Civil Service Statistics data browser (2022)

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Status Year Sexual_orientation Responsibility_level_ungrouped Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight AA AA/AO 11835 10800 20540 20550
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight AO AA/AO 74555 67395 23280 21680
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight EO EO 88330 82220 27930 27570
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight G6 G6/G7 13130 12645 68820 67600
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight G7 G6/G7 33890 32735 55330 54650
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight HEO SEO/HEO 55845 53585 33870 33370
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight SCS level SCS level 5110 4950 89910 82300
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight SEO SEO/HEO 41035 39575 41990 40590
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight Unknown Unknown 15515 14520 31570 28760
In post 2022 LGBO AA AA/AO 710 685 20770 20890
In post 2022 LGBO AO AA/AO 4685 4485 23510 21550
In post 2022 LGBO EO EO 5530 5355 27820 27570
In post 2022 LGBO G6 G6/G7 885 870 67960 66610
In post 2022 LGBO G7 G6/G7 2445 2405 55000 54200
In post 2022 LGBO HEO SEO/HEO 3875 3800 33450 33210
In post 2022 LGBO SCS level SCS level 365 360 87220 79360
In post 2022 LGBO SEO SEO/HEO 2515 2475 41330 40520
In post 2022 LGBO Unknown Unknown 1030 1000 29880 27060
In post 2022 Undeclared AA AA/AO 1555 1340 20090 19810
In post 2022 Undeclared AO AA/AO 9585 8485 23350 21680
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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.
Responsibility_level_ungrouped 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_ungrouped shows the mapped grades at a higher level of detail, however not all Government Departments / bodies have distinct grades that map exactly to these levels so figures should be considered as approximations and treated with caution.
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).