Targets require a cheaper public service: analyst Federal bureaucrats must be cheaper, more mobile and easier to sack, if the government is to achieve its ambitious savings targets, says a public sector labour analyst. Jennifer Wyborn from Meyer Vandenberg Lawyers says next year's service-wide enterprise bargaining is a chance for the government to keep a lid on wages growth, achieve productivity gains and curb the bureaucracy's generous redundancy pay-outs. Enterprise agreements for the nation's 170,000 federal public servants expire on June 30, 2014, and Ms Wyborn, writing in Fairfax Media's Public Sector Informant says the new round of talks are a test of resolve for the Abbott government. Unions are likely to demand a move towards ending the pay gaps of tens of thousands of dollars, in some cases, between public servants working at the same level in different departments. But Ms Wyborn says looking at raw wage numbers is a simplistic approach to an increasingly complex internal jobs market in the public service. "A simplistic focus on raw wage disparity ... ignores the variety of work performed across the APS," she writes. No two jobs are the same: different work is performed and different skills are needed, even though the positions may be at the same level.