Civil Service Statistics data browser (2022)

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

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Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Age Ethnicity Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2022 AA/AO 16-19 Asian 65 60 21550 21260
In post 2022 AA/AO 16-19 Black 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2022 AA/AO 16-19 Mixed 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2022 AA/AO 16-19 Other ethnicity [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 AA/AO 16-19 Undeclared 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2022 AA/AO 16-19 Unknown 350 330 21540 21250
In post 2022 AA/AO 16-19 White 445 430 21350 21250
In post 2022 AA/AO 20-29 Asian 1860 1775 22180 21260
In post 2022 AA/AO 20-29 Black 525 510 24210 23720
In post 2022 AA/AO 20-29 Mixed 635 615 23530 21840
In post 2022 AA/AO 20-29 Other ethnicity 120 115 23810 23140
In post 2022 AA/AO 20-29 Undeclared 335 320 23390 21840
In post 2022 AA/AO 20-29 Unknown 7715 7510 22790 21640
In post 2022 AA/AO 20-29 White 15375 15020 22890 21410
In post 2022 AA/AO 30-39 Asian 1955 1745 22470 21260
In post 2022 AA/AO 30-39 Black 745 690 24650 23140
In post 2022 AA/AO 30-39 Mixed 455 420 23790 21840
In post 2022 AA/AO 30-39 Other ethnicity 110 105 24000 21860
In post 2022 AA/AO 30-39 Undeclared 665 610 23490 21680
In post 2022 AA/AO 30-39 Unknown 5270 4895 23270 21410
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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.
Age Age in 10 year bands. Age is calculated as at the reference date in each year (31st March), so entrants or leavers may have been up to one year younger at the date of exit or entry.
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).