Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

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Status Year Responsibility_level_ungrouped Responsibility_level_grouped Sex Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 AA AA/AO Female 9130 7860 22110 22520
In post 2023 AA AA/AO Male 9575 9070 22290 22180
In post 2023 AO AA/AO Female 67260 58120 23690 22500
In post 2023 AO AA/AO Male 50635 48510 25800 22520
In post 2023 EO EO Female 72420 65275 28770 28120
In post 2023 EO EO Male 54915 52865 29440 28120
In post 2023 EO EO Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 G6 G6/G7 Female 10080 9550 70480 68980
In post 2023 G6 G6/G7 Male 10660 10410 71260 70260
In post 2023 G6 G6/G7 Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 G7 G6/G7 Female 27130 25820 56380 55610
In post 2023 G7 G6/G7 Male 27345 26820 57110 56340
In post 2023 G7 G6/G7 Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 HEO SEO/HEO Female 44990 42615 34820 34400
In post 2023 HEO SEO/HEO Male 39905 38985 35520 34700
In post 2023 HEO SEO/HEO Unknown 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 SCS level SCS level Female 3535 3370 90000 82390
In post 2023 SCS level SCS level Male 3845 3770 94540 85410
In post 2023 SEO SEO/HEO Female 31920 30415 42720 42140
In post 2023 SEO SEO/HEO Male 30710 30060 43520 42510
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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.
Sex Self reported sex.
"Unknown" accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
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).