Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

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Status Year Function_of_post Disability Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Analysis Declared disabled AA/AO 30 30 22810 22500
In post 2023 Analysis Declared disabled EO 95 90 28130 27890
In post 2023 Analysis Declared disabled G6/G7 320 300 58140 56230
In post 2023 Analysis Declared disabled SCS level 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Analysis Declared disabled SEO/HEO 585 560 37440 37870
In post 2023 Analysis Declared disabled Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Analysis Declared non-disabled AA/AO 105 100 22630 22180
In post 2023 Analysis Declared non-disabled EO 535 515 27660 27210
In post 2023 Analysis Declared non-disabled G6/G7 2420 2310 60620 58370
In post 2023 Analysis Declared non-disabled SCS level 165 160 88890 82400
In post 2023 Analysis Declared non-disabled SEO/HEO 3070 2975 37960 38030
In post 2023 Analysis Declared non-disabled Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Analysis Undeclared AA/AO 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Analysis Undeclared EO 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Analysis Undeclared G6/G7 145 140 60350 58000
In post 2023 Analysis Undeclared SCS level [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Analysis Undeclared SEO/HEO 190 185 37730 37690
In post 2023 Analysis Unknown AA/AO 90 90 23300 23340
In post 2023 Analysis Unknown EO 255 245 27810 27650
In post 2023 Analysis Unknown G6/G7 615 595 57950 55720
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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.
Function_of_post Functions relate to the post occupied by the person and are not dependent on qualifications the individual may have.
Welsh Government and Royal Fleet Auxiliary did not report any functions information for their employees.
Of the 20 bodies under the Scottish Government, 16 did not report any functions information for their employees.
Disability Self reported disability.
"Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their disability status and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their disability status.
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).