Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

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

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Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Sexual_orientation Ethnicity Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Asian 7215 6470 23750 22520
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Black 3585 3355 25900 25480
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Mixed 1600 1475 25050 22520
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Other ethnicity 415 385 25360 23850
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Undeclared 770 700 24250 22500
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Unknown 1050 945 24700 22520
In post 2023 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight White 70955 64065 24230 22500
In post 2023 AA/AO LGBO Asian 185 170 24000 22520
In post 2023 AA/AO LGBO Black 90 85 25440 24480
In post 2023 AA/AO LGBO Mixed 190 180 25310 23230
In post 2023 AA/AO LGBO Other ethnicity 40 40 25990 23880
In post 2023 AA/AO LGBO Undeclared 90 85 25390 22520
In post 2023 AA/AO LGBO Unknown 60 55 25330 22520
In post 2023 AA/AO LGBO White 5005 4790 24600 22520
In post 2023 AA/AO Undeclared Asian 585 510 23630 22520
In post 2023 AA/AO Undeclared Black 230 200 25450 25480
In post 2023 AA/AO Undeclared Mixed 155 140 24660 22520
In post 2023 AA/AO Undeclared Other ethnicity 35 30 24780 23210
In post 2023 AA/AO Undeclared Undeclared 2600 2370 24250 22400
In post 2023 AA/AO Undeclared Unknown 350 310 24970 22520
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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).