Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

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

Status Year Ethnicity Responsibility_level_grouped Sex Sexual_orientation Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Female Heterosexual / straight 3935 3345 23410 22520
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Female LGBO 105 85 24240 22520
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Female Undeclared 400 330 23630 22520
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Female Unknown 605 465 23380 22520
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Male Heterosexual / straight 3280 3125 24150 22520
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Male LGBO 85 80 23720 22520
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Male Undeclared 190 175 23630 22520
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Male Unknown 350 320 23450 22520
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Unknown Heterosexual / straight [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Unknown LGBO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Unknown Undeclared [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Asian AA/AO Unknown Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Asian EO Female Heterosexual / straight 4865 4420 29370 28220
In post 2023 Asian EO Female LGBO 95 85 29640 28130
In post 2023 Asian EO Female Undeclared 365 315 29580 29660
In post 2023 Asian EO Female Unknown 595 505 29760 28130
In post 2023 Asian EO Male Heterosexual / straight 3870 3780 29250 28120
In post 2023 Asian EO Male LGBO 80 80 29180 28120
In post 2023 Asian EO Male Undeclared 190 180 29210 28120
In post 2023 Asian EO Male Unknown 340 330 29480 28130
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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 2023-07-27, 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).
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.
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).