Table 32: All employees: job family by classification level, 31 December 2020
| Classification level | All | |||||||||||||
| Trainee | Graduate | APS 1 | APS 2 | APS 3 | APS 4 | APS 5 | APS 6 | EL 1 | EL 2 | SES 1 | SES 2 | SES 3 | ||
| Accounting and Finance | 12 | 1 | 1 | 41 | 359 | 845 | 810 | 1347 | 1106 | 325 | 3 | . | . | 4850 |
| Administration | 7 | 45 | 881 | 488 | 865 | 2261 | 1864 | 1972 | 1210 | 446 | 5 | 2 | . | 10046 |
| Communications and Marketing | . | 1 | . | 2 | 18 | 177 | 426 | 872 | 719 | 242 | 2 | . | . | 2459 |
| Compliance and Regulation | 21 | 7 | 6 | 547 | 2590 | 4469 | 2472 | 2783 | 1732 | 658 | . | . | . | 15285 |
| Engineering and Technical | . | 42 | . | 57 | 66 | 114 | 516 | 1205 | 565 | 116 | . | . | . | 2681 |
| ICT | 39 | 6 | 11 | 22 | 170 | 692 | 1120 | 2657 | 2680 | 760 | 5 | . | . | 8162 |
| Human Resources | 1 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 373 | 645 | 1062 | 1523 | 901 | 216 | 4 | . | . | 4751 |
| Information and Knowledge Management | . | . | 39 | 105 | 142 | 300 | 383 | 548 | 361 | 84 | 1 | . | . | 1963 |
| Intelligence | 1 | 2 | . | 4 | 59 | 305 | 683 | 963 | 555 | 156 | 3 | 1 | . | 2732 |
| Legal and Parliamentary | . | 6 | 1 | 32 | 146 | 363 | 414 | 690 | 1024 | 546 | 12 | 1 | . | 3235 |
| Monitoring and Audit | . | 1 | . | 1 | 16 | 110 | 339 | 615 | 527 | 176 | 1 | . | . | 1786 |
| Organisation Leadership | . | 1 | . | . | 7 | 22 | 87 | 347 | 1089 | 1921 | 1286 | 399 | 90 | 5249 |
| Health | . | 1 | . | . | 23 | 9 | 60 | 1228 | 293 | 158 | 24 | 4 | . | 1800 |
| Science | 2 | . | 92 | 64 | 102 | 129 | 267 | 1269 | 988 | 872 | 5 | 1 | . | 3791 |
| Service Delivery | 128 | 2 | 321 | 2536 | 8534 | 11879 | 4249 | 4456 | 1613 | 460 | 2 | 1 | . | 34181 |
| Project and Program | 2 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 79 | 567 | 1159 | 2701 | 2458 | 836 | 12 | 3 | . | 7834 |
| Research | 2 | 1 | 1 | 153 | 145 | 589 | 764 | 1331 | 1081 | 293 | 1 | . | . | 4361 |
| Strategic Policy | . | 15 | 2 | 13 | 36 | 232 | 868 | 2050 | 2968 | 962 | 50 | 10 | . | 7206 |
| Trades and Labour | . | . | 12 | 366 | 402 | 365 | 424 | 396 | 196 | 23 | . | . | . | 2184 |
| Development Program | 265 | 685 | 27 | 178 | 46 | 15 | 41 | 17 | 19 | 9 | 1 | . | 1 | 1304 |
| All | 480 | 823 | 1396 | 4643 | 14178 | 24088 | 18008 | 28970 | 22085 | 9259 | 1417 | 422 | 91 | 125860 |
Source: APSED