Civil Service Statistics data browser (2021)

Data preview: All civil servants / Ethnicity / Responsibility_level_grouped / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Disability

Status Year Ethnicity Responsibility_level_grouped Responsibility_level_ungrouped Disability Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2021 Asian AA/AO AA Declared disabled 60 50 20310 20230
In post 2021 Asian AA/AO AA Declared non-disabled 505 460 20700 20600
In post 2021 Asian AA/AO AA Undeclared 35 30 21360 21550
In post 2021 Asian AA/AO AA Unknown 55 45 20860 20070
In post 2021 Asian AA/AO AO Declared disabled 725 635 22470 21180
In post 2021 Asian AA/AO AO Declared non-disabled 5860 5155 22300 21050
In post 2021 Asian AA/AO AO Undeclared 325 275 23030 21050
In post 2021 Asian AA/AO AO Unknown 435 395 22640 21440
In post 2021 Asian EO EO Declared disabled 1010 925 28640 27950
In post 2021 Asian EO EO Declared non-disabled 7835 7315 28200 27570
In post 2021 Asian EO EO Undeclared 425 400 28340 27570
In post 2021 Asian EO EO Unknown 545 515 28210 27570
In post 2021 Asian G6/G7 G6 Declared disabled 50 50 67550 66600
In post 2021 Asian G6/G7 G6 Declared non-disabled 465 450 69070 67160
In post 2021 Asian G6/G7 G6 Undeclared 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Asian G6/G7 G6 Unknown 80 75 69610 67130
In post 2021 Asian G6/G7 G7 Declared disabled 175 170 55870 54500
In post 2021 Asian G6/G7 G7 Declared non-disabled 1850 1800 56100 54700
In post 2021 Asian G6/G7 G7 Undeclared 95 90 54900 54610
In post 2021 Asian G6/G7 G7 Unknown 270 260 54850 53620
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Notes: Summary figures are suppressed when information relates to less than 5 civil servants for FTE or Headcount, and less than 10 civil servants for median and mean salary (shown as [c]). Zero responses and salaries for less than 30 civil servants have been suppressed for GPDR special category data. FTE figures are not shown for entrants or leavers due to data quality concerns for these groups. Figures are rounded to the nearest 5, or £10 as appropriate.

Data source: All figures are aggregated from the Cabinet Office Annual Civil Service Employment Survey collection.

Version: Generated on 2023-02-17, with GIT 71a76ea.

Data column Description
Status Employment status of the civil servants.
In post - includes staff that were in post on the reference date (31 March).
New entrant CS - includes new entrants to the Civil Service over the year (1 April to 31 March).
Leaver CS - includes leavers from the Civil Service over the year (1 April to 31 March). This includes employees who have an Unknown leaving cause.
Leaver Dept. - includes leavers from the department over the year (1 April to 31 March), who did not leave the Civil Service.
Five organisations do not report when their employees first entered the Civil Service and so entrants data for these organisations is not available . These are as follows: Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (excl. agencies), Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office Services, Defence Electronics and Components Agency, Scottish Forestry and Forest and Land Scotland. A further three organisations also could not provide entrants data in 2021. These are as follows: Department for International Development, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (excl. agencies) and Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
Year Year of data collection (as at 31 March).
Responsibility_level_grouped With the exception of the centrally managed Senior Civil Service, government departments have delegated pay and grading. For statistical purposes departments are asked to map their grades to a common framework by responsibility level.
This table shows staff in their substantive responsibility level unless on temporary promotion in which case staff are recorded at the higher responsibility level.
Responsibility_level_grouped combines the mapped grades into five broad responsibility levels. This is the headline measure for responsibility level for the Civil Service and is consistent with the published National Statistics.
Responsibility_level_ungrouped With the exception of the centrally managed Senior Civil Service, government departments have delegated pay and grading. For statistical purposes departments are asked to map their grades to a common framework by responsibility level.
This table shows staff in their substantive responsibility level unless on temporary promotion in which case staff are recorded at the higher responsibility level.
Responsibility_level_ungrouped shows the mapped grades at a higher level of detail, however not all Government Departments / bodies have distinct grades that map exactly to these levels so figures should be considered as approximations and treated with caution.
Ethnicity Self reported ethnicity. “Undeclared” accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their ethnicity and “Unknown” accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their ethnicity.
For consistency with Civil Service Statistics, ‘Chinese’ is shown separately in the 2021 figures, but counted within ‘Asian’ from 2022 onwards.
Disability Self reported disability.
“Undeclared” accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their disability status and “Unknown” accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their disability status.
Headcount Total number of civil servants (rounded to nearest 5).
FTE Total full-time equivalent (FTE) employment numbers (rounded to nearest 5).
FTE figures are not shown for entrants or leavers due to data quality concerns for these groups.
Mean_salary Average salary (mean, rounded to nearest £10). For part-time employees, salaries represent the full-time equivalent earnings, while for full-time employees they are the actual annual gross salaries.
These figures should be interpreted with caution when the total number of employees in a group is small, as they will tend to show more variability than larger groups (i.e. may be much higher or lower than can be explained by the data shown).
Median_salary Median salary (rounded to nearest £10). For part-time employees, salaries represent the full-time equivalent earnings, while for full-time employees they are the actual annual gross salaries.
These figures should be interpreted with caution when the total number of employees in a group is small, as they will tend to show more variability than larger groups (i.e. may be much higher or lower than can be explained by the data shown).