Public service chief executives are making their expenses public in the coming week as part of efforts to promote more transparency in the sector.
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The annual disclosure also includes details of gifts and hospitality accepted.
The first two chief executives to release details of their expenses both spent considerably less than the previous year.
State Services Commissioner Iain Rennie spent $16,056 in the 2014-15 financial year of which $13,810 was spent on travel.
In 2013-14, he spent $27,099.
More details of Mr Rennie's expenses, gifts and hospitality are available on the State Services Commission website.
Treasury's chief executive Gabriel Makhlouf spent $37,291, compared to almost $64,806 the previous financial year.
The bulk of the chief executive's expenses were also on travel.
Mr Rennie said he introduced disclosure in 2010.
"It is important that chief executives have the resources to do their job effectively, which may include travel and the need to engage with stakeholders and represent their agency at a range of functions.
"Equally, there is quite rightly a strong interest in how public money is spent and what gifts and hospitality senior public servants are receiving," he said.
State services chief executives must release their expenses by next Friday.
