Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

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

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Status Year Ethnicity Sexual_orientation Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight AA/AO 7215 6470 23750 22520
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight EO 8735 8205 29320 28130
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight G6/G7 3730 3635 60300 58240
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight SCS level 290 280 92360 85000
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight SEO/HEO 8760 8520 38520 37740
In post 2023 Asian Heterosexual / straight Unknown 960 895 30170 27640
In post 2023 Asian LGBO AA/AO 185 170 24000 22520
In post 2023 Asian LGBO EO 175 165 29420 28120
In post 2023 Asian LGBO G6/G7 120 120 58640 56410
In post 2023 Asian LGBO SCS level 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Asian LGBO SEO/HEO 220 215 38810 39020
In post 2023 Asian LGBO Unknown 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Asian Undeclared AA/AO 585 510 23630 22520
In post 2023 Asian Undeclared EO 550 495 29450 28790
In post 2023 Asian Undeclared G6/G7 185 180 59930 57970
In post 2023 Asian Undeclared SCS level 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Asian Undeclared SEO/HEO 475 455 38850 38680
In post 2023 Asian Undeclared Unknown 35 35 29990 27420
In post 2023 Asian Unknown AA/AO 955 785 23410 22520
In post 2023 Asian Unknown EO 935 830 29660 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 2023-07-26, 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).
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.
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).