Worley
ASX:WORGlobal engineering and professional services for energy and resources.
Reported Offshore Headcount
5,400+
reported 1 Jan 2024, Worley India, "over 6,000 people" across eight offices (company websit...
Estimated % of Workforce
~11.9%
illustrative, not directly reported by the company
Destination Countries
Financial Context
Market Cap
$12.0B
Revenue
$10.6B
Net Profit
$500M
Estimated Wage Differential
~$459M/yr
CEO: Chris Ashton
$4,800,000
62x avg Australian worker
Illustrative wage differential: if the 5,400+ reported offshore roles were instead employed in Australia at average local rates, the additional cost could be in the order of ~$459M/yr (~91.8% of reported net profit). This is an estimate based on industry averages, not company-specific data.
Would this company be profitable without offshoring?
Every dollar paid offshore leaves the Australian economy, reducing local wages, tax receipts, and economic circulation. Why it matters
Financial data: FY2024. Estimate uses avg AU employment cost of $110,000+/yr (incl. super and on-costs) vs offshore $25,000/yr (salary + on-costs). Actual figures vary by role, seniority, and location.
In Plain English
- In 2024, Worley was reported to have 5,400+ offshore contractors and staff.
- This represents ~11.9% when compared to its current workforce of 45,505 (illustrative comparison only, not directly reported by the company).
Based on data from public sources at the dates reported. Figures may not reflect current headcount. See sources below for full attribution.
The Story
- Correction, October 2026This page previously showed Worley with 6,000 offshore workers in India, against a group workforce of 60,000. All three parts were wrong. The 6,000 came from Worley's own India web page, which says "over 6,000 people" with a stat card reading 6,887, but that page counts every Worley person in India, including those working on Indian domestic projects. Worley's FY2025 annual report gives the figure that actually matters here, and it is smaller: "We have over 5,400 people in our GID team, up from 5,200 in FY2024". Global Integrated Delivery is the offshore delivery model, and that 5,400 covers India and Colombia together, not India alone. Group headcount is 45,505 at 30 June 2025 across 44 countries, not 60,000. So the figure is now 5,400 of 45,505, or 11.9%. Worley publishes no country split of the 5,400, so India and Colombia are shown as confirmed locations without a headcount each, and the group figure carries the count. Counting all of Worley India would repeat the mistake this site made with CBA's New Zealand staff: work for a local market is not Australian work performed offshore. [Worley Annual Report FY2025 (p30, p16)]
- 2026Worley's own India page lists eight offices: Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Vadodara among them. It gives "over 6,000 people" in the body text and 6,887 in a statistic card, with no date attached. That is every Worley person in India rather than the GID delivery team, which is why this site counts the annual report's GID figure instead. [Worley (company website)]
- FY2025 (30 June 2025)Worley discloses its offshoring more plainly than most ASX companies, and in its own words. In FY2025, 14.7% of its project hours were delivered through Global Integrated Delivery, around 8.3 million hours across more than 4,300 projects, from GID centres in India and Colombia. The GID team grew to over 5,400 people from 5,200 the year before. Worley describes GID as letting its teams "enable rapid scaling", and page 58 of the same report notes Worley is the eighth-largest Australian-listed employer with 45,500 employees. India has been doing this work for Worley for 25 years. [Worley Annual Report FY2025 (p30)]
All facts sourced from public reporting. No editorial commentary. Click source links to verify.
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What Public Sources Say
All information below is sourced from publicly available documents and reporting. Excerpts are direct quotes. Click source links to verify.
“8.3 million hours delivered through our GID centers in India and Colombia. GID headcount up 4% from FY2024. 339 graduates hired in India (highest intake of 582 total). Our global integrated delivery (GID) model continues to improve efficiency and reduce cost for our customers.”
“Over 6,000 people across eight offices in India. 25 years of Global Integrated Delivery (GID). Offices in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Vadodara. Supports local customers and collaborates with international teams to design complex assets globally.”
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This list is not complete, and never will be
If a company isn't listed here, that doesn't mean it doesn't offshore. And every number is the lowest we can prove, so the real figures can often be higher.
This started as an ASX 200 project and mostly still is. It has widened as stories landed from outside that list, so it now also covers employers that aren't ASX-listed, like Canva, Allianz Australia, SS&C and Crown Resorts, along with government departments and agencies. Companies get added when something surfaces about them, not by working through a list in order.
Australian companies are under no obligation to disclose where their work is done, and there is no register of offshored jobs. Everything here comes from something that surfaced publicly: an annual report, a modern slavery statement, a news article, a union statement, a government contract, or a tip from someone who was there.
So an absence usually means nobody has reported on that company and we haven't got to it yet, not that it keeps its work onshore. Some of the biggest offshorers say nothing at all. And because each figure counts only what a source actually stated, the real numbers can often run higher, sometimes much higher.
Every figure links to the source it came from, so you can judge it yourself rather than take our word for it. If you know something that is missing or wrong, tell us. Corrections are published, not quietly buried.
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