Senior Executive Service staffing

Table 40: Advertised SES employment opportunities—Filling Method by Band 2006–07
Bands	Promotion	Movement	Engagement	Total
Band 1	239	28	59	326
Band 2	63	7	21	91
Band 3	7	1	3	11
Total	309	36	83	428

‘Promotion’ refers to the assignment of duties at a higher level to an ongoing APS employee. ‘Movement’ refers to the movement at level, or to a lower classification, of employees within and between agencies. ‘Engagement’ refers to the employment on an ongoing basis or for a specified term/task of a person who is not an ongoing APS employee. Source: Senior Executive Management System (SEMS), Australian Public Service Commission.

Table 41 covers both Senior Executive and Senior Executive (Specialist) classifications and includes both ongoing SES employees and SES employees engaged for specified terms of up to five years.

Table 41: Profile of the SES by band and gender, 30 June 2007
Bands	Males	Females	Total
Band 1	1103	655	1758
Band 2	318	153	471
Band 3	66	24	90
Total	1487	832	2319

Source: Senior Executive Management System (SEMS), Australian Public Service Commission

Table 42 compares SES promotions and engagements, SES separations and total SES numbers over the past two financial years.

Table 42: Comparison of incoming and outgoing SES, 2005–07
Bands	Promotions/ Engagements		Separations		Total SES
	2005–06	2006–07	2005–06	2006–07	2005–06	2006–07
Band 1	325	298	76	68	1561	1758
Band 2	76	84	28	25	404	471
Band 3	18	10	11	13	95	90
Total	419	392	115	106	2060	2319

Source: Senior Executive Management System (SEMS), Australian Public Service Commission

Table 43: Filling of SES employment opportunities advertised in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette from 2004–07
Method filled	Gender	2004–05	2005–06	2006–07
Promotions between agencies	M	22	41	28
Promotions between agencies	F	21	23	17
Promotions within agencies	M	124	161	140
Promotions within agencies	F	68	109	124
Total promotions	M	146	202	168
Total promotions	F	89	132	141
Movements between agencies	M	7	13	16
Movements between agencies	F	13	17	17
Movements within agencies	M	2	5	2
Movements within agencies	F	1	5	1
Total movements	M	9	18	18
Total movements	F	14	22	18
Engagements as ongoing employees	M	37	44	49
Engagements as ongoing employees	F	8	23	18
Engagements for a specified term/task	M	18	13	12
Engagements for a specified term/task	F	6	5	4
Total engagements	M	55	57	61
Total engagements	F	14	28	22
Total		327	459	428

Table 44: SES retirements under section 37, 2006–07
Agency	Total number
Australian Customs Service	2
Attorney-General’s Department	1
Australian Industrial Registry	1
Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency	1
Australian Taxation Office	1
Centrelink	2
Department of Defence	3
Department of Employment and Workplace Relations	1
Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs	3
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade	1
Department of Health and Ageing	1
Department of Immigration and Citizenship	1
Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources	2
Family Court of Australia	2
Medicare Australia	1
Total	23

Table 45: SES separations by type, 2006–07
Separation type	Total number
Retirement under section 37	23
Resignation	22
Retirement	39
End term engagement	14
Appointment to Public Office/Agency Head	3
By reduction	2
Invalidity Retirement	1
Death	2
Total	106