Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

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

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Status Year Sex Ethnicity Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Female Asian AA/AO 5045 4230 23440 22520
In post 2023 Female Asian EO 5920 5325 29420 28220
In post 2023 Female Asian G6/G7 2355 2270 60000 57970
In post 2023 Female Asian SCS level 175 170 93650 85200
In post 2023 Female Asian SEO/HEO 5440 5245 38300 37720
In post 2023 Female Asian Unknown 675 625 29720 27640
In post 2023 Female Black AA/AO 2500 2250 24990 25340
In post 2023 Female Black EO 3430 3215 30400 30410
In post 2023 Female Black G6/G7 1030 1015 59320 57120
In post 2023 Female Black SCS level 65 65 91760 83000
In post 2023 Female Black SEO/HEO 2950 2895 38880 38850
In post 2023 Female Black Unknown 925 880 31990 29300
In post 2023 Female Mixed AA/AO 1190 1060 24260 22520
In post 2023 Female Mixed EO 1395 1290 29220 28120
In post 2023 Female Mixed G6/G7 900 855 59890 57970
In post 2023 Female Mixed SCS level 80 75 86090 80970
In post 2023 Female Mixed SEO/HEO 1650 1600 37890 37300
In post 2023 Female Mixed Unknown 520 490 30800 29050
In post 2023 Female Other ethnicity AA/AO 275 245 24350 23700
In post 2023 Female Other ethnicity EO 395 365 29870 29660
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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.
Sex Self reported sex.
"Unknown" accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
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).