Stats show virtually no change in federal public sector pay.

The Public Service Commission's new remuneration report shows the salary for an average Canberra bureaucrat was $108,382 on December 31.

She earned $127,701 with benefits like superannuation and allowances included - just $11 more than a year earlier.

In the same year, total pay across all industries in Australia rose by about 2.2 per cent.

Most public servants’ wage deals expired in July 2014, meaning many have not had a general pay rise for more than three years.

But that does not apply to senior executives, who are usually employed outside the enterprise agreements for lower-tier workers.

Much of the top brass not a nice bump when the Remuneration Tribunal awarded federal politicians, judges and top bureaucrats a 2 per cent pay rise in January.

The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) says the data underlines “how badly the Turnbull government's harsh, unreasonable and unworkable public sector bargaining policy has failed and why it must be changed”.

The government's “hypocrisy on this front is astounding, with politicians giving themselves and their most senior executives decent pay rises at the same time as they try to starve out lower-paid workers who are just trying to provide for their families,” according to CPSU national secretary Nadine Flood.

“These workers and their families have now had their wages frozen for more than three years. They deserve better,” she said.

“That's why hundreds of Immigration and Border Force workers will be striking on Friday, including at international airports, and why broader industrial action is also looming.”