Civil Service Statistics data browser (2022)

Data preview: All civil servants / Ethnicity / Responsibility_level_grouped

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Status Year Ethnicity Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2022 Asian AA/AO 8515 7525 22660 21260
In post 2022 Asian EO 10815 10140 28350 27570
In post 2022 Asian G6/G7 3830 3730 58840 57290
In post 2022 Asian SCS level 330 320 91540 85000
In post 2022 Asian SEO/HEO 9320 9075 37310 36620
In post 2022 Asian Unknown 840 785 29920 28200
In post 2022 Black AA/AO 4145 3850 24560 23770
In post 2022 Black EO 5665 5425 29270 29290
In post 2022 Black G6/G7 1480 1465 58030 55760
In post 2022 Black SCS level 100 95 93280 82610
In post 2022 Black SEO/HEO 4495 4420 37710 37220
In post 2022 Black Unknown 1195 1150 31600 28690
In post 2022 Mixed AA/AO 2015 1860 23540 21680
In post 2022 Mixed EO 2320 2200 28270 27570
In post 2022 Mixed G6/G7 1475 1425 58500 56780
In post 2022 Mixed SCS level 150 145 84910 78630
In post 2022 Mixed SEO/HEO 2655 2585 37150 36500
In post 2022 Mixed Unknown 560 530 30850 28690
In post 2022 Other ethnicity AA/AO 560 515 24020 22560
In post 2022 Other ethnicity EO 725 685 28660 28210
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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 2023-02-14, 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.
Organisation specific notes on status: In late June 2021 around 7,000 employees from Community Rehabilitation Companies were transferred in from the private sector to HM Prison and Probation Service, counting as entrants. HM Land Registry do not record where their departing employees transfer to and so are unable to identify those that transfer to another Civil Service department.
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.
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).