Who is the sector?

Queensland’s public sector workforce serves their community in many ways, across many locations.

We know from workforce surveys that many people working in the sector believe their work has a positive impact on the lives of Queenslanders.

Queensland’s public sector is made up of over 100 different organisations—varying in size from around 20 employees to large departments with over 100,000 staff. We work throughout the state with more than half of the sector working outside of our largest city.

Most public sector work involves delivering services directly to Queenslanders—including as teachers and teacher aides, nurses and midwives, allied health professionals, ambulance officers, scientists, social workers, registry officers, or park rangers.

A much smaller proportion of our public sector is working behind the scenes to support the delivery of these frontline services. These roles relate to administration, communications, human resources, information and technology (IT), and policy development and implementation.

It’s not just our roles that are diverse.

We are also committed to building a workforce that reflects the diverse community we serve. This allows us to understand and connect with our communities even better.

We are already a multigenerational workforce, and we are committed to ensuring equitable workforce representation for Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, women in leadership, and those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. We also remain committed to enhancing policy, procedures and practice to improve employment outcomes for our LGBTIQ+ workforce.