Sick days for Tasmanian public servants now cost over $70 million a year, leading the state’s Auditor-General to believe there is a growing culture of entitlement.

Auditor-General Mike Blake has completed a review of sick leave, carer's leave and domestic violence leave at five parts of the public service over the five years to mid-2014.

Among Tasmania’s 24,000 public servants, each full time equivalent position costs the state about $2,500 a year in sick and carer's leave.

Mr Blake said things were getting worse.

“We do a number of analyses which would indicate that a number of people are taking sick leave over quite lengthy periods of time, so does that mean there's a culture?” he said.

“I can't say explicitly - but it certainly looks like it.”

One possible indicator of the cause of the extensive leave was the finding that personal leave increased along with the duration of employment.

Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) secretary Tom Lynch argues that Government cuts to the public service were making work more stressful, forcing staff to take more sick days.

“It is worrying that there is a constant increase, but I think a lot of that is attributable to the cuts to the public sector,” he said.

“For 24,000 workers, [the amount of leave] was always going to be a big number.”

Premier Will Hodgman blamed the former Labor Government.

“This is a report that refers almost exclusively to the former government,” he said.

“Bryan Green [currently the opposition leader] is the last person who should be chirping off.

“It is almost exclusively the term of government of which he was a part.”