Finance Costing Template

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This is a standard departmental costing template used by Finance for the 2025-26 Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook and 2026-27 Budget process. The template enables agencies to calculate staffing costs across multiple salary levels (Graduate through Senior Executive Service equivalent grades) with built-in efficiency dividend reductions of 1.00% annually across 2025-26 to 2029-30. It structures costs for base salary, on-costs including superannuation (15.4%), leave liability, and workers' compensation premiums. The template applies efficiency dividends to salary and leave provisions but excludes them from workers' compensation calculations. It accommodates forward estimates across five financial years, requiring agencies to input new full-time equivalent numbers at each classification level to generate total departmental staffing cost projections. This is a procedural tool used government-wide for budget submission standardisation.