Federal bureaucrats receive as much as $600 a year in special "healthy lifestyle" payments, to pay for gym memberships, fitness equipment and programs to quit smoking.
The payments became a popular feature of enterprise bargaining agreements in the public service in 2011 and now apply to 39 departments and agencies.
At a senate hearing last year, Liberal senator Dean Smith requested the Australian Public Service Commission produce a list of agencies and departments which provide such payments.
The commission's list, released to the Senate, said the payments - which averaged just over $300 a year - ranged from $100 paid to Screen Australia staff to $600 for Treasury and Inspector-General of Taxation officers.
Two departments, Education and Employment, provided $500 payments to their most senior-ranked officers and $200 for lower-ranked staff.
The National Museum of Australia and Australian National Maritime Museum provided one-off payments of $500 at the start of the EBA.
"We all should be healthy and monitoring our health," public service commissioner John Lloyd told the hearing last year.
No figures were provided on the total cost of the program.
