After a painstaking exercise to collate consultancies based on disclosures from all Victorian water authorities engaging consultants with expenditure above $10,000 for the 2022/23 financial year, the following are the top 20 consultancies with the highest earnings in the corresponding year.


Disclaimer: the information above was obtained using publicly available information disclosed as part of each authority’s annual report for the financial year 2022/23 with the exception of Greater Western Water which was obtained via a Freedom of Information (FOI) request. At the time of writing, the consultant expenditure reports for East Gippsland Water and Gippsland Water were not immediately available.
A full list of consultant’s earnings is downloadable here.
The complete register of Consultants Expenditure disclosures can be found here.