Civil Service Statistics data browser (2021)

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

Status Year Sexual_orientation Responsibility_level_grouped Ethnicity Disability Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Asian Declared disabled 615 535 22360 21050
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Asian Declared non-disabled 4990 4475 22180 21100
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Asian Undeclared 235 205 22440 21010
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Asian Unknown 265 245 22660 21950
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Black Declared disabled 365 330 23750 23500
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Black Declared non-disabled 2620 2470 24090 23500
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Black Undeclared 150 140 25160 23500
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Black Unknown 130 120 23250 22370
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Chinese Declared disabled 15 10 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Chinese Declared non-disabled 170 155 22060 21050
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Chinese Undeclared 15 10 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Chinese Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Mixed Declared disabled 205 190 22430 21010
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Mixed Declared non-disabled 1125 1050 23230 21430
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Mixed Undeclared 65 60 23960 22080
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Mixed Unknown 65 60 22260 21990
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Other ethnicity Declared disabled 45 40 22640 21180
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Other ethnicity Declared non-disabled 325 300 23320 21540
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Other ethnicity Undeclared 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Other ethnicity Unknown 15 15 [c] [c]
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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.
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.
Sexual_orientation Self reported sexual orientation.
“Undeclared” accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their sexual orientation and “Unknown” accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their sexual orientation.
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).