Civil Service Statistics data browser (2021)

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

Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Disability Ethnicity Responsibility_level_ungrouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared disabled Asian AA 60 50 20310 20230
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared disabled Asian AO 725 635 22470 21180
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared disabled Black AA 55 50 21330 21550
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared disabled Black AO 410 370 24030 23500
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared disabled Chinese AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared disabled Chinese AO 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared disabled Mixed AA 25 20 [c] [c]
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared disabled Mixed AO 270 245 22570 21010
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared disabled Other ethnicity AA 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared disabled Other ethnicity AO 65 60 22620 21010
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared disabled Undeclared AA 45 40 19200 19560
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared disabled Undeclared AO 550 490 22530 21050
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared disabled Unknown AA 50 45 20080 20070
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared disabled Unknown AO 370 315 22540 21440
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared disabled White AA 1805 1600 19760 19560
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared disabled White AO 11075 9680 22210 21010
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared non-disabled Asian AA 505 460 20700 20600
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared non-disabled Asian AO 5860 5155 22300 21050
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared non-disabled Black AA 370 350 21780 21550
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared non-disabled Black AO 2755 2570 24350 23500
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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).