Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Parent_department / Age / Responsibility_level_grouped

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Status Year Parent_department Age Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 16-19 AA/AO 55 55 21130 20980
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 16-19 EO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 20-29 AA/AO 570 560 22990 22870
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 20-29 EO 625 620 28090 27760
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 20-29 G6/G7 195 195 52200 52020
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 20-29 SEO/HEO 335 330 37180 38760
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 30-39 AA/AO 220 195 23400 22870
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 30-39 EO 330 315 28200 27800
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 30-39 G6/G7 1305 1245 56140 53670
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 30-39 SCS level 10 10 79880 78000
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 30-39 SEO/HEO 415 400 37560 38760
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 40-49 AA/AO 275 240 23350 22870
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 40-49 EO 380 345 28610 28540
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 40-49 G6/G7 1680 1540 59880 58820
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 40-49 SCS level 110 105 83020 79860
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 40-49 SEO/HEO 395 380 37270 38760
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 50-59 AA/AO 370 340 23450 22870
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 50-59 EO 520 480 29180 28850
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 50-59 G6/G7 1530 1435 62060 60800
In post 2023 Attorney General’s Departments 50-59 SCS level 175 170 92500 86410
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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.
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.
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).