A WA parliamentary question seeks detailed information on Senior Executive Staff (SES) numbers, salaries, benefits, and projected cost increases within government agencies under the Premier's portfolio. The response provides overall SES numbers but declines to provide specific salary and benefit details due to resource constraints.

AnsweredQoN 5339Legislative Assembly
Asked
5 April 2016
Portfolio
Premier; Minister for State Development; Science

QuestionView source ↗

In relation to each Government agency within the Minister's portfolio, I ask: (a) how many Senior Executive Staff (SES) staff are there currently in the agency; (b) how
many SES staff were there in the agency in each of 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
and 2015; (c) what
is the title of each SES staff member and the salary paid to each SES staff
member; (d) what
is the total cost of non-salary benefits to be paid to the agency's SES staff
members in 2016; (e) what
was the total cost of non-salary benefits paid to the agency's SES staff
members in each of 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015; (f) what
is the assumed increase in the SES salary costs over each year of 2016/17,
2017/18 and 2018/19; and (g) what
is the assumed increase in the SES non-salary costs over each year of 2016/17,
2017/18 and 2018/19?

AnswerView source ↗

Answered
10 May 2016
Response time
35 days
The Public Sector Commission advises
(a) As at 26 April 2016 there are 499 SES officers across all public sector agencies.
(b) Please see table below
Date
SES officers in the public sector
30 June 2010
413
30 June 2011
442
30 June 2012
479
30 June 2013
507
30 June 2014
510
30 June 2015
505
(c) – (d) Departments have advised that answering these specific questions will require extensive and time consuming analysis. I am not prepared to divert valuable resources away from other duties to undertake this task and believe questions (a) to (b) provide an appropriate overview.

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