Victoria's public service highly stressed

Victoria's pubic service employees are facing serious anxiety at work, with almost 25 per cent of workers reporting high-to-severe levels of stress.

More than 60 per cent of Victorian public service workers suffer moderate stress, a survey shows. (AAP)

Almost a quarter of Victoria's public service employees are severely stressed at work.

The results from the latest State of the Public Service report released on Friday shows more can be done to tackle mental health in the workplace.

More than 60 per cent of public service employees experienced moderate stress, with 24 per cent rating their levels as high-to-severe.

Emergency services and education staff were shown to be the most stressed at 28 per cent.

Public health care workers were at the other end of the scale on 22 per cent.

"Only 54 per cent of employees agreed that effective procedures were in place to support employees experiencing stress," the report stated.

"This suggests that public service organisations could be more active in implementing and promoting procedures to respond to workplace stress."

Although stress levels were up, reported cases of bullying are down from 20.1 per cent in 2016-17 to 16.2 per cent.

More than 12 per cent of workers say they experienced bullying but it had stopped before conducting the survey, with 4.4 per cent reporting it was still happening.

In total, 311,353 people were employed in Victoria's public sector during 2017-18, an increase of more 14,000 workers from a year earlier.

Women make up more than 61 per cent of the workforce and the average age of a person working in the public service is 43.

The report suggest the gender pay gap has almost halved in the last five years.