Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

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

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Status Year Sexual_orientation Responsibility_level_grouped Sex Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Female 47990 41365 23410 22400
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Male 37600 36035 25400 22520
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight EO Female 49510 44565 28720 28120
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight EO Male 35030 33800 29470 28120
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight EO Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight G6/G7 Female 27205 25850 60140 57970
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight G6/G7 Male 26085 25575 61080 59180
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight G6/G7 Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight SCS level Female 2635 2510 89450 82060
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight SCS level Male 2715 2665 94380 85470
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight SCS level Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight SEO/HEO Female 54990 52085 38130 37590
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight SEO/HEO Male 47695 46660 39130 38470
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight SEO/HEO Unknown 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight Unknown Female 12835 11900 31070 29050
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight Unknown Male 4900 4715 34980 30840
In post 2023 Heterosexual / straight Unknown Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 LGBO AA/AO Female 3210 3045 25040 23100
In post 2023 LGBO AA/AO Male 2445 2360 24140 22520
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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.
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).