Updated Interactive Graph: Public Service Wage Comparison

Colourful Sydney Racing Identity over at the Riot-ACT helpfully posted a link to a CPSU wage data PDF file that contains the top salary increment for every public service agency in the country. 

After going through the ever painful process of getting data out of PDF tables I've extracted all that data out into a table. As an aside, my next post will include some tips on getting data out of PDF tables.

So now I have every public service department's wages in the graph below. Explore it to see how your department stacks up. 

Interactive Graph: Exploring Public Service Salary Levels

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Data:

You can find a copy of the data in spreadsheet from here:

http://bit.ly/cpsudata

Notes: 

Unlike my first graph the CPSU data is for the top increment in each classification. I'm fairly sure that the CPSU chose the top increment as there is more variance between departments at this level. This hammers there point home about the difference in wages across the public service. I think it is slightly misleading as most people are not employed on the top increment, particularly if you are thinking about changing departments, or joining the public service.