Civil Service Statistics data browser (2022)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sex / Responsibility_level_grouped

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Status Year Sex Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2022 Female AA/AO 77540 66765 22260 21260
In post 2022 Female EO 74880 67600 27770 27570
In post 2022 Female G6/G7 33930 32215 58590 56280
In post 2022 Female SCS level 3405 3250 88210 80290
In post 2022 Female SEO/HEO 72860 69105 36730 35900
In post 2022 Female Unknown 15435 14240 30140 28200
In post 2022 Male AA/AO 59625 57030 23790 21680
In post 2022 Male EO 56385 54400 28270 27570
In post 2022 Male G6/G7 35510 34835 59600 57480
In post 2022 Male SCS level 3815 3745 93030 84560
In post 2022 Male SEO/HEO 68660 67155 37650 36840
In post 2022 Male Unknown 8015 7730 34470 32090
In post 2022 Unknown EO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 Unknown G6/G7 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2022 Unknown SEO/HEO 10 10 [c] [c]
Leaver CS 2022 Female AA/AO 9340 [c] 21380 21260
Leaver CS 2022 Female EO 5915 [c] 27590 27570
Leaver CS 2022 Female G6/G7 2010 [c] 59330 56390
Leaver CS 2022 Female SCS level 330 [c] 97630 93370
Leaver CS 2022 Female SEO/HEO 4335 [c] 37010 36460
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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.
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).