Civil Service Statistics data browser (2022)

Data preview: All civil servants / Responsibility_level_grouped

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Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2022 AA/AO 137165 123795 22920 21380
In post 2022 EO 131270 122005 27990 27570
In post 2022 G6/G7 69450 67055 59110 57190
In post 2022 SCS level 7220 7000 90760 82550
In post 2022 SEO/HEO 141525 136270 37180 36410
In post 2022 Unknown 23450 21970 31610 28880
Leaver CS 2022 AA/AO 17405 [c] 21750 21260
Leaver CS 2022 EO 10590 [c] 27740 27570
Leaver CS 2022 G6/G7 4300 [c] 60120 57650
Leaver CS 2022 SCS level 710 [c] 98430 93740
Leaver CS 2022 SEO/HEO 8885 [c] 37470 36700
Leaver CS 2022 Unknown 2325 [c] 36730 33500
Leaver Dept. 2022 AA/AO 3345 [c] 21490 21260
Leaver Dept. 2022 EO 5250 [c] 27060 27570
Leaver Dept. 2022 G6/G7 4795 [c] 58000 54800
Leaver Dept. 2022 SCS level 865 [c] 98410 95140
Leaver Dept. 2022 SEO/HEO 9065 [c] 35780 35060
Leaver Dept. 2022 Unknown 340 [c] 38870 36590
New entrant CS 2022 AA/AO 24130 [c] 22040 21260
New entrant CS 2022 EO 16225 [c] 27120 27230
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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.
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).