Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

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

Status Year Ethnicity Sexual_orientation Responsibility_level_grouped Age Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight AA/AO 16-19 65 65 22630 22520
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight AA/AO 20-29 1905 1830 23420 22520
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight AA/AO 30-39 1705 1530 23810 22520
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight AA/AO 40-49 1625 1385 23710 22520
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight AA/AO 50-59 1225 1095 23830 22520
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight AA/AO 60-64 425 365 24370 24380
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight AA/AO 65+ 255 205 24860 25610
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight EO 16-19 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight EO 20-29 2025 1995 28920 28120
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight EO 30-39 2440 2315 29000 28120
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight EO 40-49 2110 1945 29290 28130
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight EO 50-59 1565 1465 29860 29750
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight EO 60-64 400 330 30580 30410
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight EO 65+ 185 145 30800 30850
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight EO Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight G6/G7 20-29 295 290 56390 55190
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight G6/G7 30-39 1310 1285 59110 56830
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight G6/G7 40-49 1300 1265 61090 59290
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight G6/G7 50-59 680 665 62090 60270
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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.
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.
Age Age in 10 year bands. Age is calculated as at the reference date in each year (31st March), so entrants or leavers may have been up to one year younger at the date of exit or entry.
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).