According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), the public sector pay bill rose by 8% nationally in 2023-24 to $232 billion. The federal government’s wage bill rose by 10% to $37.3 billion in 2023-24, while the number of federal public servants grew by more than 4% to 365,400. Last financial year, only the ACT
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