Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

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Status Year Responsibility_level_ungrouped Ethnicity Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2024 AA Asian AA/AO 640 575 25110 25630
In post 2024 AA Black AA/AO 625 585 26940 26180
In post 2024 AA Mixed AA/AO 210 195 25470 25630
In post 2024 AA Other ethnicity AA/AO 65 60 25630 25630
In post 2024 AA Undeclared AA/AO 325 285 24070 23990
In post 2024 AA Unknown AA/AO 3785 3485 25000 24970
In post 2024 AA White AA/AO 11665 10425 24530 24450
In post 2024 AO Asian AA/AO 8885 7930 25810 24280
In post 2024 AO Black AA/AO 4430 4150 28630 27220
In post 2024 AO Mixed AA/AO 2040 1890 27400 24800
In post 2024 AO Other ethnicity AA/AO 575 535 27680 26630
In post 2024 AO Undeclared AA/AO 3705 3320 26370 24280
In post 2024 AO Unknown AA/AO 21635 20225 26510 24800
In post 2024 AO White AA/AO 77060 69380 26720 24280
In post 2024 EO Asian EO 12130 11350 30780 29500
In post 2024 EO Black EO 5975 5680 31790 32160
In post 2024 EO Mixed EO 2520 2375 30970 29500
In post 2024 EO Other ethnicity EO 865 820 31310 30720
In post 2024 EO Undeclared EO 5105 4660 31100 29500
In post 2024 EO Unknown EO 21515 20660 30500 29500
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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 2024-07-24

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.
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).