
    "kind": "revised estimate"
   },
   {
    "fy": "2024-25",
    "excl_military": 209913,
    "military_reserves": 80390,
    "total": 290303,
    "kind": "revised estimate"
   },
   {
    "fy": "2025-26",
    "excl_military": 215941,
    "military_reserves": 84186,
    "total": 300127,
    "kind": "revised estimate"
   },
   {
    "fy": "2026-27",
    "excl_military": 217256,
    "military_reserves": 86660,
    "total": 303916,
    "kind": "budget estimate"
   }
  ],
  "conversions_since_2022": 13000
 },
 "external_labour": {
  "audits": [
   {
    "id": "aoe_2122",
    "fy": "2021-22",
    "published": "2023-05-06",
    "page": "3-4",
    "name": "Department of Finance and APSC, The Australian Government's report on the Audit of Employment (2021-22)",
    "url": "https://www.finance.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-05/Audit%20of%20Employment%20-%20Report_1.pdf",
    "entities": 112,
    "fte_total": 53911,
    "cost_aud": 20800000000.0,
    "asl_same_entities": 144271,
    "parts": [
     [
      "Outsourced service providers",
      28045
     ],
     [
      "Contractors",
      18196
     ],
     [
      "Labour hire",
      6716
     ],
     [
      "Consultants",
      954
     ]
    ],
    "note": "Includes outsourced service providers (for example cleaning, security, facilities; mostly Defence). Some agencies reported cost without FTE or FTE without cost."
   },
   {
    "id": "aoe_2324",
    "fy": "2023-24",
    "published": "2025-12-01",
    "page": "5",
    "name": "Department of Finance, Report on the 2023-24 Audit of Employment (December 2025)",
    "url": "https://www.finance.gov.au/sites/default/files/2025-12/2023-24-Audit-of-Employment.pdf",
    "entities": 108,
    "fte_total": 21970,
    "cost_aud": 5972000000.0,
    "asl_same_entities": null,
    "parts": [
     [
      "Contractors",
      12700
     ],
     [
      "Labour hire",
      7840
     ],
     [
      "Consultants",
      1430
     ]
    ],
    "spend_parts_aud": [
     [
      "Contractors",
      3961000000.0
     ],
     [
      "Labour hire",
      1475000000.0
     ],
     [
      "Consultants",
      536000000.0
     ]
    ],
    "note": "Consultants, contractors and labour hire only (no outsourced service providers). FTE rounded to the nearest 10. Finance says it sets a new baseline and is not directly comparable with 2021-22."
   }
  ],
  "finding": "Two official audits exist, for 2021-22 and 2023-24. Finance says they are not directly comparable (different scope and better reporting in 2023-24), so there is no official trend. There is no official count before 2021-22."
 },
 "release_lag": {
  "apsed": "The APSC publishes each 30 June snapshot about three months later (late September or early October) and each 31 December snapshot about three months later (March or April).",
  "abs": "The ABS publishes June public sector jobs once a year in early November.",
  "bp4": "ASL estimates come with each Budget (usually May)."
 },
 "notes": []
}