Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Ethnicity / Parent_department

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Status Year Ethnicity Parent_department Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Asian Attorney General’s Departments 1230 1155 42880 40800
In post 2023 Asian Cabinet Office 755 745 44500 36840
In post 2023 Asian Chancellor’s other departments 55 55 50180 46910
In post 2023 Asian Charity Commission 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Asian Competition and Markets Authority 130 125 49640 43240
In post 2023 Asian Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 950 930 42240 41060
In post 2023 Asian Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 155 155 46470 43890
In post 2023 Asian Department for Education 870 850 41940 37880
In post 2023 Asian Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 510 500 36740 33830
In post 2023 Asian Department for International Trade 310 305 46180 41550
In post 2023 Asian Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities 320 310 43850 38130
In post 2023 Asian Department for Transport 720 695 39110 35400
In post 2023 Asian Department for Work and Pensions 7895 7115 29420 28120
In post 2023 Asian Department of Health and Social Care 1165 1115 44720 40470
In post 2023 Asian Estyn [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Asian Food Standards Agency 70 70 41000 38100
In post 2023 Asian Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office 495 485 45270 39220
In post 2023 Asian HM Land Registry 220 205 31990 28080
In post 2023 Asian HM Revenue and Customs 6485 6140 34430 32540
In post 2023 Asian HM Treasury 335 330 44660 40370
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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 2023-07-26, with GIT d545f65.

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.
Four 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, 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.
Year Year of data collection (as at 31 March).
Parent_department Government Department, total figures for both Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments include all of their Executive Agencies.
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).