Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sex / Ethnicity

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Status	Year	Sex	Ethnicity	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2024	Female	Asian	21625	19765	36510	32480
In post	2024	Female	Black	12130	11480	36430	33980
In post	2024	Female	Mixed	6300	5910	38410	33980
In post	2024	Female	Other ethnicity	1820	1710	39730	34640
In post	2024	Female	Undeclared	7595	6815	37030	32690
In post	2024	Female	Unknown	41670	38890	35280	30210
In post	2024	Female	White	204930	186495	37630	32680
In post	2024	Male	Asian	17765	17300	37240	32960
In post	2024	Male	Black	7680	7525	37150	33980
In post	2024	Male	Mixed	4360	4260	40740	35840
In post	2024	Male	Other ethnicity	1575	1535	41850	36300
In post	2024	Male	Undeclared	11185	10680	40810	36280
In post	2024	Male	Unknown	41205	40200	37280	32570
In post	2024	Male	White	162980	157540	40650	35710
In post	2024	Unknown	Asian	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2024	Unknown	Black	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2024	Unknown	Mixed	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2024	Unknown	Other ethnicity	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2024	Unknown	Unknown	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2024	Unknown	White	5	5	[c]	[c]

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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).
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).