Civil Service Statistics data browser (2022)

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

Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Disability Sexual_orientation Ethnicity Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2022 AA/AO Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Asian 645 560 22740 21430
In post 2022 AA/AO Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Black 380 345 24160 23720
In post 2022 AA/AO Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Mixed 220 200 22720 21260
In post 2022 AA/AO Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Other ethnicity 40 35 23370 21410
In post 2022 AA/AO Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Undeclared 115 105 22920 21680
In post 2022 AA/AO Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Unknown 105 90 22180 21840
In post 2022 AA/AO Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight White 9935 8715 22300 21260
In post 2022 AA/AO Declared disabled LGBO Asian 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2022 AA/AO Declared disabled LGBO Black 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2022 AA/AO Declared disabled LGBO Mixed 50 45 23820 21680
In post 2022 AA/AO Declared disabled LGBO Other ethnicity 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2022 AA/AO Declared disabled LGBO Undeclared 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2022 AA/AO Declared disabled LGBO Unknown 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2022 AA/AO Declared disabled LGBO White 1085 1025 22690 21260
In post 2022 AA/AO Declared disabled Undeclared Asian 70 60 22630 21260
In post 2022 AA/AO Declared disabled Undeclared Black 40 35 23490 23420
In post 2022 AA/AO Declared disabled Undeclared Mixed 30 30 22750 21480
In post 2022 AA/AO Declared disabled Undeclared Other ethnicity 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2022 AA/AO Declared disabled Undeclared Undeclared 350 310 22530 21260
In post 2022 AA/AO Declared disabled Undeclared Unknown 25 20 [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 2023-02-15, 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.
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).