Civil Service Statistics data browser (2021)

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

Status Year Sexual_orientation Sex Responsibility_level_grouped Ethnicity Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Female AA/AO Asian 3365 2850 22070 21300
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Female AA/AO Black 1935 1765 23300 23090
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Female AA/AO Chinese 115 100 21720 21030
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Female AA/AO Mixed 850 765 22350 21130
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Female AA/AO Other ethnicity 225 200 22470 21430
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Female AA/AO Undeclared 400 345 21760 21330
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Female AA/AO Unknown 630 520 22010 21440
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Female AA/AO White 41265 35470 21570 21010
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Female EO Asian 4455 4065 28320 28010
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Female EO Black 2985 2845 29090 29290
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Female EO Chinese 145 135 27680 27570
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Female EO Mixed 1080 1010 27930 27570
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Female EO Other ethnicity 320 300 28530 27940
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Female EO Undeclared 445 405 28240 27570
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Female EO Unknown 410 370 27640 27570
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Female EO White 39870 35740 27240 27570
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Female G6/G7 Asian 1375 1325 58110 56540
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Female G6/G7 Black 670 660 57340 55190
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Female G6/G7 Chinese 110 110 59060 58080
In post 2021 Heterosexual / straight Female G6/G7 Mixed 535 505 58150 56370
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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 2023-02-16, 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.
Sex Self reported sex.
“Unknown” accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
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.
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).