Civil Service Statistics data browser (2022)

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

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Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Sex Ethnicity Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2022 AA/AO Female Asian 4870 4065 22520 21410
In post 2022 AA/AO Female Black 2495 2255 23800 23720
In post 2022 AA/AO Female Mixed 1155 1030 22880 21430
In post 2022 AA/AO Female Other ethnicity 285 250 23100 22080
In post 2022 AA/AO Female Undeclared 2210 1840 22190 21300
In post 2022 AA/AO Female Unknown 12075 10790 22320 21300
In post 2022 AA/AO Female White 54445 46535 22140 21260
In post 2022 AA/AO Male Asian 3640 3460 22850 21260
In post 2022 AA/AO Male Black 1650 1595 25720 24310
In post 2022 AA/AO Male Mixed 855 830 24420 22570
In post 2022 AA/AO Male Other ethnicity 275 265 24970 23350
In post 2022 AA/AO Male Undeclared 2430 2300 23750 21680
In post 2022 AA/AO Male Unknown 10720 10355 23390 21640
In post 2022 AA/AO Male White 40050 38225 23880 21680
In post 2022 AA/AO Unknown Asian [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 AA/AO Unknown Black [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 AA/AO Unknown Mixed [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 AA/AO Unknown Other ethnicity [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 AA/AO Unknown White [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 EO Female Asian 6105 5530 28450 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.
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.
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).