Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sex / Parent_department / Sexual_orientation / Responsibility_level_ungrouped

Status Year Sex Parent_department Sexual_orientation Responsibility_level_ungrouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Female Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight AO 915 840 23180 22870
In post 2023 Female Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight EO 1085 1010 28420 28200
In post 2023 Female Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight G6 470 425 69200 67600
In post 2023 Female Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight G7 1870 1715 55430 54100
In post 2023 Female Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight HEO 430 410 34260 33300
In post 2023 Female Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight SCS level 145 135 88820 84930
In post 2023 Female Attorney General’s Departments Heterosexual / straight SEO 355 340 40250 40000
In post 2023 Female Attorney General’s Departments LGBO AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Attorney General’s Departments LGBO AO 45 45 22800 22870
In post 2023 Female Attorney General’s Departments LGBO EO 80 80 28090 27760
In post 2023 Female Attorney General’s Departments LGBO G6 30 25 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Attorney General’s Departments LGBO G7 65 60 55370 54100
In post 2023 Female Attorney General’s Departments LGBO HEO 30 30 36590 32660
In post 2023 Female Attorney General’s Departments LGBO SCS level 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Attorney General’s Departments LGBO SEO 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Attorney General’s Departments Undeclared AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female Attorney General’s Departments Undeclared AO 45 45 23470 24280
In post 2023 Female Attorney General’s Departments Undeclared EO 55 50 28730 28300
In post 2023 Female Attorney General’s Departments Undeclared G6 45 40 69620 67730
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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 2023-07-28, 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_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.
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).