Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

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

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Status Year Responsibility_level_ungrouped Ethnicity Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 AA Asian AA/AO 665 590 22660 23000
In post 2023 AA Black AA/AO 525 495 24000 23500
In post 2023 AA Mixed AA/AO 200 185 22590 23230
In post 2023 AA Other ethnicity AA/AO 55 50 23360 23230
In post 2023 AA Undeclared AA/AO 375 340 21730 21380
In post 2023 AA Unknown AA/AO 4035 3710 22620 22520
In post 2023 AA White AA/AO 12845 11555 21980 22130
In post 2023 AO Asian AA/AO 8275 7340 23790 22520
In post 2023 AO Black AA/AO 3760 3485 26160 25480
In post 2023 AO Mixed AA/AO 1875 1720 25240 22520
In post 2023 AO Other ethnicity AA/AO 495 460 25510 24490
In post 2023 AO Undeclared AA/AO 3885 3485 24290 22500
In post 2023 AO Unknown AA/AO 21630 20195 24650 22520
In post 2023 AO White AA/AO 77975 69940 24580 22520
In post 2023 EO Asian EO 10400 9695 29350 28130
In post 2023 EO Black EO 5140 4890 30400 30260
In post 2023 EO Mixed EO 2250 2120 29350 28120
In post 2023 EO Other ethnicity EO 685 645 29750 29150
In post 2023 EO Undeclared EO 5155 4705 29550 28120
In post 2023 EO Unknown EO 18415 17600 29010 28120
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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.
Responsibility_level_ungrouped 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_ungrouped shows the mapped grades at a higher level of detail, however not all Government Departments / bodies have distinct grades that map exactly to these levels so figures should be considered as approximations and treated with caution.
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.
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).