Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

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 2024 Female Asian AA/AO 5280 4460 25310 24280
In post 2024 Female Asian EO 6685 6030 30890 29630
In post 2024 Female Asian G6/G7 2575 2490 62790 60220
In post 2024 Female Asian SCS level 185 175 99440 89890
In post 2024 Female Asian SEO/HEO 6090 5865 40190 39790
In post 2024 Female Asian Unknown 805 745 30300 28350
In post 2024 Female Black AA/AO 2755 2495 27080 27000
In post 2024 Female Black EO 3905 3655 31810 32260
In post 2024 Female Black G6/G7 1145 1125 61960 59720
In post 2024 Female Black SCS level 60 55 96390 88400
In post 2024 Female Black SEO/HEO 3295 3225 40760 40400
In post 2024 Female Black Unknown 975 920 33100 31580
In post 2024 Female Mixed AA/AO 1265 1135 26390 24560
In post 2024 Female Mixed EO 1565 1450 30740 29500
In post 2024 Female Mixed G6/G7 975 930 62740 60330
In post 2024 Female Mixed SCS level 90 85 90630 84090
In post 2024 Female Mixed SEO/HEO 1820 1765 39900 39210
In post 2024 Female Mixed Unknown 585 545 31950 30210
In post 2024 Female Other ethnicity AA/AO 325 295 26540 25630
In post 2024 Female Other ethnicity EO 495 460 31250 30920
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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.
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).