Civil Service Statistics data browser (2022)

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

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Status Year Ethnicity Sexual_orientation Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2022 Asian Heterosexual / straight AA/AO 6705 6005 22670 21260
In post 2022 Asian Heterosexual / straight EO 8980 8490 28310 27570
In post 2022 Asian Heterosexual / straight G6/G7 3235 3160 58820 57290
In post 2022 Asian Heterosexual / straight SCS level 270 265 90840 85000
In post 2022 Asian Heterosexual / straight SEO/HEO 7965 7760 37250 36500
In post 2022 Asian Heterosexual / straight Unknown 785 735 30030 28200
In post 2022 Asian LGBO AA/AO 190 170 23060 21300
In post 2022 Asian LGBO EO 205 190 28230 27570
In post 2022 Asian LGBO G6/G7 105 105 57210 55210
In post 2022 Asian LGBO SCS level 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2022 Asian LGBO SEO/HEO 195 190 37580 36720
In post 2022 Asian LGBO Unknown 20 15 [c] [c]
In post 2022 Asian Undeclared AA/AO 605 525 22680 21680
In post 2022 Asian Undeclared EO 585 530 28580 28310
In post 2022 Asian Undeclared G6/G7 175 170 58420 56740
In post 2022 Asian Undeclared SCS level 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2022 Asian Undeclared SEO/HEO 455 440 37620 36880
In post 2022 Asian Undeclared Unknown 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2022 Asian Unknown AA/AO 1010 825 22530 21260
In post 2022 Asian Unknown EO 1050 930 28580 27570
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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.
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).