Public Commissioner John Lloyd spent nearly $9000 of taxpayers' money last year on a makeover for his Canberra office as nearly 100,000 rank-and-file public servants spent their third year without a pay rise.

The office do-up for Mr Lloyd, who earns a salary package of nearly $680,000, included a $995 Samsung TV, answers to Parliamentary questions-on-notice reveal.

Australian Public Service Commissioner John Lloyd. Credit:Jay Cronan

The Public Service Commissioner also shelled out nearly $24,000 of taxpayers' money for an induction event for public service new recruits which included an appearance fee of nearly $12000 for a "thought leader" and stand-up comedian.

In March Mr Lloyd, who says the public service must show spending restraint, splashed out more than $5700, plus nearly $400 for photographs, for a $220-a-head dinner at Old Parliament House in Canberra for a group of senior bureaucrats, most of whom had been awarded the Public Service Medal.