Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

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

Status Year Sex Responsibility_level_grouped Ethnicity Responsibility_level_ungrouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Asian AA 295 240 22390 23000
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Asian AO 4750 3990 23510 22520
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Black AA 260 235 23940 23500
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Black AO 2240 2015 25110 25480
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Mixed AA 115 100 22470 23230
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Mixed AO 1080 955 24440 22520
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Other ethnicity AA 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Other ethnicity AO 260 230 24460 23700
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Undeclared AA 135 115 21670 21380
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Undeclared AO 1845 1555 23270 22220
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Unknown AA 2130 1895 22440 22520
In post 2023 Female AA/AO Unknown AO 11465 10320 23980 22520
In post 2023 Female AA/AO White AA 6180 5265 21910 22180
In post 2023 Female AA/AO White AO 45630 39055 23560 22400
In post 2023 Female EO Asian EO 5920 5325 29420 28220
In post 2023 Female EO Black EO 3430 3215 30400 30410
In post 2023 Female EO Mixed EO 1395 1290 29220 28120
In post 2023 Female EO Other ethnicity EO 395 365 29870 29660
In post 2023 Female EO Undeclared EO 2330 2045 29200 28120
In post 2023 Female EO Unknown EO 9295 8730 28750 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 2023-07-29, 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.
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).