Page 3259 - Week 07 - Thursday, 1 July 2010

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Public service—staffing
(Question No 730)

Mrs Dunne asked the Attorney-General, upon notice, on 23 March 2010:

(1) What was the head count and the full-time equivalent (FTE) count for staff employed in the courts administration unit as at 31 December 2009.

(2) How many of those staff referred to in part (1), both head count and FTEs, were (a) legal professionals, (b) support staff and (c) other staff.

(3) What were the roles and classifications of those staff referred to in part 2(c) as at 31 December 2009.

(4) What were the staffing costs, broken down into salaries and on-costs, for each category referred to in part (2) for the period 1 July to 31 December 2009.

(5) What is the projected head count and FTE count for (a) legal professionals, (b) support staff and (c) other staff as at 30 June 2010.

(6) What are the projected staffing costs, broken down into salaries and on-costs, for each category referred to in part (5) for the period 1 January to 30 June 2010.

Mr Corbell: The answer to the member’s questions are as follows:

The Answers to (1), (2), (4)-(6) are set out in the following table:

Courts Administration

Headcount as
at 31/12/09

FTE as
at

31/12/09

Actual Salaries 1/07/09- 31/12/09

Projected headcount as at 30/06/10

Projected FTE as at 30/06/10

Projected Salaries 01/01/10- 30/06/10

Legal professionals

4

4

*

*

*

*

Support staff

2

2

*

*

*

*

Other staff

13

12.59

*

*

*

*

Only salary splits available:

Court Executive including MC Registrar

6

5.89

$340,577

4

4

$299,237

SC Registrar including SC Deputy Registrar and EA

3

3

$149,898

3

3

$150,312

Finance Unit

5

4.7

$162,559

5

5

$163,100

Business Services Unit (BSU)

5

5

$126,972

4

4

$110,886

TOTAL

19

18.59

$780,006

16

16

$723,535

The department uses the Department of Treasury Salary and Admin On-Cost Model (October 2008) to determine salary on-costs estimates for each generic classification based on an average salary cost for each classification, and a standard figure for administrative on-costs.

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